Catholic Church

By Jim Graves , EWTN News - Father recalled that Fr. Hardon was often at odds with the progressive members of his Jesuit order. While teaching at one Jesuit university, for example, Fr. Hardon “was given the worst possible jobs, the worst place to stay and the worst of everything. They did not like Fr. Hardon.”... Fr. Hardon bore his suffering cheerfully, Fr. McCaffrey recalled: “If we don’t accept suffering cheerfully, he said, we’ll lose the grace.”

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - The life of St. Ignatius of Antioch was connected to other great figures in the early Church, not least being St. John the Evangelist... There were altogether seven letters sent by Ignatius of Antioch, its sainted bishop and martyr, to various communities of the faithful lying between Antioch and Rome—the latter, of course, being the place of rendezvous where ravenous beasts eagerly awaited his arrival, which took place, so far as we know, in the year A.D. 107.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - I am reminded of G. K. Chesterton’s statement in The Everlasting Man: “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” I also recently learned of a snippet from T. S. Eliot’s play, The Family Reunion, which he wrote in verse: In a world of fugitives, The person taking the opposite direction Will appear to run away.

By Archbishop Héctor Aguer, LifeSiteNews - I consider that this intervention of Francis shows that the Church is locked in the enclosure of Practical Reason, adoring finiteness and temporality, as an arbiter of the imaginary 'globalist Christianity.'... Christ’s command to the Apostles is unmistakable: “Go and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Mt 28:19-20).