Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - A key theme of St. Paul’s Letters to Timothy and Titus, bishops he appointed to oversee the churches of Ephesus and Crete respectively, is their insistence on sound doctrine. He writes to Titus, “As for you, speak the things that are consistent with sound doctrine …” (Titus 2:1). He tells Timothy that if he passes on this doctrine to others, he “… will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, nourished by the words of faith and sound doctrine that you have followed” (1 Tim 4:6).

By Lisa Bourne, LifeSiteNews - Chaput received the St. Joseph the Worker Medal at a September 12 awards dinner at Malvern Retreat House… “We need those examples, because these are odd days,” Chaput said. “It seems like a hard time for Catholics.”… “It’s easy to feel that so much of what we believe is under attack or gripped by uncertainty,” the archbishop continued. “But I think this is actually a privileged moment, a moment when we get to prove who we really are and what we really believe.”

By Vladimir Mauricio-Perez, Denver Catholic - A recent Pew survey found that two-thirds of Catholics do not believe that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist, but that it is a mere symbol. This serves as a wake-up call for better formation, not assuming that people know the basics of the Catholic faith… To showcase the importance of the Eucharist in the Christian faith through history, we have created a timeline that highlights some of the key moments that prepared the way for the Eucharist in the Old Testament, its institution in the New Testament, and its practice and deeper understanding in subsequent centuries.