Catholic Church

By Fr Richard Heilman, Roman Catholic Man - Please correct me if I am wrong, but I see we are losing the battle for souls because we are choosing not to fight. Whether it had been rumbling for ten years or one hundred years or one thousand years, the volcanic eruption of a far left secular liberalism with its pacifist ideology occurred in the 1960s, in the culture and in our Church... For these past 50+ years, the calculation has been that we only need to be nice, and that this niceness alone will soothe the savage beast.

By Paul Krause, Crisis Magazine - “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Humans are mimetic creatures: we learn by images and imitation. This is nothing new. Aristotle identified it, Saint Thomas Aquinas built from it, and René Girard pioneered his grand theory of violence and the sacred from it. As Christianity declines, the human impulse for transcendence and the yearning for unity, solidarity, and community remain, but we are now seeing a full-throated return of thyia in all its (un)holy horror and terror.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - As a kind of follow-up from yesterday’s Gospel about the workers in the vineyard, we do well to examine. a kind of “mathematics of the Kingdom of God.” As noted yesterday, be very, very careful before you ask God to be fair. If God were fair, we're all in big trouble. What we need most from God now is that he be merciful. And, having experienced God’s mercy he calls us to be merciful. Mercy is a very important aspect of the mathematics of the Kingdom of God.