Catholic Church

By Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing - In Modern Catholic Social Teaching, these entities are the concrete embodiment of “subsidiarity” – constituents of a properly ordered social structure that limits the reach of the State, a traditional concept that came into renewed prominence in the 1930s with the rise of Communism, Nazism, and Fascism. Each of these ideological movements concentrated social power in a single group: in Communism, the Party; in Nazism, the German Volk; in Fascism, the Fascist State itself. The names change but the DNA of tyranny remains the same.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The readings today speak of a great cosmic battle that is taking place all around us. In the Gospel, Jesus speaks vividly of it, and of his own mission to engage our ancient foe and to gather God’s elect back from the enslaving clutches of Satan, who was a murder and a liar from the beginning (cf John 8:44)... And so, as Jesus approaches Jerusalem for the final time, He describes the battle that is about to unfold. It is a battle he wins at the Cross and Resurrection, but it is a battle whose parameters extend across time to our own era.

TFP - During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Our Lady of Good Success appeared in Quito, Ecuador to a Spanish nun whose little-known but extraordinary life has a direct connection with our days... The Pope’s “infallibility will be declared a dogma of Faith by the same Pope chosen to proclaim the dogma of the mystery of my Immaculate Conception. He will be persecuted and imprisoned in the Vatican through the usurpation of the Pontifical States and through the malice, envy, and avarice of an earthly monarch.”

By Jennifer Gregory Miller, Catholic Culture - We celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary this Monday, August 15th. This feast day always evokes the best parts of summer for me, but it also is a signal that summer is waning and schools will be back in session.