Author: S&P
Cardinal Roche’s Welcome Tonic Against the Toxins of Catholic Polarization…
COMMENTARY: The greatest value of ‘The Gardens of God’ is as an occasion for building communion in the Church. At the prayer vigil to launch the Synod on Synodality, St. Peter’s Square was decorated to look like a garden. That prompted me to return to some recent summer reading, The Gardens of God by Cardinal Arthur Roche, prefect of the Dicastery for Divine Worship. I recommend it as a welcome to...
This Sunday, What God’s Invitation Says…
In the days before he died, Jesus wanted us to know we were invited to a big marriage feast in his honor, according to the readings for the 28th Sunday of Ordinary Time Year A. For the last few weeks, and for the remainder of the liturgical year, the Church will present words spoken by Jesus after entering into Jerusalem, as he faced his imminent death. This gives them a high importance and a tell...
Apostolic Exhortation ‘C’est la Confiance’ on Confidence in the Merciful Love of God for the 150th Anniversary of the Birth of St. Thérèse…
1. “C’est la confiance et rien que la confiance qui doit nous conduire à l’Amour”. “It is confidence and nothing but confidence that must lead us to Love”. [1] 2. These striking words of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face say it all. They sum up the genius of her spirituality and would suffice to justify the fact that she has been named a Doctor of the Church. Confidence, “nothing ...
Pope Francis Highlights ‘Little Greatness’ of St. Thérèse of Lisieux in New Apostolic Letter…
“Here we see the importance of her invitation to a holy ‘abandonment,’” he wrote. The message also recalled the great trial of faith the saint experienced during the last year and a half of her life, starting with the first symptoms of tuberculosis, the illness that would eventually take her life at the age of 24. “Her account reveals the heroic nature of her faith, her triumph in spiritual combat...
‘Normal’ hatred, synodal ‘secrecy’, and ‘original language’…
‘Normal’ hatred, synodal ‘secrecy’, and ‘original language’ Skip to content Happy Friday friends, As JD said on Tuesday, this is a very good week not to have a “take” on what is going on in the world. Like everyone else, I have been watching the horror of what is happening in Israel. And like some, I can be upfront about my lack of any worthwhile opinion on what, if anything, can be done to effect...
Cardinal Zen Calls Pope Francis’ ‘Dubia’ Response on Same-Sex Blessings ‘Pastorally Untenable’…
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has criticized some of Pope Francis’ responses to five dubia that he and four other cardinals sent him ahead of the Synod on Synodality, saying among other criticisms that the Pope’s guidance on the blessing of same-sex unions is “pastorally untenable.” In an Oct. 12 statement posted on his website, the bishop emeritus of Hong Kong, who signed the ...
How World War I helped popularize candy bars…
Today’s grocery stores are stocked with a seemingly endless variety of candy bars. This modern-day menagerie of chocolate treats can trace its origins back to World War I, when an increased demand for chocolate rations created a veritable candy bar boom. Chocolate bars were seen as an ideal source of sustenance for soldiers fighting abroad: They provided quick calories, were easy to transport acro...
Synod on Synodality: The Church’s being is Christ, her ecology the Gospel…
By Dr. Jeff Mirus ( bio – articles – email ) | Oct 10, 2023 In reading the early reports of the Synod on Synodality, it is interesting (and somewhat disturbing) to see such a preoccupation with listening and welcoming in the world, with so little attention to the proclamation of the Gospel. What we see so far is an emphasis on togetherness and inclusion, and a de-emphasis on the Gospel...
Who is Blessed Carlo Acutis? 10 things you should know about him, whose feast day is Oct. 12…
Carlo Acutis, a Catholic Italian teenager who died in 2006, was beatified Oct. 10, 2020, in Assisi, Italy. A gamer and computer programmer who loved soccer and the Eucharist, he has become well known throughout the world. Carlo Acutis was born May 3, 1991, in London, where his parents were working. Just a few months later, he moved with his parents, Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, to Milan, Ita...
Confidential Synod on Synodality Documents Posted to Unsecured Vatican Cloud Server…
Confidential synodality synod docs posted to unsecured server Skip to content Confidential records from the Vatican’s October synod on synodality have been posted to an unsecured cloud server in the days since the synodal assembly began this month, with new records added as recently as Thursday. The records include rosters of synodal participants and their working group assignments — along with th...
Synod Files: In October’s big Vatican events, will the pigeons come home to roost?
ROME – When I arrived in Rome a quarter-century ago, I met a veteran monsignor who’d been working in the Vatican for decades by that point, and who told me a story which aptly summed up the psychology of what might loosely be called the place’s “old guard.” The tale – which, frankly, smacks of being apocryphal, although the guy insisted it actually happened – goes like this. When he first began wo...
I urge all Catholic families to watch this movie…..
New Old Movie Review: ‘The Adventures of Robin Hood’ (1938) The legend of Robin Hood has been portrayed many times on big and little screens, but no version has even approached the brilliance of 1938’s The Adventures of Robin Hood. The movie stars some Hollywood legends of its own such as Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian and Errol Flynn in the title role. Dazzling lines of dialogue are delivered...
