Catholic Church

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - I’ve never encountered more brazen and manipulative liars than Communist Chinese officials responsible for relations with religious believers... Which is what makes it so disturbing that last week reports surfaced that the Vatican asked two underground Chinese bishops, loyal to Rome, to step aside in order to allow two bishops of the Patriotic Church, submissive to the Communist regime, to take their places.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The following is attributed to Rabbi Simcha Bunim… Everyone must have two pockets so that he can reach into one or the other according to his needs. In his right pocket are to be the words, “For my sake was the world created,” and in his left pocket, “I am dust and ashes” (quoted in The Spirituality of Imperfection, p. 60).

By John Zmirak, The Stream - In Lady Bird, however, a Christian school is portrayed much more accurately: As a place where nuns, priests and high-minded lay teachers work hard for very little money. They do it to pass on beliefs and ideals, but also a view of the human person. They respect it, as the image and likeness of God. That sometimes means imposing some discipline...

By Steven Jonathan Rummelsburg, Catholic Exchange - The digital age, ushered in by the scientific revolution, discombobulated by the Enlightenment dictum that “man is the measure of all things,” makes any child of this age an heir to confusion. Confusion is of course the enemy of peace as well as the enemy of order.