Catholic Church

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - Sometime between the 18th and 19th centuries a new type of human being appeared in Europe. Not a biologically new type. No, a new psychological type. Let’s call this type homo utopianus... For a few centuries, Christianity had been fading away in Europe. The Protestant Reformation combined with the Catholic Counter-Reformation ....

By James Kalb, Catholic World Report - God doesn’t get reported in the news, and the experts in the media question or deny him and everything about him. So how do we get people—how do we get ourselves—to feel that He is more real than anything else?... The obvious answer is that they would help most if they became saints. If you as a Catholic want to “make a difference,” cultivate sanctity and wholehearted love of God and neighbor.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - At an interfaith conference some years ago, I struck up a conversation with a prominent Muslim cleric. He was probably amused by my awkward attempt to greet him properly, using one of the few phrases of Arabic that I know. In any event he was friendly, we spoke frequently over the next few days, and when the conference came to an end we sat together at the final dinner.

By James Monti, The Wanderer - In the procession of Corpus Christi, that quintessential moment in a priest’s daily life when he raises aloft the Holy Eucharist following the consecration is wonderfully prolonged, as he keeps raised before his own eyes and the eyes of his people the Sacred Host on a journey that will ultimately lead him and his flock to the gates of the Heavenly Jerusalem. As we join in the sacred festivities of Corpus Christi, let us be sure to thank God for those consecrated hands in which the King of the Universe is carried and given to us.