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• Divine Mercy Message: “Jesus, I Trust in You”

  

  by Kathryn Marcellino, OCDS The good news and the bad news: We are in a precarious position here on earth. There is something to be gained or lost and that is... Read more

  Posted on 12 April 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Seven Last Words of Jesus

  

  For centuries these words have been built into various forms of devotion for the consideration and consolation of the Christian people. Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Face of Jesus

  

  by J. Diéguez “May I seek your face, may I learn to find it and to show it to others. May I know how to discover you in the ordinary happenings of my life.” An... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Church Will Become Small

  

  by CARDINAL JOSEPH RATZINGER* The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning. She will no longer be able to inhabit... Read more

  Posted on 16 March 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Mystery of the Mass

  

  Few things are more frequently given as evidence for the Catholic Church being on the ropes of history than Mass attendance for young people. Read more

  Posted on 10 March 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Three False Christs: The Myth, the Mortal, and the Gur

  

  by Carl E. Olson Albert Schweitzer, in the opening pages of his famous and influential 1906 book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, wrote, “And so each... Read more

  Posted on 01 March 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Bad Dreamer

  

  The Bad Dreamer by FATHER GEORGE WILLIAM RUTLER In the vault of modern political oratory is a speech of one senator in the 1960′s quoting George Bernard... Read more

  Posted on 22 February 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Obvious Truth of Purgatory

  

  by POPE BENEDICT XVI Today people have become used to thinking: what is sin? God is great, he knows us, so sin does not count; in the end God will be kind to... Read more

  Posted on 16 February 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• “If You Wish, You Can Make Me Clean.”

  

  A Scriptural Reflection on the Readings for Sunday, February 12, 2012, the Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time by Carl E. Olson Readings: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46; Ps... Read more

  Posted on 11 February 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Thread for Weaving Joy

  

  by ARCHBISHOP CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F.M. CAP. The great French Jesuit Henri de Lubac once wrote, “Suffering is the thread from which the stuff of joy is woven.... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Vulgarity, Vengeance and Jerry Sandusky

  

  by ANTHONY ESOLEN Why the disgust with Sandusky? “… now that people have lost the sense of sin, when someone breaks one of the few moral laws they still... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• God’s Law and Our Happiness

  

  by EDWARD SRI Why does God give the moral law? Why does any good father issue laws? Is he merely testing his child’s obedience? Is he simply exercising power an... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2012 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Midnight in Paris and the Pull of Nostalgia

  

  by RUSSELL D. MOORE If the opening chapters of the Book of Ecclesiastes were to take on flesh, the result would be something like Woody Allen. And now the... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The Atheists’ Gift to Christmas

  

  By Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein Pray for an atheist — and thank him for making your holiday season more spiritually significant. The atheist Grinches who... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• If You Want to Be a Good Person, It Does Matter What You Believe

  

  By Rev. Robert Barron A team of sociologists, led by Catholic University professor William D’Antonio, recently published a survey that has gotten quite a bit... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• The End of Advent

  

  Christmas has devoured Advent, gobbled it up with the turkey giblets and the goblets of seasonal ale. Every secularized holiday, of course, tends to lose the... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A Catholic Needs to Know …

  

  FEATURED ARTICLE Joseph Bottum’s “End of Advent” first appeared online in 2007. FIRST THINGS has published it every year since. This year, THE FAITH EXPLORER... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Featured Article: The New Mass Translation: Just Going Through the Motions?

  Coming from Italy, Stefano knew football very well – but his football was soccer! So when he first visited the USA and our family took him to a Chicago Bears... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• A CATHOLIC NEEDS TO KNOW … Our Weekly Compendium Of...

  Our weekly compendium of news, catechisis, commentary and book excerpts that are “must-reads” for the Catholic faithful Faithful leadership - Archbishop... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY

• Being Human in an Age of Unbelief

  

  ARCHBISHOP CHARLES J. CHAPUT, O.F. M. CAP. Philadelphia’s new archbishop speaks at the University of Pennsylvania and lays out a comprehensive moral vision for... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2011 RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY