Catholic Church

By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Agency - When the U.S. bishops highlighted Communion in their spring meeting, announcing their plans for both a document on the Eucharist and a three-year eucharistic revival, they emphasized that they were responding to a lack of understanding among many Catholics about something that is central to the faith... In other words, they wanted to respond to what they saw as a catechetical crisis.

Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, The Catholic Thing - Cardinal Newman observed in his Apologia pro Vita Sua: “Living movements do not come of committees,” an insight he may have gained from St. Gregory Nazianzen’s attitude: “If I must speak the truth, I feel disposed to shun every conference of bishops; because I never saw a synod brought to a happy issue, nor remedying, but rather increasing, existing evils.” (Ep. 55) And hasn’t every synod of the current pontificate been precisely a living out of Francis’ challenge to the youth in Rio de Janeiro: “Hagan lío!” (“Make a mess!”)?

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Just now I am rereading the Book of Wisdom, or The Wisdom of Solomon, in the Old Testament. This is one of the deuterocanonical books—the second set of books affirmed by the Church as the true word of God. These books, probably owing primarily to their late composition, were not (or not entirely) part of the Hebrew Scriptures, but they were included in the Greek. Indeed, Greek was already the dominant cultural language by the time the Book of Wisdom was written in Alexandria in the first century BC ....

By Mary Cuff, Crisis Magazine - The future of contemplative orders in the Catholic Church is under siege, not by the oft-bemoaned vocations crisis, but by Archbishop Josè Rodrìguez Carballo, the secretary for the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. In 2018, Carballo released Cor Orans, a series of regulations on women’s monastic orders. Cor Orans is the practical implementation of Pope Francis’ 2016 Vultum Dei Quaerere.