Author: S&P
If you want to teach the faith, follow the model of the Annunciation…
The progression of sound religious instruction begins with a focus on the nourishment of the student’s soul and culminates with the final end toward heaven. All forms of evangelical practice and catechesis share as their central aim the development of an intimate relationship with Jesus Christ, the former involves an introduction into the God’s plan for salvation and our place within it as reveale...
A Prayer for When You Are Waiting on the Lord
Are you currently in a place of waiting? Perhaps you are waiting for a job, for healing, for restoration in a relationship, or for wisdom to know where you should go next.That place of waiting is a place we are all familiar with. It’s a place we find ourselves in often over the course of our lives. Though it’s a familiar place and one we know well, we can often grow wearing in our wait...
8 Steps to Resolving Conflict in Your Life
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The two commandments of tyranny…
(Image: Clay Banks/Unsplash.com) While away recently for a speaking engagement, I sat down to dinner in a parish hall in the time between Mass and my talk. I chatted affably with a couple at our table until the husband got up to get wine. The wife’s countenance shifted and she seethed, “Why weren’t you wearing a mask in Mass?” Taken off guard, I let out a nervous laugh which she imitated back to m...
The socialists who love talking to conservatives, and the conservatives who love them back…..
“We’re never going to storm the barricades,” Adler-Bell admitted. But if you’re willing to temporarily overlook their politics, this small cadre of leftist podcasters doesn’t look totally unlike the band of dissident right-wing intellectuals that gathered around National Review in the middle of the 20th century. Their focus might not be on electoral strategy per se, but it would be a mistake to wr...
Pope’s Wednesday Audience: The Dying Need Palliative Care and ‘St. Joseph, the Patron of a Good Death,’ Not Euthanasia or Assisted Suicide …
He said: “The so-called ‘feel-good’ culture tries to remove the reality of death, but the coronavirus pandemic has brought it back into focus in a dramatic way. It was terrible: death was everywhere, and so many brothers and sisters have lost loved ones without being able to be near them, and this has made death even harder to accept and process.” The pope explained that Christianity helped believ...
That time Muhammad (didn’t) split the moon…
Apologists for Islam usually say the primary miracle that proves the truth of their religion is the unique literary quality of the Quran. But others offer additional miracles allegedly performed by Muhammad, the founder of Islam. One of the claims I addressed, made in a video put out by Muslim apologist Sheik Uthman, is that Muhammad split the moon in two and that several witnesses, including non-...
What can we do about bad bishops and priests? Among other things, we can become one with Jesus Christ, empty ourselves, and suffer…..
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio – articles – email ) | Feb 08, 2022 In response to my commentary of February 1st (Catholic reinterpretation: From fruitfulness to sterility), more than one reader asked how we can remain in obedient communion with the Church when doctrinal, moral and liturgical deficiencies are permitted or at times even encouraged by so many in ecclesiastical authority. Fortuna...
Benedict XVI Issues Letter on Munich Abuse Report…
‘The victims of sexual abuse have my deepest sympathy and I feel great sorrow for each individual case.’ Editor’s Note: Benedict XVI released a letter on Tuesday in response to the Munich abuse report. Please find the full letter published with permission below. Vatican City, February 6, 2022 Dear Sisters and Brothers, Following the presentation of the report on abuse in the Archdiocese of M...
On My Mind
Stop thinking. My son shares with us what his rowing teammate sitting behind him says to him as they move their shell through the early morning waters of Marina del Ray. Stop thinking. Over the phone after practice he translates: Let yourself be present for the moment; be mindful of your movements but not self-critical. This will help you be more aware of where you are, whom you are with, what is ...
Australian police interrupt Mass to check for mask compliance — local archbishop responds by apologizing to the police…
Parishioners recalled the incident as “troubling” and “confronting.” A Catholic Mass in Perth, Australia, was disrupted when police officers stormed in to check if congregants were wearing masks. The authorities interrupted the liturgy after receiving tips about improper mask behavior in St. Bernadette’s Catholic Church, in Mount Hawthorn. The incident The city of Perth has...
The pope vs. tradition? St. Irenaeus “was well named” for charitably handling questions like this…..
After hearing from certain bishops, the pope decided to tamp down on the liturgy. Whereas his predecessors were fine with two different forms of celebration, the pope now insisted that everyone should celebrate in the same way. The pope’s motives seem to have been good: fostering liturgical unity in the Church and weeding out division among Catholics. But it was instead quickly received as a threa...
