Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - These words should look familiar: I believe in one God, The Father almighty Maker of heaven and earth, Of all things visible and invisible... the placement of that profession at the very start of the Nicene Creed should be enough to drive home the message. The Christian faith rejects the post-Cartesian conceit that everything real can be seen and felt, counted and measured. What we know, what we believe, and what we profess are not confined to what we can quantify... Love is a reality, for instance, as is pain. They are not visible. But we can see their effects, and so we know that in some cases, at least, what is invisible drives what is visible.

By Kate Quiñones, CNA Staff - The Catholic Church honors St. Augustine of Hippo, an early Church Father, doctor of the Church, and foundational theologian, on Aug. 28... Augustine was brought up as a Christian in his early childhood but drifted from the Church, fathering a child out of wedlock and falling into the heresy of Manichaeism. His mother, Monica, a woman of deep faith who was later canonized herself, never stopped praying for his return to the Church.

By Nate Guyear, Catholic Exchange - Several weeks ago, I was thinking about the sacraments being an outward sign of grace.  Then, I realized that Jesus, the eternal Word made flesh, is an outward sign of grace—a sacrament.  In fact, theologians refer to Him as the Primordial Sacrament, the first Sacrament from whom all the other sacraments flow.  The One who is invisible grace assumed a human nature to make grace visible, to save us from our sins, and to sanctify us (see CCC 774-776).

By Jules Gomes, The Stream - Catholics are bitterly divided over the issue of ecumenical unity with Protestants... Vatican II “embraced a novel doctrine in order to enable Ecumenism, the effort to procure ‘Christian unity’ with Orthodox and Protestant sects in some way other than by requiring Protestants to convert to Catholicism,” wrote Monsignor Joseph Fenton, who served on the Pontifical Theology Commission in preparation for Vatican II.