By DON FIER Last week, a topic was taken up that was immediately addressed in the first chapter of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): man’s capacity to know God by reason alone. It was demonstrated in two basic, commonsense ways that “by natural reason man can know God with certainty, on the basis […]
Meditating Upon The Scourging Of Christ Through Scripture And Art By JAMES MONTI Everything about Lent directs our thoughts toward the Passion of Christ. For Christ Himself has invited us to the Passion, to be with Him in His suffering, to witness with the eyes of the soul what He suffered, to get so close […]
Readings: Josh. 5:9a, 10–12; 2 Cor. 5:17–20; Luke 15:1–3, 11–32 By Fr. ROBERT ALTIER In the Gospel reading today, we hear the beautiful story of the love of a father whose son took half of everything the father owned and squandered it all. The young man came to his senses, only after he had descended […]
By FR. FRANCIS RIPLEY Paragraph seven of the revised rite of Penance insists that “frequent and careful celebration of this sacrament is also very useful as a remedy for venial sins. This is not a mere ritual repetition or psychological exercise, but a serious striving to perfect the grace of Baptism so that, as […]
Vatican Announces Plans For 2028 Church Post-Synodal Assembly: (CNA) — The Vatican announced March 15 that Pope Francis has approved a special ecclesial assembly for October 2028 to evaluate how Catholic communities worldwide have implemented the recently concluded Synod on Synodality recommendations. Mario Cardinal Grech, secretary-general of the synod, detailed the plans in a letter […]
How Do We Get To Know The Truth? By RAYMOND DESOUZA Many people confuse truth with personal opinion, as if our preferences would change reality as we please. In matters involving religion, the assertion that all religions lead to God, regardless of their inner contradictions, is manifestly and demonstrably wrong. It’s as simple as that. […]
By DONALD DeMARCO We are inescapably creatures of the future. This is why we live in hope. We need a reason to get up in the morning. But there are two radically different kinds of hope. It is important that we understand how they are different and how they relate to each other. To the […]
Readings: Ex. 3:1-8a, 13-15; 1 Cor. 10:1-6, 10-12; Luke 13:1-9 By Fr. ROBERT ALTIER In the readings today, we are given a number of warnings that encourage us to live not merely good lives, but productive lives. In the Gospel, Jesus speaks about some people who died tragically in Galilee and in Jerusalem. He asks […]
BY FR. RICHARD BRENTON The Simplicity Of St. Joseph’s Life: A Model For Contemporary Catholics The esteemed convert to Catholicism, St. John Henry Newman once said: “He is Holy Joseph, because according to the opinion of a great number of doctors, he, as well as St. John the Baptist, was sanctified even before he […]
Because of the two astronauts stuck above us since early last June, news stories reported the damage expected to the human body from prolonged time living in nearly weightless, isolated space. Not something that any of our ancestors over the millennia had ever been in a position to experience. The astronauts were being closely monitored […]
