Catholic Church

July 10, 2018

Fr. Dwight Longenecker: Rebuilding Western Civilization: A Tale of Two Monasteries

By Fr. Dwight Longenecker, The Imaginative Conservative - Enchanted by the place, I returned some months later to make my annual retreat. I took with me a rosary that a concerned parishioner gave me, and the Protestant boy that I was, felt dismay at such a Catholic devotion. The worship of Mary was a Catholic heresy! Should I really entertain such a practice? Remembering F.D. Maurice’s dictum that “a man is most often right in what he affirms and wrong in what he denies,” I decided to give it a try.

July 10, 2018

She Almost Aborted Her Baby. But a Pink Rosary and Unexpected Text Message Held Her Back

By K.V. Turley, LifeSiteNews - She called her parents in Romania. Her mother told her to have an abortion. Her parents had little else to say to her. Now she was becoming desperate, increasingly so. Frantically, she searched for help – any help - practical, emotional, anything, but found only indifference. It was clear that she was alone and that everyone around her was pointing to one solution only. Reluctantly, she started to listen to that advice. In the end, she decided to have an abortion....

July 10, 2018

Why Not Go on a Pilgrimage?

By John Paul Meenan, Crisis Magazine - Just as the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, we might say that the first step on the road to sanctity is the realization that we are in exile, strangers and sojourners, knowing somehow, someway, we belong somewhere else. Ever since Adam and Eve cast themselves out of the Garden, we have been trying to find our way back.

July 10, 2018

After Cardinal Farrell’s Marriage-Preparation Remarks, Some Catholics Ask for Clarity

By Ed Condon, Catholic News Agency - Dominican Father Thomas Petri… “I can only assume there’s more to Cardinal Farrell’s point than what’s being reported, since on the face of it the assertion that priests have no credibility with regard to marriage is utterly confounding… If we’re going to insist that priests have no credibility with regard to marriage, then we not only wash away the dogmatic and moral theology of the sacrament, but we also must, therefore, insist that the faithful should not approach priests for counsel on marriage.”