Catholic Church

By Most Rev. Joseph Stricklnad, The Wanderer - People are searching for true happiness. St. Augustine, in his Confessions, wrote, “The happy life is this — to rejoice to you, in you, and for you. That is it! And there is no other. But those who think there is another follow after other joys, and not the true one.”… People want to be free. But the only freedom which will truly satisfy is the authentic freedom which comes from God alone; from choosing what is true, and good and noble and beautiful…. Both the desire for happiness and the desire for freedom are a natural and supernatural longing.

By John Horvat II, Return to Order - No one likes to say it, but what triggers coronaphobia is the Hobbesian fear of death that so haunts the modern mind. Each person sees in a coronavirus death his or her possible death. This paranoiac fear causes demands that every possible means be employed against this remote threat even if they appear excessive. This desperate drama creates conditions in which people will even give up rights and liberties to avoid catching the virus.

By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - when Catholics fail to live their faith courageously, to express that faith in the public square, and to transmit that faith to the next generation, there are very real and very grave practical consequences… Unfortunately, our ideological opponents are masters at covering up the misery that their doctrines have wrought, instead painting a whitewashed picture of unfettered “freedom” and “autonomy.” Furthermore, believing Christians are told that they must not “impose” their beliefs on others, but rather embrace “tolerance”; we are told “pluralism” is a de facto good, regardless of the particular beliefs we are told we must tolerate.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - True gratitude is a grace, or gift, from God. It proceeds from a humble and transformed heart. We do not render thanks merely because it is polite or expected, or because God commands it but because it flows naturally from a profound experience of gratitude. The “command” of Scripture to give thanks is not a moral cliché but a truth and a description of what flows from a transformed heart.