Catholic Church

By Fr. John Hardon, S.J., CERC - For the sake of convenience, we may identify this vision with the six key meditations of the Spiritual Exercises. They are key meditations because they are the foundational truths of revelation on which depends not only our personal destiny, but the survival in time and into eternity of the whole of created humanity.

By Francis Phillips, Catholic Herald - Professor Ulrich L. Lehner, who teaches religious history and theology at Marquette University, has written a book with the provocative title, "God is not Nice". Visitors who saw it lying on my desk during the Christmas period commented on it, wondering what the author could mean: wasn’t it unkind or disrespectful to God to refer to him thus?

By Philip Kosloski, Aleteia - One of the most used words in Catholicism is the word “Eucharist.” It’s heard every Sunday at Mass and Catholics use it all the time. What does it mean?.. The Catechism of the Catholic Church offers a brief definition of the word… The inexhaustible richness of [the sacrament of the eucharist, i.e. the “Mass”] is expressed in the different names we give it. Each name evokes certain aspects of it.