God and Man’s Best Friend
I don’t think it is wrong to mourn for a beloved pet, as long as our affection for them helps us to live more simply and grow in love for God and neighbor.
I don’t think it is wrong to mourn for a beloved pet, as long as our affection for them helps us to live more simply and grow in love for God and neighbor.
Our family endured many hardships to attend the traditional Latin Mass. Now it’s being taken away from us.
Our Faith is about swords, not hand-holding. Those swords are first directed at our sins, and then directed at the evils in the world and in our Church.
The modern world has declared that children not only do not need a father or to be fathered but that a woman or multiple women can be a substitute for a father.
It is true that we desperately need good men. Masculinity is a good and necessary gift from God. But we need masculine men, not “high-value men.”
The Holy Spirit is awakening soldiers and has gone out in the back alleys and byways to enlist them.
The solution to the Church’s distress lies right before us. Will spiritual leaders and laity choose to see it—or reject it because of the cost?
I aver that the medieval peasant mindset, much like its Bronze Age predecessor, is one of the new crop of meme ideologies that have so aggressively multiplied in cyberspace over the past few years.
Just when we thought we had blessedly stamped out the cartoon, CCD “Jesus,” a newer, slicker incarnation of this caricature has seeped back into the Catholic Church in the form of “The Chosen”.
We all are frustrated with the crisis in today’s Church, but what can we do about it? Our guest today will answer that question.
What is absent in enthusiasm is a humility before the example of the saints, who never prayed with external display or manic delirium but always with a calm and chastened manner.
Since Valentine’s Day lands on the same day as Ash Wednesday this year, it is an invitation to consider what these two days have in common.
The distribution of ashes in the context of the liturgy points to the deep union of liturgy with all sacramental life, including blessings.
…prayer book next for “Children’s Stations of the Cross.” My answer was an emphatic No. In my book I draw on the beautiful Stations of the Cross we have from…
This Lent, let us prepare in body, mind, and spirit and seek grudging acceptance of a holistically life-giving relationship with the virtue of fasting.
Are traditional Catholics too insular? Do they focus too much on the liturgy at the expense of evangelization and the works of mercy? Our guest today will challenge us with what he says is a “third way” that encompasses the “both/and” of Catholic discipleship.
Fr. Joseph Fessio, S.J. has made available a stream of wise and beautiful books for countless Catholics.
Having consigned reason to that impoverished realm of human experience that can be subjected to controlled experiments and the quantification of their results, we are left with no basis upon which to make moral judgments except for feelings.
St. Paul Miki and his companions rejoiced at the news that they were to die for Christ.
I think I speak for a lot of Catholics when I say that the whole circus surrounding Pope Francis has become wearisome.