Catholic Church

By Brandon McGinley, First Things - We seem to have internalized the liberal view that the Church is just another institution among many, and that what she has to offer is parochial, not universal... Augusta National does not so much point the way forward as suggest what might have been: an archipelago of Church institutions thriving as craggy masses of authentic catholicity in an otherwise undifferentiated landscape…

By Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D., Catholic Exchange - Mercy is not just pity.  Neither is it simply sparing someone the punishment that they deserve.  No, mercy is love’s response to suffering.  When mercy encounters suffering, it ultimately seeks to alleviate it.  God the Father is so “rich in mercy” (Eph 2:4) that Paul calls him “the Father of all mercies and the God of all comfort” (2 Cor 1:3).

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis Magazine - The Hebrews of old could divorce, but Jesus says that “it was not so from the beginning,” that is, before the fall of man. “Therefore,” he says, citing the words of Genesis, “a man leaves his mother and father and cleaves unto his wife, and they two become one flesh.”