Catholic Church

By L. Brent Bozell III and Tim Graham, CNSNews - Shortly after the tragic sight of Notre Dame Cathedral going up in flames in Paris, as crowds watched and sang "Ave Maria," historian Victor Davis Hanson put our modern times in perspective… He told Fox News: "it's going to be very hard in our society to ever build a cathedral again, much less to repair them, because we don't believe in what they represented. And it's ironic, because we don't like the past. We are at war with the past. We tear down monuments. We don't build cathedrals. We erase names."

By Alan Scott, Catholic Exchange - The only thing that can ever give us true fulfillment is a relationship with God… Why do I know this? Because I have spent many years trying to find fulfillment where it doesn’t exist. And I have met many people throughout my life also trying to find their fulfillment through relationships, hobbies, causes, and even addictions. And if you ask them if they’re truly happy and fulfilled, the true answer is always, without fail, ‘no’…

By Fr. Romano Guardini (1885 – 1968), The Catholic Thing - The days between Christ’s Resurrection and his return to the Father are full of mystery. If we accept them, as we should, not as a legend, but as a vital part of our faith, then we must ask what they mean in the life of the Lord, and what their significance in our own Christian existence… These are the days between time and eternity. The Lord is still on earth, but his feet are already detached, prepared to depart. Before him unfold the reaches of everlasting light, but he still pauses here in transitoriness.

By Diane Montagna, LifeSiteNews - The extensive fire that tore through the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris on Monday is a sign of the “spiritual conflagration” that has ripped through the Catholic Church in the past fifty years, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has said…. The destruction, he says, is a “symbolic and evocative” sign of “what happened in the life of the Church” in recent decades, as people have “witnessed a conflagration of the Church’s most precious spiritual masterpieces” — her liturgy, faith and moral life, especially among priests.