Catholic Church

March 31, 2018

On Liturgy and Orthodoxy, the Synod Document Forgot Our Voices

By John Monaco, Catholic Herald - This year’s synod, the 2018 Synod of Bishops on Youth, Faith, and Vocational Discernment is slated to begin in October, but the preparation has already been underway for months. In particular, official Facebook groups in six languages were created by the #Synod2018 leaders, inviting all Catholics from ages 16 -29 to participate....

March 31, 2018

Where Is Jesus Between His Death and Resurrection?

By Msgr. Charles Pope - “I am your God, who for your sake have become your Son. … I order you, O sleeper, to awake. I did not create you to be a prisoner in hell. Rise from the dead, for I am the life of the dead.”

March 31, 2018

Sacramental Grace in Marriage

By Henry V. Sattler, C.SS.R., CatholicCulture - The sacramental grace of Matrimony then takes a Christian marriage out of the realm of the natural and makes the married couple connatural principles of supernatural action. In Casti Connubii Pius XI says, quoting the Council of Trent: . . . By raising the Matrimony of His faithful to the dignity of a true sacrament, [Christ] made it a sign and source of that peculiar internal grace by which 'it perfects natural love, confirms an indissoluble union, and sanctifies both man and wife.'

March 30, 2018

A Meditation on The Passion of Our Lord

By Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Catholic Exchange - Jesus, desiring to enrich us, first gave us his blood to purify us so that we might be able to receive the gifts he offers. O my dear Savior, you go out to the Garden of Olives, to the house of Caiaphas, to the praetorium of the Roman governor, and at last you climb Mount Calvary. Everywhere you go you pour out the blood of your new covenant, the blood by which our crimes are expiated and abolished.