The 4 Sins that Cry to Heaven for Vengeance
From St. Peter’s List Listers, according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, there are sins that cry out to heaven. “The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are ‘sins that cry to heaven’: the blood of Abel, the sin of the Sodomites, the cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, the cry of the foreigner, […]
Why Did Christ Humble Himself in the Face of Evil?
From Archdiocese of Washington Earlier this week we read the magnificent hymn from Philippians, which sings of the Humility of Jesus: Have among yourselves the same attitude that is also yours in Christ Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, he […]
What are the Obstacles Between Catholic Men and Christ?
From Integrated Catholic Life As long as we live in the world our life is a constant struggle between love for Christ or giving into lukewarmness, to our passions, or to comfort-seeking, which destroys love. Faithfulness to Christ is forged each day by struggling against what separates us from him, and by an effort to […]
St. Peter Damian
From Our Lady’s Warriors The Life of St. Peter Damian (1007-1072) It appears that whenever Holy Mother Church has had a great need for a special kind of saint for a particular age, God, in His infinite mercy, has never failed to fill that need. And so, in the year 1007 A.D., a boy child […]
The Road to Hell is Paved With Indifference
From Archdiocese of Washington The Gospel from today’s Mass (Tuesday of the 31st week of the year) features the familiar Lucan version of the parable of a certain man (in the Matthew version (Mat 22:2), Jesus calls him a king) who gave a banquet. But when all was prepared and the servants were sent out […]
Ex-Gay Man: ‘Homosexuality is Just Another Human Brokenness’
From LifeSiteNews Dean Bailey, 50, is not afraid to tell anyone he is living proof that ‘sexual orientation’ can in fact be changed. But he prefers to use the word ‘restored’ rather than ‘changed.’ Bailey remembers how from an early age he felt different from other boys. He felt he did not fit in and […]
Consider a Prophetic Interpretation of Reality from the Book of Wisdom
October 27, 2014 by Msgr. Charles Pope from the Archdiocese of Washington website In today’s Office of Readings there is a text from the Book of Wisdom that prophetically interprets the times in which we are living. In the 30 years I have been reading this text in the Breviary, I found that the pieces of […]
Analysis of the Synod on the Family
Raymond Arroyo on The World Over interviews Fr Gerald Murray and Fr Robert Sirico regarding the 2014 Synod on the Family. Below are a number of articles with different people’s take on what happened. George Weigel: An Extraordinary Synod, Indeed Archbishop Chaput on the Synod Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Against Pharisees Synod’s Final Report “Fails to Resolve […]
The Greatest Historical Miracle You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
From Catholic Exchange After Constantine the Great, there were emperors who were heretics and emperors who adhered to Christian orthodoxy. Then there was Julian the Apostate. From the time of Constantine to the French Revolution, he is the only Christian monarch ever to openly reject the faith, according to Catholic historian Warren Carroll. For reasons […]