Catholic Church

By Dr. Glenn C. Arbery, The Imaginative Conservative - Nothing breaks through melancholy like a baby... Advent, from one point of view, is all about breaking open a text that has gone dead; it’s about the promise lying all along beneath all the words, words, words of the Scripture that for many had become cold and dry and legalistic over two thousand years ago.

By Pete Baklinski, LifeSiteNews - One day a few years ago I decided to set an image of the face of Our Lady of Guadalupe as my desktop background on my computer. She's the patroness of pre-born children… one day while moving windows around on my desktop that were covering part of her face, I suddenly noticed something that I’d never noticed before.

By Staff Reporter, Catholic Herald - the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales says that you cannot fulfil both the Sunday and Christmas obligations in just one Mass… The primary purpose of a holyday of obligation is to call the faithful to celebrate particular dimensions of the mysteries of Christ and His Church. Since obligation is attached to specific mysteries being celebrated, it is not possible to fulfil two obligations in one celebration.

By Ron Austin, First Things - The key to understanding modernity and its ultimate demise lies in the many failed efforts to find replacements for religious faith. These efforts included creating identities based on nationality, class, and race as well as utopian ideologies. But it was the mass media fostering a “pop culture” that was the most influential and powerful substitute for a meaningful worldview