Catholic Church

By Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, Denver Catholic - As we approach Holy Week, I am returning to a meditation I have been making in my heart on Jesus’ statement to Pilate, “I came into the world to testify to the truth,” and over the next three days he did just that through his Passion, Death and Resurrection… The Church relives and celebrates Jesus’ testimony to the truth during the Triduum, the three final days of Holy Week known as Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. During these three days, we encounter Jesus in the gift of the Eucharist, his death for us, and his resurrection, in which sin and death are conquered.

By Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Presents - Fr. Mike’s words on how we pick up our cross may come as a relief to many of us. He rejects the “harder is holier” approach, and reminds us that taking up our crosses is ultimately about having more freedom… Christ says “My yoke is easy, and my is burden light” (Matthew 11:30). God has a particular task for each of us, and to pick up our cross means denying what we want for our lives so that we can do God’s will. After all, that is what we were made to do and the only way to truly be free.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Voluntarism is the view that the will overrules the intellect and that truth is something asserted or willed rather than discovered by the intellect and proposed to the will for obedience. Voluntarism holds that something is true because one says it is so… Among the more extreme examples of this today is transgenderism. Although one’s sex is easily determined, most often by sight, some feel free to dismiss this evidence and simply assert that they are something else. If a man states that he is in fact female it is said to be true simply because he asserts it—and all are expected to overlook the obvious evidence to the contrary.