Catholic Church

Fr. Dwight Longenecker, Patheos - News broke yesterday about Vatican financial problems on a grand scale. LifeSite News publishes the story here. Their story is based on leaked documents, but like all news stories, corroboration may be needed and further details will shed more light on what has happened... A word of explanation might be necessary for those who are not in the know about the key players.

By Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Presents - If you have ever wondered how to make a good confession, Fr. Mike Schmitz has some solid advice for you. He points out that preparing for a good confession starts when we recognize that being a "good person” in our own eyes is not enough—we are called to holiness, which is something much greater. In this video, Fr. Mike offers four powerful ways we can examine our consciences....

By John Horvat II,  The American TFP - The bestselling book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, is dangerous for Catholics of little faith. Rarely do you see a book that is so cunningly written to shake certainties and present as inevitable a stark and Godless future now being planned… It is far better to read about the book and its ideas. Most Catholics urgently need to know what is coming down the road. They don’t need to try to unravel the book’s esoteric mysteries.

By Regis Nicoll, Crisis Magazine - As eighteenth century English writer Samuel Johnson might have put it, “Nothing concentrates the mind like knowing that I am dust, and to dust I shall return.” And nothing is a more bracing reminder of that reality than the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday.