Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - We do well to ponder the kinds of sufferings the Apostles endured to announce the Gospel and win souls for Christ. In the “softer” Church of the declining West, it is hard for us even to imagine such suffering. How many Catholics today can even bear to rouse themselves to get to an hour-long Mass on Sunday? How many of us clergy will not speak the truth so as to avoid a raised eyebrow?

By John Horvat II, Return to Order - When a society upholds the law of God and rejects evil in all its manifestations, there are all the elements for progress and sanctification... In modern times, Satan’s great triumph has been to undermine this concept of society. Above all, he has sought to destroy in the minds of Christians the idea of this fight between good and evil. Thus, he employs several strategies to keep Christians out of the good fight.

By Josh M. Shepherd, The Stream - Many evangelicals point to the Great Awakenings or Azusa Street in 1912 as the origin of the charismatic movement. Fournier and Brown go back centuries earlier — seeing the Holy Spirit’s activity as continuous since the early Church. “When you look at the writings of the early fathers, there is a clear theology of the Holy Spirit and recognition these gifts are available,” Fournier says.