If you are not familiar with the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible by Scott Hahn and Curtis Mitch, you are missing a great tool for understanding our Faith and your Bible. For Matt. 5 they quote Augustine right away and essentially say the OT law given to Moses on Sinai was a lesser law- given to a people who needed threats ("bonds of fear") in order to obey, but Jesus' law is a higher law, for "those ready to be set free by love". Then they add, "The higher precepts are for

Spiritual knowledge comes to us through many sources. Pope Francis underlined this last week when he and many other world religious leaders asked their followers to make friends with people who practice a faith other than their own. The Holy Father cited his long friendship with a Rabbi in his native Argentina whose explanations of various things cast wonderful light on some of our Catholic teachings. A recent special on PBS explained Buddhism for its audience in a way that