Jeanie Hannaman

By Anne Hendershott, Crisis Magazine - Faithful Catholics in today’s modern world know that being a faithful Catholic who truly believes in the truth of the teachings of their Church is going to be viewed as countercultural—or fundamentally weird. This may actually appeal to those in every generation who want to break free from the “normal” and find real meaning in their world.

By LifeSiteNews staff - “The weeds are strangling out the wheat and so much of the world today. The weeds can take over, the weeds can really choke out the good plants of whatever kind, and they suck out the nutrients.” The bishop added that in our times, we have many weeds spreading false messages that cause others to sin... “What Jesus says in that parable is so significant because He says evildoers and those who cause others to sin will be thrown into the fire, and He’s not talking about a bonfire. He’s talking about hell. They will be condemned and burned for eternity because they’ve rejected His message, they’ve rejected the truth,”

By Msgr. Charles Pope - All of the readings in this Sunday’s Mass speak of human desire. In the first reading, the Israelites in the desert are hungry, so are the people by the lakeside with Jesus in the Gospel reading, and in the Epistle, St. Paul warns of deceitful desires. In all these passages, God teaches us that our desires are ultimately directed to Him, who alone can truly satisfy us. Why is this? Because our desires are infinite, and thus a finite world cannot satisfy them.