Also the study documents produced by the various ecumenical dialogues have great relevance. Such texts cannot be ignored, because they are an important, though temporary, fruit of the common reflection matured throughout the years. ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/temporary-fruits-of-ecumenical-reflection.html/feed 24 http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-175.html http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-175.html#comments Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:28:25 +0000 Brother André Marie http://catholicism.org/?p=25598 The true religion is not a book. It is a communion — a mystical body — by which man is united to God and therefore made holy, beginning in this life a relationship that is meant to continue for all eternity in beatitude. Yes, the true faith is a revelation from on high. Yes, a ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-175.html/feed 0 http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-173.html http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-173.html#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:33:16 +0000 Brother André Marie http://catholicism.org/?p=25371 The Mystery of the Immaculate Conception is not something on the borderlands of the Christian religion; rather, it stands front and center in the true Faith. This is because the Immaculate Herself is so wrapped up in the divine decree for the redemption of men, that her perpetual sinlessness and fulness of grace form a ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-173.html/feed 0 http://catholicism.org/the-story-we-live-by-and-the-foundations-of-our-faith-implications-of-the-incarnation-and-of-the-bethlehem-nativity.html http://catholicism.org/the-story-we-live-by-and-the-foundations-of-our-faith-implications-of-the-incarnation-and-of-the-bethlehem-nativity.html#comments Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:34:33 +0000 Dr. Robert Hickson http://catholicism.org/?p=25332 [Originally authored 13 December 2003, the Feast of Sancta Lucia]

At this time of the Christian Feast of the Nativity, when we are also expectantly considering the coming year of 2012 (as was so in 2003) and the pressures of deepening war and religious conflict, we more openly allow ourselves to consider the foundations of things.

Did ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/the-story-we-live-by-and-the-foundations-of-our-faith-implications-of-the-incarnation-and-of-the-bethlehem-nativity.html/feed 0 http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-171.html http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-171.html#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:59:07 +0000 Brother André Marie http://catholicism.org/?p=24957 Some months back, I received a telephone call from a sedevacantist madman who challenged me to a debate on whether Pope Benedict XVI is the pope. This individual should know that debates are not the way we do our apostolate. I have nothing against debating, but we engage in other apostolates that take up our ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-171.html/feed 13 http://catholicism.org/the-king-and-the-lex-orandi.html http://catholicism.org/the-king-and-the-lex-orandi.html#comments Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:14:19 +0000 Brother André Marie http://catholicism.org/?p=24814 Tomorrow is the Feast of Christ the King, the glorious Christian festival instituted by Pope Pius XI to remind the world of the truth taught by his own papal motto: Pax Christi in regno Christi (the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ). There will be no peace among nations without the social reign of ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/the-king-and-the-lex-orandi.html/feed 1 http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-166.html http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-166.html#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:44:40 +0000 Brother André Marie http://catholicism.org/?p=24283 At the end of the Rule of St. Augustine, the Doctor of Grace — who was also a monk and father of monks — enjoins his disciples to observe its precepts “not like slaves under the law, but like freemen established under grace”1. The recent feast of St. Nicholas of Tolentino provides but one of ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-166.html/feed 2 http://catholicism.org/baptism-of-desire-its-origin-and-abandonment-in-the-thought-of-saint-augustine.html http://catholicism.org/baptism-of-desire-its-origin-and-abandonment-in-the-thought-of-saint-augustine.html#comments Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:04:24 +0000 Brian Kelly http://catholicism.org/?p=22523 Perish the thought that a person predestined to eternal life could be allowed to end this life without the sacrament of the mediator. (Saint Augustine)

This article will focus on the question of explicit baptism of desire — as it was understood by most western doctors of the Church from the time of Saint ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/baptism-of-desire-its-origin-and-abandonment-in-the-thought-of-saint-augustine.html/feed 13 http://catholicism.org/remembering-father-feeney.html http://catholicism.org/remembering-father-feeney.html#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:29:38 +0000 Br. Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. http://catholicism.org/?p=22018 During the long years (1942-1978) in which I was privileged to associate with Father Feeney on a daily basis, I kept a record of statements he would make from time to time, in his sermons or lectures, or in ordinary conversation that struck me at that moment as proceeding from a deep mystical realization or ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/remembering-father-feeney.html/feed 0 http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-154.html http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-154.html#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 01:02:45 +0000 Brother André Marie http://catholicism.org/?p=21763 There is a lot of talk about the Pope’s new book. I have not read Volume II of Jesus of Nazareth, so I cannot and will not comment on it. Rather, I will use one short article about the book as a springboard into a purely theological, biblical, and, if you will, “missiological” issue of ... ...Read More »]]> http://catholicism.org/ad-rem-no-154.html/feed 6