Catholic Church

By Hannah Brockhaus, CNA - Cardinal Sarah added that he hopes his book answers “a profound need of our time.”... “Every one of us must strive, continuously, to draw closer to Jesus Christ, to return to his word, and to the simplicity of the faith in his self-revelation. It is the simplicity of the desert, of recognition of our dependence upon God, and encountering him and the gift of his love and his grace, by which he configured us to himself"

By Matthew Archbold - I’ve been predicting doom for our culture for about a decade. I just don’t see it as escapable... “We are hobbits facing orcs,” says Catholic author Peter Kreeft. “There’s horrendous stuff in the future…but it’s a fixed fight.”... God sent us into a battlefield, not a garden.

By Kathleen N. Hattrup, Aleteia - If you're hoping to start praying with Scripture through Lectio Divina this season, here's a handy four-step summary of how to do it... In his 2010 document Verbum Domini (Word of the Lord), Benedict XVI offered a review of the “basic steps” of Lectio Divina, the prayerful reading of Scripture... Here is what he said ....

By Heather Martin, The Federalist - For many of you, it never left. For those involved in Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, and other denominations that have kept to liturgy, you have been enjoying the long-held tradition of Advent since the 4th century... Not so for me. Raised in a Baptist church and educated by an Evangelical university, I knew next to nothing about Advent even though I had been a Christian all my life. That is, until the last decade or so.