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137: Becoming God (Deification/Theosis), with Fr. James Brent O.P.

Pints With Aquinas

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Is There a Difference Between Eastern and Western Catholic Churches?

I want everyone to know about the maybe it's so deep and so rich that not a lot of people have spent time reflecting upon it. I think a simpler answer to the question is just simply that the preaching in the western church, for the last at least five centuries, has really strongly emphasized our moral obligations. And i've noticed a marked difference, or a lack of scrupulosity in the east, but i see it much more in the west. But if you look at their catechisms, a they do make, they have the ten commandments, they're right there. The passions and the disordered passions and disordered thoughts are defined with reference to the commandments of god

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