Catholic Church

By Jane Stannus, Crisis Magazine - However, the glorious reality of the Incarnation is that Jesus Christ is true God and true man. Our Lady is the key to a proper grasp of the Incarnation. Newman says: “Could you express this more emphatically and unequivocally than by declaring that [Christ] was born a man, or that He had a Mother?”… The grace and the glory of Mary, Newman says, “are not for her own sake, but for her Maker’s; and to her is committed the custody of the Incarnation; this is her appointed office—‘A Virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and they shall call His Name Emmanuel’. …Her glories and the devotion paid her proclaim and define the right faith concerning Him as God and man.”

By Philip Kosloski, Aleteia - Jesus said to his apostles, “Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day” (John 6:53).In recent centuries much debate has surrounded those words, but from the beginning Christians took Jesus at his word and believed the Eucharist was truly Jesus’ body and blood, and not just a symbol. Here is a sampling of what various Christian leaders of the first few centuries said about this teaching.

By Christopher Altieri, Catholic Herald - “What I do sense is a certain impatience,” Bishop Scharfenberger told WKBW. “You know, ‘We should have done a lot of things yesterday’ – and I want to do things in a very deliberative way, so that we get it right.”… In point of fact, Bishop Scharfenberger has been quite frank from the very beginning, that he has no specific mandate – no “marching orders”, to use his phrase – for Buffalo. What happened in Buffalo before Bishop Scharfenberger got there is not his fault. The Holy See has not made it any easier for him to take effective responsibility for the crisis.