Catholic Church

By Diane Montagna, Catholic Herald - The deposit of faith continues to be a supernatural divine gift. But today, the crisis of the Church has entered a new phase: the crisis of the Magisterium. Certainly, the authentic Magisterium, as a supernatural function of the Mystical Body of Christ, exercised and guided invisibly by the Holy Spirit, cannot be in crisis; the voice and action of the Holy Spirit are constant, and the truth towards which it leads us is steadfast and unchanging.

By John-Henry Westen, LifeSiteNews - Bp. Schneider explains that the laity have the right to ask their pastors to be nourished with the milk of sound doctrine, using an analogy from St. Caesarius of Arles, a Church Father. According to St. Caesarius, the laity can petition the hierarchy to transmit the faith to them in the same sense as it was always understood, perhaps addressing bishops with examples of traditional catechisms, such as the Baltimore Catechism. Even so, the faithful can themselves pass on the traditional faith through modern means such as conferences and through the internet.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In my parish for the Year of the Eucharist we are doing many things, one of which is to learn more of the Eucharistic Miracles. Here are some notes and a video I prepared for this topic, the first in a series.

By Kevin Wells, Crisis Magazine - Like a song played in reverse, the soldiers started to learn from the boys. The muscle-bound war combatants came to Boystown as rescuing soldiers, having agreed to do their best to coach up boys who’d been beaten down by the violence of poverty and physical and mental abuse. But they began to see Christ on the cross in these boys. In the boys, they saw Golgotha and resurrection—over and over and over. The soldiers regarded the boys as human stained-glass windows, as souls pouring out rippling, holy light.