Catholic Church

By K. Albert Little, Patheos - My pastor, and good friend, is well-known for encouraging us to “make Sunday matter.” It’s a bit of a catchphrase of his, and it is catchy. Sundays, he rightly insists, are given unto the Lord. They’re for our rest, and respite, and recollection that we are God’s people. But it’s also an admonition to go out and live our Sunday promises—our Sunday obligations—all week long. To make our Sundays mean something we need to live in the spirit of Sunday throughout the rest of our week.

By Della Hasselle, The New Orleans Advocate - When Archbishop Gregory Aymond heard three stories in one week about children and adults in the New Orleans archdiocese becoming addicted to pornography, he decided to take action... He assembled a team to develop a plan to give Catholic clergy, families and schools the tools to help them talk about the "elephant in the room," according to David Dawson, director of the archdiocese’s Office of Marriage and Family Life.

By Daniel Walters, The Inlander - "The very men who are supposed to be the heroes, by their behavior, are the villains," Daly said. "The very people who are supposed to lead people to Christ are harming it.".. And that's the stance that Daly took in November at the bishop's conference in Baltimore, when he stood up on the floor and condemned some of his fellow bishops for their role in the latest series of abuse scandals, arguing some bishops were morally compromised while others were so obsessed with climbing up the "ecclesiastical escalator" that they'd turned a blind eye to evil and degeneracy.

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative - That ominous Monopoly card and the man peering from behind the bars in the corner of the board echoes in my mind every month when I drive through the South Carolina countryside to celebrate Mass for the inmates at one of our high-security prisons... In this modern age, the towering walls and barred windows of old-fashioned prisons have been exchanged for tall chain link fences and razor wire. Lots of razor wire. Skeins of razor wire. There are security checks, steel doors, bulletproof glass and inside, men who have committed serious crimes.