Catholic Church

By Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing - A disturbing 2019 Pew survey found that only a third of Catholics believe that the Eucharist is truly the Body and Blood of Christ... The results of such surveys, of course, depend on what questions were asked and to whom. So, for example, if people were asked, “Do you believe in transubstantiation?” some might have had the same reaction I did when I was challenged recently whether I believed in “impanation.”... What the heck is impanation? I looked it up.

By Robert Royal,  The Catholic Thing - It’s never easy to bring unwelcome truths into the public realm. And it’s become increasingly difficult, for obvious reasons, since the advent of the Internet – to say nothing of the deep divisions we face at the start of this crazed election year. Or equally deep divisions in the Church. So, what light and steadiness can we possibly find at a moment like this in our untimely, ancient Catholic Faith? ...

EWTN: Pope Benedict XVI - Lord Jesus, You who faithfully visit and fulfill with your Presence the Church and the history of men; You who in the miraculous Sacrament of your Body and Blood render us participants in divine Life and allow us a foretaste of the joy of eternal Life; We adore and bless you... Prostrated before You, source and lover of Life, truly present and alive among us, we beg you. ....

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, while serving as a Harvard professor, remarked that the most important decision in the realm of social policy is not made by lawmakers in Washington but by married couples: the decision whether or not to have children. The way young couples answer that question speaks volumes about the health of a society. Do we think of life as a gift to be shared with future generations or as a burden to be born grudgingly?