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The Gospels do not simply tell us stories of people who lived thousands of years ago; they tell us our story, and this Sunday’s Gospel is no different. We encounter a deaf man with a speech impediment living in a pagan land; this man represents each of us. If you are prepared to accept it, you are also Jesus, for His story and His work are largely yours as well. Let’s look at today’s Gospel, remembering that it is our story. I. The PLACE of the Gospel. The text says that Jesus went into the Decapolis region. This was an area of ten Gentile (pagan) cities. While there were some believers living there, most did not believe. In other words, Jesus was in a largely unbelieving region. For us who live in the West, this atmosphere of unbelief describes our culture, too. Notice that Jesus does not...

Most faithful Catholics instinctively know that modern Biblical scholarship is destructive to faith. But why? What are the roots of this crisis? Dr. Scott Hahn joins Crisis Point to explain how modern scholarship was led astray…and how we can get it back on track. Also, he gives practical advice and tools for the average Catholic to read the Bible as it was intended to be read – in the heart of the Church. Links: [embedded content] By Crisis Magazine Crisis Magazine has been America’s leading source for Catholic perspectives on religion, politics, and culture since 1982. Join Our Telegram Group : Salvation & Prosperity  

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ROME – Although trials are supposed to be about the impartial administration of justice, anyone who’s ever watched “Law and Order” knows they’re really about a catfight among the various parties. The system is called “adversarial” precisely because the idea is that such a vigorous contest will, eventually, result in justice. By that standard, let no one say that the Vatican’s current “trial of the century,” featuring fraud and embezzlement charges against a cardinal and nine others over the purchase of real estate in London by the Secretariat of State with money from “Peter’s Pence”, doesn’t deliver. At the core of the trial is a showdown between the presiding judge and a prosecutor, both prominent legal figures on the Roman scene, who last butted heads in a long-running court battle over ...

Earlier this week Vincent Mary Carrasco, O.F.M.Cap., tweeted out a question that lit up Catholic Twitter about something that thankfully had nothing to do with religious exemptions from Covid vaccines or the Latin Mass: This semester I’m taking a class on preaching. Out of curiosity, what are some of your pet peeves when hearing someone preach? — Br Vince Mary OFM 🧢 (@BrVinMary) August 23, 2021 He got a ton of insightful responses. There were some hilarious ones, too. “Don’t use balloons, helium or otherwise,” wrote one respondent. “No balloons please.” Said another: “Don’t tell me to turn to the person next to me and say something. Ever.” I have my own pet peeves, like children used as props in homilies (especially babies at the Midnight Mass—I get the instinct, bu...

The push to substitute “gender identity” or “gender expression” for biological sex has enormous ramifications in terms of law, education, economy, health, medicine, safety, sports, language and culture, as well as in terms of basic anthropology, human dignity, human rights, marriage and family, motherhood and fatherhood, and the cause of women, men, and especially children.  For that reason, Pope Francis has repeatedly, courageously and emphatically spoken out. He has done so not just out of love for the truth, but consistent with his pastoral prioritization for those on the peripheries of existence, especially those who bear the difficult cross of feeling trapped in the biological reality of a body discordant with their psychological self-identification. While emphatically encouragin...

Making judgments is a privilege of persons only. A privilege that is necessary, both to live well on earth and to enter Heaven. There are at least nineteen different kinds of judgment that we should distinguish. I’m sorry I could not find a twentieth, to match the number of digits on our fingers and toes. But nineteen does match the digits of Frodo Baggins, one of my heroes. (I’m sure you remember Frodo of the Nine Fingers, and Gollum of the Eleven.) The importance of the topic wisely assigned to me—judgment—is obvious. For one thing, making judgments is a privilege of persons only. For another thing it is necessary, both to live well on earth and to enter Heaven. I will say one thing about each of these nineteen kinds of judgments. It may not be the most important or m...