Catholic Church

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The readings from Sunday Mass speak to us of our desperate condition and how God’s abiding love has not only set us free but has lifted us higher as well. God was not content to restore us to some earthly garden, paradise though it was. No, He so loved the world that He sent His Son, who opened Heaven itself for us and has given us a new, transformed, and eternal life.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - Every human person does have a common enemy: Satan. St. Paul writes, For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the high realms (Eph 6:12).

By Jay W. Richards, Ph.D., The Executive Editor, The Stream - You may be wondering why I’ve said a lot about fasts in this series and precious little about feasts... But do we really need to learn to feast?.. By historical standards, most of us feast every day. And on feast days, we have super-feasts. At Thanksgiving, we gorge on turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, bread pudding, sweet cranberry dressing, and more

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, Editor in chief,  Convivium Magazine - Cardinal Wuerl does not address directly the question of admission to Holy Communion of those living in a conjugal union while being validly married to someone else. But then neither does AL… Cardinal Wuerl is too responsible to attempt what the drafters of AL did, namely to ignore entirely Veritatis Splendor(The Splendor of Truth), Pope St. John Paul II’s authoritative magisterial teaching on the moral life and conscience....