Catholic Church

By Gayle Somers, Catholic Exchange - Included in the Octave of Christmas is today’s solemnity, which gives us an opportunity to think about Mary’s participation in the Incarnation.  We know, of course, that the description of Mary as “Mother of God” came as a result of confusion in the early years of Christianity over the exact nature of the Incarnation.  The controversy pivoted on the question of whether Jesus was fully divine from the womb.

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - Never is this dysfunction more apparent than during a crisis (which is why so many families suffered from deeper dysfunction when the cult of 2020 began). One of those times of great crisis for a family is when the patriarch of the family is set to die... When the patriarch is set to die, it means that a whole era of history is set to die with him, which is, of course, very sad. In addition to the sadness of losing the leader of the family, there is the added reality that, when he dies, it will be necessary to divvy up the inheritance—if there is any—and handle the affairs.

Msgr. Charles Pope - (Dec. 28th) we observe the feast of the Holy Innocents, a feast commemorating the young children, of even younger age who were cruelly murdered by the paranoid and crazed killer known as Herod “the Great.” So paranoid was he that others might usurp or limit his power that he killed three of his own sons, and his wife. He ruthlessly killed many others as well. ...

Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne, ‘The Brendan Option’ - “We tend to compare the best of the past to the worst of the present.”.. Join Fr. Brendan Kilcoyne for episode 109 of ‘The Brendan Option’ where he discusses the “tribalizing” occurring in the Church today... “Love the Scriptures, love the Pope, love our mother the Church and set your face into the tough hard business of holding an enormous, fractious, quarreling flock together… there’s the real Catholic, with a capital C!”