Catholic Church

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - If I were a Catholic progressive, and someone asked me what to read to understand where the Church stands today, however, this wouldn’t be the text I would press into his hands. And it has nothing to do with liberal or conservative. With all due respect to the Holy Father, it’s all but unreadable. Only those of us who love the Church and are loyal to the pope will get through it, from duty, not intellectual or spiritual interest. And that’s a serious shortcoming for a text addressed not only to Catholics but all people of good will.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Few Churchmen have bequeathed to the world as consistent a body of excellent writing and preaching over the course of their careers as has Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). We are indebted to Ignatius Press for its long-extended determination to make this material available in English. Nonetheless, as is true for any scholar, only a relatively few people are going to sit down and read Ratzinger’s major works.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - On one level “human respect” seems like a good thing. After all, we ought to respect, honor and appreciate one another. What then is meant by the “sin of human respect”? It is that sin wherein we fear man more than God; we are more concerned with what people think of us than what God thinks of us. This is an unholy, sinful fear, and is at the root of many of our sins, both of commission and of omission.