Catholic Church

February 26, 2018

I’M GOING IN.

By Fr. Richard Heilman, Roman Catholic Man - The moral of the story is this: Jesus was right … “just” staying on the mountain, wallowing in a mystical experience (akin to our “just going to Mass”), is not going to change the world. We cannot “hide on top of the mountain”… No! We can surely receive the strength of that “mystical experience” (going to Mass), but we must understand the gifts God has given, receive the strength He gives to us, and we must head down the mountain …

February 26, 2018

Rev. Jerry J. Pokorsky: On the Morality of Gun Control

Father Jerry J. Pokorsky, The Catholic Thing - After delivering a homily indicting Catholic Senators (Democrat and Republican) who voted against legislation that would render illegal the killing of unborn babies with a developed nervous system, I received a response in a letter: I look forward to hearing your next political homily, similar to the one on abortion a few weeks ago. Please state the Catholic position on mass murder, and, in that context, list the Catholic Republicans in Congress who block any reasonable assault-weapons ban....

February 26, 2018

What’s the Point of Fasting, Anyway?

CNA/EWTN News - “The whole purpose of fasting is to put the created order and our spiritual life in a proper balance,” Deacon Carnazzo said.. As “bodily creatures in a post-fallen state,” it's easy to let our “lower passions” for physical goods supersede our higher intellect… We take good things for granted and reach for them whenever we feel like it, “without thinking, without reference to the One Who gives us the food, and without reference to the question of whether it’s good for us or not.”…

February 26, 2018

Chaput: Increased Government Due to Collapse of Civil Society in America

By Christopher White, The Crux - Archbishop Charles Chaput offered a critical assessment of the increased role of government in response to the collapse of civil… The archbishop of Philadelphia said that he believes the United States of America is more divided and conflicted at present than at any other moment since the 1960s… “We now have a Donald Trump, at least in part, because we had a Barack Obama. Mr. Trump is a reaction,” said Chaput.