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Increase Our Faith - Father Tadeusz Dajczer - from The Gift of Faith
Faith is the acknowledgement of one's own helplessness — the belief that one owns nothing, that everything is a gift. It is the awaiting of all gifts from God....
Debating Amoris Laetitia: A Look Ahead
- Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Catholic Register
It was officially the Jubilee of Mercy, with its attendant graces. But 2016 was more the "Year of Amoris Laetitia" (The Joy of Love).
Remembering a man of peace and conscience
It was officially the Jubilee of Mercy, with its attendant graces. But 2016 was more the "Year of Amoris Laetitia" (The Joy of Love).
Remembering a man of peace and conscience
- The Most Reverend Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. - Catholic Philly
Catholics can take a lesson in the courage to follow a well-formed Christian conscience from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Scorsese's Silence: Many Martyrs — Little Redemption
Catholics can take a lesson in the courage to follow a well-formed Christian conscience from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Scorsese's Silence: Many Martyrs — Little Redemption
- Monica Migliorino Miller -Crisis Magazine
This movie is not about Christian martyrs. It's about Christians who avoid martyrdom.
On the Worst President
This movie is not about Christian martyrs. It's about Christians who avoid martyrdom.
On the Worst President
- Father James V. Schall, S.J. - The Catholic Thing
From the first time I saw Mr. Obama, his First Inaugural, I said to myself, "This is a classical tyrant."
God's holy weapons against Satan, Part 2: The gift of kingship
From the first time I saw Mr. Obama, his First Inaugural, I said to myself, "This is a classical tyrant."
God's holy weapons against Satan, Part 2: The gift of kingship
- Father Robert McTeigue, SJ. - Aleteia
Fifth in a series on spiritual warfare: Jehu and the power of duty
Medical correctness
Fifth in a series on spiritual warfare: Jehu and the power of duty
Medical correctness
- Anthony Daniels - The New Criterion
For the politically correct, nothing is too large or too small to escape their puritanical attention.
The perspective of eternity
For the politically correct, nothing is too large or too small to escape their puritanical attention.
The perspective of eternity
- Father George W. Rutler - From the Pastor
We do not need Einstein to tell us that time is variable, or can "bend."
2nd Sunday in OT
We do not need Einstein to tell us that time is variable, or can "bend."
2nd Sunday in OT
- Father John Horgan - CERC
We have to know who Jesus Christ is in order to know him personally.
Editorials of Interest:
- WATCH: Pope Francis announces his January 2017 prayer intention - YouTube
- Cardinal Gerhard Muller: No "correction" forthcoming - CNS
- The Malta Mess - Catholic Herald
- The Maltese disaster - Catholic World Report
- Fatima visionary to Cardinal: "Final battle between God and Satan will be over marriage and family" -Aleteia
- Abortionist Quits After St. Thomas Aquinas Visits Him in a Dream - NC Register
- Bioethics in 2017 - First Things
- Catholic parents forgive suicide bomber who killed their son in Pakistan - Catholic Herald
- EXCLUSIVE: Killing Africa: Stop Taxpayer Funding of Illegal Abortions in Africa - The Stream
- Francois Fillon could become the face of France's Catholic revival - Spectator
- Italian firm restoring Nativity Church: Like touching heaven - Yahoo News
- More Than 20 Faith Leaders Bless Planned Parenthood's New D.C. Clinic - dcist
- RIP, William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist - Aleteia
- Scientists say your "mind" isn't confined to your brain, or even your body - Quartz
- Higher Education in Hell - Public Discourse
- If You Are Too Triggered by Lessons About the Crucifixion, You Cannot Be a Religious Scholar -National Review
- Rescuing the Word "Hope" and Recovering Its Biblical Meaning - Community in Mission
- Why I'm not afraid to love my husband more than he loves me - For Her
- Christus Apostata: Scorsese's Silence - The Catholic Thing
- Grace Enough - America Magazine
- Shared Communion With Protestants? - Patheos
- YouTube
Join your voice to mine in praying for all who contribute through prayer and fraternal charity to restoring full ecclesial communion in service of the challenges facing humanity.
Cardinal Gerhard Muller: No "correction" forthcoming
Join your voice to mine in praying for all who contribute through prayer and fraternal charity to restoring full ecclesial communion in service of the challenges facing humanity.
Cardinal Gerhard Muller: No "correction" forthcoming
- CNS
The Church is "very far" from a situation in which the pope is in need of "fraternal correction" overAmoris Laetitia, because the Holy Father has not put the faith and Church teaching in danger.
The Malta Mess
The Church is "very far" from a situation in which the pope is in need of "fraternal correction" overAmoris Laetitia, because the Holy Father has not put the faith and Church teaching in danger.
The Malta Mess
- Catholic Herald
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, founded in 1099, is moving through a period of turmoil involving, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Pope Francis, and the Orders two most powerful leaders. The question is: Why?
The Maltese disaster
The Sovereign Military Order of Malta, founded in 1099, is moving through a period of turmoil involving, Cardinal Raymond Burke, Pope Francis, and the Orders two most powerful leaders. The question is: Why?
The Maltese disaster
- Catholic World Report
In my view the Maltese bishops have effectively invited the Catholics entrusted to them (lay faithful and clergy alike!) to commit a number of objectively gravely evil acts.
Fatima visionary to Cardinal: "Final battle between God and Satan will be over marriage and family"
In my view the Maltese bishops have effectively invited the Catholics entrusted to them (lay faithful and clergy alike!) to commit a number of objectively gravely evil acts.
Fatima visionary to Cardinal: "Final battle between God and Satan will be over marriage and family"
- Aleteia
He went, and while he was talking to Padre Pio he had a great mystical experience, in which he experienced, very strongly, the mercy of God. Now he is one of the best priests I know. There you have it. It all began like that.
Abortionist Quits After St. Thomas Aquinas Visits Him in a Dream
He went, and while he was talking to Padre Pio he had a great mystical experience, in which he experienced, very strongly, the mercy of God. Now he is one of the best priests I know. There you have it. It all began like that.
Abortionist Quits After St. Thomas Aquinas Visits Him in a Dream
- NC Register
"These children are the ones you killed with your abortions," said St. Thomas, and Stojan awoke in shock and fear. He decided he would refuse to participate in any more abortions.
Bioethics in 2017
"These children are the ones you killed with your abortions," said St. Thomas, and Stojan awoke in shock and fear. He decided he would refuse to participate in any more abortions.
Bioethics in 2017
- First Things
Do you know what's happening with Assisted Suicide, Futile Care Decisions, Cloning, DNA Altering, Medical Conscience Protections, Animal Testing? No. Well, you may not be interested in the new bioethics, but the new bioethics is interested in you.
Catholic parents forgive suicide bomber who killed their son in Pakistan
Do you know what's happening with Assisted Suicide, Futile Care Decisions, Cloning, DNA Altering, Medical Conscience Protections, Animal Testing? No. Well, you may not be interested in the new bioethics, but the new bioethics is interested in you.
Catholic parents forgive suicide bomber who killed their son in Pakistan
- Catholic Herald
Pakistan's 190 million population is overwhelmingly Islamic, with Christians making up just two percent.
EXCLUSIVE: Killing Africa: Stop Taxpayer Funding of Illegal Abortions in Africa
Pakistan's 190 million population is overwhelmingly Islamic, with Christians making up just two percent.
EXCLUSIVE: Killing Africa: Stop Taxpayer Funding of Illegal Abortions in Africa
- The Stream
Africans overwhelmingly reject abortion, and its presence on the continent is entirely imposed by — and receives funding from — the West.
Francois Fillon could become the face of France's Catholic revival
Africans overwhelmingly reject abortion, and its presence on the continent is entirely imposed by — and receives funding from — the West.
Francois Fillon could become the face of France's Catholic revival
- Spectator
"Since the terrorist attacks, there are people who were no longer practising but are returning little by little to the church. They are returning to the ceremonies because they have a desire to affirm their Christian identity."
Italian firm restoring Nativity Church: Like touching heaven
"Since the terrorist attacks, there are people who were no longer practising but are returning little by little to the church. They are returning to the ceremonies because they have a desire to affirm their Christian identity."
Italian firm restoring Nativity Church: Like touching heaven
- Yahoo News
The Italian firm restoring one of Christianity's holiest sites — the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem — says it's more than halfway finished with the 14 million-euro project.
More Than 20 Faith Leaders Bless Planned Parenthood's New D.C. Clinic
The Italian firm restoring one of Christianity's holiest sites — the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem — says it's more than halfway finished with the 14 million-euro project.
More Than 20 Faith Leaders Bless Planned Parenthood's New D.C. Clinic
- dcist
"In almost every message to our staff, I talk about our doing sacred work," says Dr. Laura Meyers, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. "This confirms the sacredness of the work we do."
RIP, William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist
"In almost every message to our staff, I talk about our doing sacred work," says Dr. Laura Meyers, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington. "This confirms the sacredness of the work we do."
RIP, William Peter Blatty, author of The Exorcist
- Aleteia
The legendary horror writer who penned The Exorcist has passed away at the age of 89.
Scientists say your "mind" isn't confined to your brain, or even your body
The legendary horror writer who penned The Exorcist has passed away at the age of 89.
Scientists say your "mind" isn't confined to your brain, or even your body
- Quartz
Our mind is not simply our perception of experiences, but those experiences themselves.
Higher Education in Hell
Our mind is not simply our perception of experiences, but those experiences themselves.
Higher Education in Hell
- Public Discourse
A politicized education is illiberal by its own inner compulsions. It has almost the hideousness and chaos of hell itself, so inextricably coupled it is with the mire and passions of the passing day.
If You Are Too Triggered by Lessons About the Crucifixion, You Cannot Be a Religious Scholar
A politicized education is illiberal by its own inner compulsions. It has almost the hideousness and chaos of hell itself, so inextricably coupled it is with the mire and passions of the passing day.
If You Are Too Triggered by Lessons About the Crucifixion, You Cannot Be a Religious Scholar
-National Review
Students in a Bible course at the University of Glasgow are being given trigger warnings before being shown images of the crucifixion — and permission to skip those lessons altogether if they are worried they'll feel too uncomfortable.
Rescuing the Word "Hope" and Recovering Its Biblical Meaning
Students in a Bible course at the University of Glasgow are being given trigger warnings before being shown images of the crucifixion — and permission to skip those lessons altogether if they are worried they'll feel too uncomfortable.
Rescuing the Word "Hope" and Recovering Its Biblical Meaning
- Community in Mission
The theological virtue of hope is confident expectation — but not possession.
Why I'm not afraid to love my husband more than he loves me
The theological virtue of hope is confident expectation — but not possession.
Why I'm not afraid to love my husband more than he loves me
- For Her
Loving my husband without expectations attached isn't weak or stupid. It's brave and rewarding.
Christus Apostata: Scorsese's Silence
Loving my husband without expectations attached isn't weak or stupid. It's brave and rewarding.
Christus Apostata: Scorsese's Silence
- The Catholic Thing
Scorsese's Silence is not a Christian film by a Catholic filmmaker, but a justification of faithlessness: apostasy becomes an act of Christian charity when it saves lives, just as martyrdom becomes almost satanic when it increases persecution.
Grace Enough
Scorsese's Silence is not a Christian film by a Catholic filmmaker, but a justification of faithlessness: apostasy becomes an act of Christian charity when it saves lives, just as martyrdom becomes almost satanic when it increases persecution.
Grace Enough
- America Magazine
Andrew Garfield on the Ignatian journey that led him through Silence.
Shared Communion With Protestants?
Andrew Garfield on the Ignatian journey that led him through Silence.
Shared Communion With Protestants?
- Patheos
Edward Pentin writes here about the possibility that "in special cases" Protestants might be admitted to receive the Body and Blood of Christ at a Catholic Eucharist.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and
St. Justin Martyr, pray for us
Edward Pentin writes here about the possibility that "in special cases" Protestants might be admitted to receive the Body and Blood of Christ at a Catholic Eucharist.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and
St. Justin Martyr, pray for us
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