Catholic Church

By David Kilby, Catholic Exchange - Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas taught that God is truth, goodness and beauty. To seek what is true, what is good, or what is beautiful is to search for God. Contrary to popular belief, as we search for truth, for goodness, and for beauty, God does not elude us. He leaves a trail of hints that lead to him if we are interested enough to seek him. He does this because he knows we love to explore and discover.

By Joan Frawley Desmond, EWTN News - The objective was to put all the Church’s teaching and instructions on the liturgy in one place. Archbishop Sample said at the time, “This is not me writing new rubrics for the Mass. This is a reference book for how the liturgy should be executed at this time. This is what the Church teaches and expects.” Often people are unsure about certain aspects of the Church’s liturgy; this handbook, gives them the answers they need with the exact citations as to where the Church documents contain these instructions. ...

By David Carlin,  The Catholic Thing - Practically speaking, it makes little difference whether we call them “God-given rights” or “natural rights” or “human rights” or “fundamental human rights.”  These are four names for the same thing.  On that, all of us – left or right or center, liberal or conservative or moderate, Democrat or Republican or independent, Christians or non-Christians or even anti-Christians—can agree.  We all acknowledge the existence of such rights.

By Michael Hichborn, LifeSiteNews - The ardently pro-homosexual Association of U.S. Catholic Priests has proposed 'priest-less parishes' as an answer to the priest shortage, and it proposes that laypersons could step into the role of a pastor, leading parishes in “Eucharistic Services” – not as a Mass, but as a pseudo-replacement for Mass.