Catholic Church

Msgr. Charles Pope - As I walk or drive through my Capitol Hill neighborhood here in Washington, D.C., I pass by more than twenty churches (all of them Protestant) that have been closed in the past decade. Many of them are grand and prominent buildings. (Click here to see four of them.) Most of the them have been converted to condominiums, likely due to historic preservation norms that seek to retain the exterior appearance of historic buildings.

By Luke Heintschel, Catholic East Texas - The reason the beatitudes will make us happy is because they will make us more like Christ. Being unified with God through Jesus is the ultimate happiness human beings could possibly hope for. The beatitudes describe what kind of person we should be by describing what kind of person Jesus Christ is. Pope Benedict calls the beatitudes, “a sort of veiled interior biography of Jesus, a kind of portrait of his figure.”3

By Dr. W. Ross Blackburn, The Human Life Foundation - Adultery is a gospel matter. How so? Because God made man in His image—male and female (Gen 1:26). Because the union of a husband and a wife is a picture of Christ and the Church (Song of Songs; Eph 5:32-33). Because this is so, our sexual lives bear witness, either truthfully or falsely, about the character of God and His relationship to His Church. Faithful marriage says one thing. Adultery says another.

Michelle Arnold, Catholic Answers - What’s the difference between Advent and Lent?... Both seasons are about conversion of heart, both are penitential in nature, and both are observed in hopeful expectation of a foundational event in the life of Christ—his birth and his resurrection. True, Lent also comes with mandatory fasting and abstinence regulations… so is Advent just a “Lent lite”?