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An act of spiritual communion recommended by Archbishop Gomez of Los Angeles, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: “I wish, my Lord, to receive you with the purity, humility, and devotion with which your most holy Mother received you, with the spirit and fervor of the saints.” […]
Source: John Horvat II via returntoorder.orgReprinted with permission. Our reaction to the coronavirus reflects the crisis of our secular godless society. The problem is not the virus—as potentially lethal as it might be. This outbreak is a biological fact, like so many that have plagued humanity over the ages. While […]
Source: Fr. Hugh Barbour, O. Praem, at Catholic Answers At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. -Matt. 4:1 The Sundays of Lent begin with a bang in the intense and powerful scene presented to us in the Gospel lesson […]
Source: catholicgentleman.netReprinted with permission Life is complex. As a husband and father, blogger, podcaster, full-time employee, and full-time graduate student, it often seems like the responsibilities I face continue to multiply endlessly, while the time allotted to accomplish them does not. No sooner do I make progress in one area […]
Source: Catholic Answers via catholic.comReprinted with permission Author: Paul Senz As Christians living in the world, we are called to perform works of mercy, giving of ourselves for the sake of those who have less: feeding the hungry, visiting the imprisoned, clothing the naked. There are even some who feel […]
Source: crisismagazine.comAuthor: Jane StannusReprinted with permission Modern Catholicism needs to re-examine its uneasy relationship with feminism, and there’s no better time than this year’s tragic anniversary of Roe v. Wade. As it turns out, January 22 follows hard on the heels of a new landmark—January 15—for Catholic feminists, namely, the Pope’s unprecedented […]
Author: Michael HichbornPresident: Lepanto InsitituteReprinted with permission My 14-year-old daughter is a member of a local homeschool co-op, and this year the co-op hired a biology teacher to teach it to the high school kids. Everything about the class was fine until this week, when the parents all got an […]
Source: crisismagazine.comReprinted with permission Author: Anthony EsolenImage: amgreatness.com Text-to-Speech audio version. Voiced by Amazon Polly As the plague in Europe had its occasional years of acute virulence, so in the United States the election season is upon us again. And as the plague arrived in 1348 and would not be eliminated […]
Source: catholicgentleman.netAuthor: Peter C. Kleponis, Ph.D.Reprinted with permission. Tom was noticeably upset as he described his frustration with pornography use. It seemed that every day at work he would end up going online and viewing pornography. No matter what he tried, he always seemed to fall into the same pattern. […]
Source: Catholicism Pure & Simple on catholicismpureReprinted with permission Posted on February 14, 2020 by Catholicism Pure & Simple Saint Valentine, officially known as Saint Valentine of Rome, is a third-century Roman saint widely celebrated on February 14 and commonly associated with “courtly love.” Although not much of St. Valentine’s life is reliably […]
This column first appeared on the website The Catholic Thing (www.thecatholicthing.org). Copyright 2020. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. Over the past eighteen months, we’ve heard a great deal about the need for lay activism and lay collaboration in the management of Church affairs. I’m all for it. Such action items are, […]
Source: The Catholic GentlemanUsed with permission. Will you make it through this article? You have been re-programmed in the media-saturated age of consumerism and internet galloping to skim this article. You’re here to grab enough of it to sense a completion after reading, perhaps gaining a sense of gained knowledge, […]