Catholic Church

January 17, 2018

Practically Perfect in Every Way – Three More2Life Hacks for Overcoming Perfectionism

By Dr. Gregory Popcak, Patheos - In the age of social media, self-criticism and perfectionism are more prominent than ever. We continue to become increasingly focused on being “perfect”: having the perfect physique, having the perfect job, or keeping the perfect house. In reality, however, this striving for “perfection” simply makes us increasingly unhappy as we lose focus of what we are really working towards.

January 16, 2018

The 4 Prophetic Catholic Warnings on the Effects of Chemical Contraception

By Fr. John Hollowell, Courageous Priest - “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? ..the immoral person sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you… Therefore glorify God in your body.”... As every scripture scholar acknowledges, St. Paul is here warning the Corinthians about a particular type of sin – sexual immorality that was so rampant at the time in Corinth

January 16, 2018

By What Authority? On the Teaching Office of the Pope

By Gerhard Cardinal Müller, First Things - As Pope Benedict XVI explained… “The pope is not an absolute monarch whose thoughts and desires are law. On the contrary: The pope’s ministry is a guarantee of obedience to Christ and to his Word. He must not proclaim his own ideas, but rather constantly bind himself and the Church to obedience to God’s Word, in the face of every attempt to adapt it or water it down, and every form of opportunism.”

January 16, 2018

Jesus and Bending the Law

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In Monday’s reading Jesus is accused of not following the fasting rules observed by the Pharisees and the disciples of John the Baptist. Jesus rebuffs them by saying, in effect, that rejoicing with the Lord (the very giver of the law) is a weightier matter than the observance of fasting traditions (Mk 2:18ff).