Catholic Church

By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - In rare public remarks, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has lamented “obscuring” God in the liturgy, which he says is the root cause of the current crisis in the Church... In the preface to a new Russian edition of his book Theology of the Liturgy, Benedict writes that a widespread misunderstanding of the liturgical reform led to man placing “his own activity and creativity at the center of worship.”

By Gretchen Filz, The Catholic Company - St. Maria Faustina Kowalska was a poor and humble Polish woman famous for being the nun to whom Our Lord personally entrusted his message of Divine Mercy to the world… It may be presumed by many that, as a close confidant of Jesus, St. Faustina must have enjoyed a privileged life of enormous grace and consolation...

By Anthony Esolen, The Catholic Thing - The other day a very bright young lady in one of my classes at Saint Thomas More College said something that nearly stunned me. “The guys in our class,” she said, with a thumbs-up, and a nod of appreciation and gratitude, “are really great.”... We are not supposed to be enemies: men are for women, and women are for men. That is human nature.

By Rev. Robert A. Sirico, Crisis Magazine - The devotion to Mary within the Christian DNA, could properly be said to derive in the first instance from the high esteem shown to Mary by the Archangel Gabriel, who brings to Mary the announcement of her vocation of mother of the Savior of the world.