Jeanie Hannaman

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - Søren Kierkegaard once compared Socrates and Christ by noting that while Socrates claimed to be a “midwife” of truth, midwifing his students to give birth to the truth inside themselves – which is what we human teachers are supposed to be and do – Christ is “the Truth.” In His teaching, there is a dramatic unity between the teaching and the teacher. Christ is the heart of what is being taught. ......

By Father Nicola Bux, EWTN News - On Feb. 27, Vatican News published an article headlined: ‘Fiducia Supplicans,’ Non-liturgical Blessings and Pope Benedict’s Distinction... The aim of the article was to assert that distinguishing between rituals inserted into liturgical books and pastoral or spontaneous prayers is the same criterion now being used to admit the possibility of blessing irregular couples... The article juxtaposes the recent Declaration with some passages from the Vatican instruction Ardens Felicitatis, promulgated by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ....

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The first reading today contains the Ten Commandments and thereby communicates a brief but sweeping summary of the Christian and Biblical moral vision. Now, there is a tendency to reduce the Christian moral vision merely to a set of rules. And it is a sad fact that the Catholic Church is often identified by many more for her rules than anything else. ....