Catholic Church

By Catherine McManamon, Catholic Company - I came across this daily meditation by Fr. Frederic Nelson* called “A Spiritual Christmas Crib” a few weeks ago and found it to be a meaningful way to help prepare my heart for Christ’s birth. This spiritual exercise is meant to build a crib for Jesus Christ in our hearts so that they will be worthy of His presence come December 25th.

By K. Albert Little, Patheos - The notion that Catholicism is a religion of rules is patently untrue… Catholicism has rules, certainly, like every single religion, discipline, or program that promises any sort of life-changing dimension to it. But these rules aren’t to be blindly or mindlessly followed, they aren’t the end itself, and they aren’t intended to exalt anybody in the eyes of anybody else… The rules are a means to an end and, if anything, the rules are meant to humble… And utterly transform.

By Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Press Living in the Present MomentNever before was there and never again will there be a moment quite like the present, yet […]

By Msgr. Charles Pope - As the recent spate of sexual abuse allegations and revelations demonstrate, we as a culture engage in some degree of self-correction. Too often, however, our outrage is both selective and short-lived. There is little evidence that we are willing to consider the overall “pornification” of our culture as an underlying problem.