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For Catholics (and for all Christians, really) Christology and Soteriology are necessarily linked. What you believe about who Jesus is will affect what you believe about how salvation works.

So check out Roch Kereszty's Jesus Christ: Fundamentals of Christology. He has chapters on redemption in there and certainly read them but it's also worth reading the chapter on the Christology of the fathers.

In the early church Christological controversies what was at stake in opposing the idea that Jesus was a created divine being (Arianism) or that he wasn't fully human (apollinarianism, monophysitism, monoenergism, and finally monothelitism) was the very coherence of salvation. If Jesus isn't fully God then he's just another creature and how could he save us? If Jesus isn't fully human, if he did not assume and lift up our humanity, then how can we in our humanity be saved?

Also, definitely check out volume 2 of Pope Benedict XVI's Jesus of Nazareth books. Also check out Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter on salvation, Spe Salvi ("Saved in Hope"). That encyclical includes a discussion of the relationship between faith and hope in the new testament and gives a rationale for purgatory.

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Father James Martin is that you?

And yes. There are people who “struggle” with same sex attraction. They may not be able to stop themselves from feeling that attraction entirely, but they resist the desire to turn those attractions into actions.

CCC 2358 The number of men and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies is not negligible. This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. They must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided. These persons are called to fulfill God's will in their lives and, if they are Christians, to unite to the sacrifice of the Lord's Cross the difficulties they may encounter from their condition.

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Maistre's thinking is a common root to many ways to apprehend political philosophy, but could be difficult to contextualize to modern politics... He had both really good and pretty fucked up heritage (e.g. Auguste Comte's atheist positivism)

I would advise for a 'beginner' instead to go for Bernanos (If you can find a translation, I think a compilation of his 'last essays' has been published in the US), and Charles Maurras (Here is an edition of two of his great works, but I can't find english translations of the main pieces, namely his "Enquete sur la monarchie" and "Three political ideas").

Not trying to sell anything, but I 100% recommend reading this book: https://www.amazon.com/First-Thousand-Years-History-Christianity/dp/0300198388 . Check it out at a library if you can, but once you read it you will see that the filioque, while an issue, is one of many that caused separation between the eastern and western Church (Rome and Constantinople). It’s a very complicated history.

I was being a bit tongue and cheek, not looking to argue. But if you’re interested in hearing a more classical perspective on religious vocations, pick up Butler’s book from about 60 years ago. It’s not a universal opinion that you have to “discern a calling” to some vocation.

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https://www.amazon.com/Who-Am-Judge-Responding-Relativism/dp/1621641651

He fought for the church more than any president before and after him. Check out the book “a pope and a president.”

https://www.amazon.com/Pope-President-Ronald-Extraordinary-Century/dp/1610171438/ref=nodl_