Jeanie Hannaman

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - What’s wrong with the Vatican statement on the Olympic blasphemy? Nearly everything... In fact the Vatican (deliberately?) missed the essential point. The statement went on to “deplore the offense caused to many Christians and believers of other religions,” and later referred to “allusions ridiculing the religious convictions of many people.”

By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky, Catholic Culture - God destined man in original holiness to be fully “divinized” in glory. (CCC 398) God places the “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” in the Garden of Paradise. The tree is His first covenant, honoring man’s freedom. The Tree of Life sustains the bliss of our First Parents. After the self-destructive fall of Adam and Eve, everlasting life would include unspeakable pain and horror. God’s withdrawal of the Tree of Life mercifully permits death (but only by the hand of God) to limit suffering. We continue to seek the Tree of Life on our terms.

By Catholic World Report, Frank Sheed - Peter, James, and John had been afraid—afraid when they saw Jesus and Moses and Elijah all white and luminous, afraid when the cloud wrapped them round, afraid when the Voice sounded from the cloud. With a touch of his hand and the words “Arise and fear not”, he recalled them to the world they were used to... As they raised their frightened faces, they saw “no one but only Jesus”! He told them to say nothing of what they had seen on the mountain till the Son of Man (still his own phrase for himself, used of him by none of them) should be risen from the dead.