Our culture is one that enshrines the dishonorable. In the place of statesmen, we honor stooges and scoundrels; in the place of religious and philosophical truth, moral goodness, and genuine artistic beauty, we exalt overpaid athletes, morally bankrupt Hollywood celebrities, … Continue reading
Tom Nash, Catholic Answers: In a recent article that has received a lot of attention online, Protestant apologist Brian Culliton argues that a close reading of the early Church Fathers illustrates they didn’t believe in the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The … Continue reading
We have entered into the drama of Holy Week. As the events of these days are each momentous, there is too little time, especially during the Triduum, to confront each of them as they are presented to us by Holy … Continue reading
The experience is probably a common one. You find yourself out in public and see a person from the back or side and say to yourself, “Hey, that’s Mike! (or Sarah, Ted, Mary, etc.),” only to discover when the person … Continue reading
From…. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH Letter Placuit Deo To the Bishops of the Catholic Church On Certain Aspects of Christian Salvation V. Salvation in the Church, Body of Christ 12. The place where we receive the salvation brought … Continue reading
There is a popular old Protestant hymn by Charles Crozat Converse that readers may have heard: “What a Friend We Have in Jesus.” The hymn dates from 1868, but the words were borrowed from an 1855 poem called “Pray Without … Continue reading
Though it is not a defined dogma, the future conversion of the Jewish nation to the Faith is a common teaching of the Fathers and Doctors, inferred directly from Holy Scripture. This mass conversion (which need not be absolutely total) … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Father James V. Schall: The first lines of Belloc’s 1936 book, The Characters of the Reformation, are these: “The break-up of united western Christendom with the coming of the Reformation was by far the most important thing in history … Continue reading
The Holy Father has ordered his letter to the Argentine bishops regarding their permissive interpretation of Amoris Laetitia to be published in the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, at the same time raising the status of that private communication to the level of an “Apostolic … Continue reading
Muslims and Mormons, it is fairly well known, have a very carnal eschatology. The paradise of the Muslims has rivers of wine (a beverage forbidden to them on earth), along with rivers of milk and clarified honey. Each man will … Continue reading
Our beloved mentor, Brother Francis, used to remind us often of the importance of purpose. One way he did this was to tell the story, related in various ascetical treatises on the religious life, of the monk who used to … Continue reading
Fatima Perspectives, Christopher Ferrara: [Excerpt] The same process of correction must be applied to the many problematical statements in the documents of Vatican II, a Council whose ambiguous “pastoral” texts are unlike those of any other Council in the history … Continue reading
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, knew that His disciples would experience great sorrow — “Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall weep and lament…” — when He ascended into heaven, leaving them behind to “Go into the whole world … Continue reading
An evil and adulterous generation seeketh a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet (Matthew 12:39). Let us see how Our Lord uses the story of Jonas to refute some of … Continue reading
If the question strikes the reader as strange, it should. But it should do so for only one reason, namely, because it implies that nasty modern habit of opposing things that are in no way opposed. It is a false … Continue reading
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