The Little Soul of St. Martin de Porres
St. Martin de Porres should also remind us of the same stuff that St. Thérèse of Lisieux does, which is that love is best lived when we are smallest.
St. Martin de Porres should also remind us of the same stuff that St. Thérèse of Lisieux does, which is that love is best lived when we are smallest.
It isn’t financial bankruptcy; it’s cultural bankruptcy. This line from Mayor Chuck Reed of San Jose, California hits a point …
I think Socrates had a rule, and I believe it went something like this: One can never write anything that …
From out of one of the worst Papacies in the history of the Church comes today’s great saint, without whom …
The following may be a bit of tough talk. I have noted with some interest the responses of many to …
What Mother Teresa saw, and what drove St. Vincent de Paul, was Christ in the poor. These two were not social experimenters.
Just after the inauguration for President Barack Obama, Robert George and several of his friends started a website called Moral Accountability. They wanted to show the Catholics and Evangelicals who voted for Obama that there are consequences to their actions.
Let me share two revelations I received recently by way of listening. The first is that community organizers are not the Devil. The second is another reason why the liberal Catholic thing is dying.
The third atheist just doesn’t want to be told what to do… ever, much less by a book as ancient as the Bible. But of course none of these answers or objections have anything to do with whether God exists.
The glimmer of new life in labor is the great new good we have before us, the chance to make even the dreariest of tasks, and I’ve had a
few in my day, become moments of shook foil full of God’s grandeur.
The right kind of teaching is not the sum total of Catholic authenticity. Indeed, crucial to that authenticity and it seems more important in this day and age is my obedience to the Church.
Today the Feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great provides for the very important lesson that there is a grand difference between justice and charity and that what you might think is mercy is actually justice.
Imagine a slaughter of over 1,200 people in two days, almost 200 hundred of them Catholic priests. Imagine a slaughter …
Catholic social doctrine does contain teaching that a Catholic is requred to hold. Refusing to accept it would constitute dissent from Catholic teaching, and I’m sure I do not need to tell my conservative friends the damage that cafeteria Catholicism does to the Church.
World Youth Day comes at an important time in the West as our societies seem to crumble around us with violence. It comes to show us that these young people are not entirely lost, this generation is not at sea bereft of hope.