Author: S&P
Catholic progressives and the culture war…
Among those in the ultramundane pantheon of communist mega-monsters, Lev Davidovich Bronstein (better known by his Bolshevik nom de guerre, Leon Trotsky) is a more interesting human personality than Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (Joseph Stalin or, in the Roosevelt-Churchill correspondence, “Uncle Joe”). Trotsky actually had ideas, however misshapen, and something vaguely resembling a conscience...
U.S. Bishops vote 222-8 to approve long-awaited document on the Holy Eucharist…
Initially, it was speculated that the document would provide explicit directives on who and who is not eligible to receive the Eucharist. Particularly, it was feared that the bishops would use the document to rebuke Catholic politicians who are in favor of abortion rights. President Joe Biden (D), the second Catholic president of the United States, has publicly supported a right to legal abortion ...
December Scripture Writing Guide (2021)
Scripture writing plans are incredibly simple, yet incredibly effective for helping us read, interpret and absorb the Word of God. Rather than simply letting our eyes pass over a verse and perhaps miss its full meaning, writing Scripture down helps us absorb each word and really think through what the passage before us is saying. Each day in December you’ll have the opportunity to write down...
Learning to Live in Freedom
In the 15th century, European settlers began taking the land of Native Americans here in the U.S. It was three centuries before Native Americans finally gained specific rights and freedoms in our country that gave them the freedom to fully function as native tribes. In the 18th century, slavery among African Americans peaked at four million. Four million people in our country were desperate to hav...
Waiting
They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength (Isaiah 40:31). I have a new car, and I’m still getting used to some of the features. The most disconcerting is when stopped, the vehicle appears to turn off. It gets eerily quiet; I don’t hear the engine idling. But once I put my foot on the gas, the car is engaged and ready to go again. Apparently, this is an energy and gas-savi...
Nicholas V, the first Renaissance pope, was born 624 years ago…
Today in Papal History marks the 624th anniversary of the birth of Pope Nicholas V, the man considered to be the first of the “Renaissance popes”. Portrait of Pope Nicholas V by Peter Paul Rubens (1610)…in case you were in need of some papal side-eye Born as Tommaso Parentucelli, his path to the papacy was a bit unusual, especially for that time. He wasn’t born to one of Rome’s rich or powerful fa...
After Hong Kong, will the Pope abandon Taiwan too?
> Italiano> English> Español> Français> All the articles of Settimo Cielo in English If you want to receive (or go back to receiving) a notification for every new article, click HERE and subscribe to the Newsletter from Settimo Cielo! * Pope Francis, with his silences, has sacrificed Hong Kong on the liberticidal altar of China. But also in Taiwan they are afraid he is abandoni...
New University of Dallas miniseries on EWTN asks the big question: “What am I supposed to do with my life?”…
A new television miniseries premiering today on EWTN examines the question, “What am I supposed to do with my life?” both in terms of the big decisions that can determine life’s course and the smaller-but-no-less important daily choices in our lives as Catholics. The Quest: The Voice of God Within is a new documentary-style series from the University of Dallas that runs as five 30-minute epi...
God Seems Most Present As We Are Climbing Life’s Mountains Alone
The following article first appeared on The Dallas Morning News on November 14, 2021. Every winter while living in Australia, my husband and I enjoyed going to a ministers’ family camp in the magnificent Grampian Mountains with our two children. Afternoons were free, and I usually went hiking with friends during that time. One year, when my friends were ready to hit the trail, I wasn’t feeling wel...
Bishops, demonstrators, and would-be saints: The news from Baltimore…
Hey everybody, Greetings from Baltimore, for today’s USCCB edition of The Tuesday Pillar Post. We are here in Charm City because the U.S. bishops’ conference has begun its first in-person general assembly since November 2019. Consider this kind of a special edition. Below, I’ll walk through the agenda, as a guide to what the bishops will be up to over the next few days. In the room The conference ...
5 items to watch at the U.S. Bishops’ fall meeting…
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is meeting in person for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, and the bishops have many issues to discuss since their virtual June meeting where a debate erupted over the drafting of a document on the Eucharist that addressed worthiness to receive Communion. While many in the media framed that debate as being aimed at Presid...
Vatican News gives boost to Cardinal Mahony’s opposition to U.S. bishops’ document on the Holy Eucharist…
Catholic World News November 15, 2021 » Continue to this story on Vatican News CWN Editor’s Note: The Vatican News service has posted an interview with retired Cardinal Roger Mahony, giving prominent coverage to the cardinal’s view that a document on “Eucharistic coherence,” which will be discussed at this week’s meeting of the American hierarchy, is “totally unnecessary.” Invoking the famil...
