Catholic Church

Bishop Daniel R. Jenky - As Christians we must love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, but as Christians we must also stand up for what we believe and be ready to fight to defend our faith. The days in which we live now require heroic Catholicism, not casual Catholicism. We can no longer be Catholics by accident, but instead be Catholics by conviction.

Deacon Steven D. Greydanus, EWTN News - Isn’t it enough to know the basics of our own faith? Ah, but here’s the thing: Without at least some understanding of the Jewish world to which Jesus came, and from which the Church was born, we’ll have blind spots regarding our own beliefs and practices, including what happens here in the Mass and what God is saying to us in the readings of his holy word that the Church has chosen to be proclaimed to us today.

By Anthony Esolen, American Greatness -The more truly righteous you are, the more painfully do you feel your own inadequacy. The saint is the true realist; the rest of us but live in a fantasyland, where we can pretend we are good enough. For one sort of person, good enough is good enough: for those who sin, who know it, and who will shrug at your sin if you shrug at theirs, so long as the sin poses no great inconvenience to a life of easygoing hedonism. Such people cannot build a nation or a culture, but they can get along well in one that is already built.

By Scott Yenor, First Things - Our modern sexual ecosystem is hostile to marriage and the family. Easy access to pornography, no-fault divorce, and our sexual harassment regime have changed what we expect of men and women. Powerful ideologies stigmatize enduring, life-long marriage as oppressive. Increasingly, young people decide that the sacrifices and duties involved in family life are not worth it. As a result, marriage rates and birth rates have plummeted in this country.