Catholic Church

July 2, 2021

What St. Junipero Serra Shows About Eucharistic Coherence, By Phil Lawler

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - St. Junipero Serra was a man on a mission, in more ways than one. He was obviously driven by a profound faith, and an unquenchable desire to share that faith, to give others the means of achieving salvation. Why did he work so hard? Out of love: love for God, and love for the people he met at all those missions.

July 2, 2021

We Need the Freedom that Built America, by Thomas Griffin

By Thomas Griffin, Crisis Magazine - Aquinas explained that freedom is the ability to choose the good. C.S. Lewis wrote that courage is “the form of every virtue at its testing point.” The temptation to prescribe unhindered liberty (being able to do whatever you want, whenever you want, as long as it makes you happy and you don’t hurt anyone in the process) is a fallacy because it creates cowards out of human beings.

July 2, 2021

Princess Di and the Madness of Crowds, by David Warren

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - It is nearly a quarter-century since Britain’s Princess Diana lived and breathed – the space in which we put one generation... My memory is of a dreadful time: absorbing figurative blows from angry newspaper readers when I failed to join in the spectacle of mourning; then the chaos of a visit to Calcutta (“Kolkata”). This was because Mother Teresa also died, several days later, thus saving me from being eaten.

July 1, 2021

Who Speaks for the Church? by Paul Kengor

By Paul Kengor, Crisis Magazine - It is a surreal document (signed by 60 Catholic Democrats to the U.S. bishops)... In asserting its signers’ unrestricted right to advance abortion as “proud” Catholic Democrats “of the living Catholic tradition,” it quotes none other than Pope John Paul II, who preached the Culture of Life and described abortion as murder, as well as the Second Vatican Council. It boldly lectures the bishops on Catholic teaching and “the real nature of the true Church.”