Catholic Church

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Like Hamlet, we may have known and liked Blase Cardinal Cupich when we were spiritual children, a man whose career was finally made by Pope Francis in what appeared to everyone as a gesture of like appointing like. Since then Cupich has continued to give copious evidence, as head of the archdiocese of Chicago, that he counts himself among those with a confused 1970s attitude toward Catholic renewal—apparently much like the Pope Himself...

By Rev. Patrick J. McHugh, EWTN News - What happens after death--the Judgment--is in a certain sense previewed and acted out in an obscure symbolic way in things that happen now. To put this in another way: every day we experience "judgments," only we do not call them that; nor do we realize that that is what they are: judgments on the way we act and think and like… This is the first way to try to understand the judgment. The Lord has made the world in such a way that we always get what we choose . . . ultimately.

By Todd R. Flanders, First Things - What is said today about ‘fear’ of the Lord in Biblical language is true,” Father Ernest Fortin told his graduate students at Boston College. “It does bear the meanings ‘awe’ and ‘reverence.’ We shouldn’t forget, though, that the word also means fear.” This was the mid-nineties, when John Paul II’s Veritatis Splendor had recently re-presented the Church’s teaching on moral law. There are “intrinsically evil acts” that “radically contradict the good of the person made in his image,” wrote the pope. “They are [evil] always and per se.”