Catholic Church

By Matt Lamb, LifeSiteNews - Bishop Strickland will keynote the event with a speech titled 'Proclaiming the Apostolic Faith with Clarity & Boldness.'... (join others) on September 1-2 for the “Defending Our Faith Catholic Conference” in Tyler, Texas... The conference is being organized by Terry Barber of Virgin Most Powerful Radio... The “two-day spiritual D-day” will empower the faithful in “shattering the supply line of the enemy through authentic teachings, our reparation of sins and the power of Eucharist.”

By Joseph Pearce,  Sr. Contributor, The Imaginative Conservative - At the heart of the Enlightenment was the egocentrism of René Descartes’.. (I think, therefore I am), which placed the individual at the centre of a subjective microcosmos, in which the deified self knows nothing with any certainty but his own thoughts. It is a very short leap from this entrapped perspective, bereft of any contact with the outside world of objective verity, to the belief that I can reinvent myself in my own image. In this light, or darkness, we can see Cartesianism as the progenitor of transsexualism and transhumanism.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - The number of good Catholic books being published keeps increasing, and I’m finding them far too hard to get to in this space. Nonetheless, I have four on my desk just now that I hope to review in due course. There’s Robert Cardinal Sarah’s remarkable book from EWTN Publishing in which he offers his own reflections on priestly life based on the meditations of a wide range of saintly authors (For Eternity: Restoring the Priesthood and Our Spiritual Fatherhood).

By Father Raymond J. de Souza, EWTN News - From early in the pontificate, Pope Francis has kept his distance from Veritatis Splendor. With the appointment of Archbishop Victor Fernández as the new prefect of doctrine, he has now elevated a longtime critic of the encyclical. It follows that if the moral vision of Veritatis Splendor is suspect, then so, too, is John Paul’s pastoral approach to young people.