Catholic Church

By Rev. John F. Naugl, Brownstone Institute - For Christians, Easter has always been associated with the initiation rituals whereby the works of darkness are renounced and put to death so that the new life belonging to the Light of the World may be begun. In ancient days, the catechumens would defiantly turn towards the West to make this renunciation and then turn to the East, leaving behind everything to make their profession of faith.

By Deacon Mike Manno, The Wanderer - We have two great documents with which we need to re-familiarize ourselves... The first is the Bible, our Christian scripture. The second is our American scripture, our founding documents, the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Read them, believe what you read, and practice same. We’ve been around long enough to know we can trust Jesus, the Word of God, even if we sometimes do not understand. And the same for our Founding Fathers. Between those documents there is a spiritual and political blueprint for our lives.

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - We find ourselves at the tail end of this long Lent which comes to us a decade into this long and difficult papacy... We have read the headlines, heard the airplane interviews, and been exposed to the continual updates to the Catechism. The Synod on Synodality has become a meme-factory at this point, and many people are now under the impression that the pope cares more about vaccines than Sacred Scripture... Latin-Massers are waiting for the proverbial Sword of Damocles to drop on their Sunday TLM, and the German bishops are making Martin Luther look like Marcel Lefebvre.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - We do well to ponder the whys and wherefores of the Passion of Our Lord. St. Thomas Aquinas presents the premise that God does nothing in an arbitrary way, but rather as Lord of History sets forth everything in fitting ways and at appropriate places and times. Every detail has something to teach us... Let’s consider why Christ suffered in Jerusalem (but outside its walls) in a place called “the skull.” St... Christ died most appropriately in Jerusalem. First of all, because Jerusalem was God’s chosen place for the offering of sacrifices to Himself: and these figurative sacrifices foreshadowed Christ’s Passion. ...