Toward a New Pentecost
by Charles J. ChaputWhat the Church needs more than anything else is holiness. The renewal of the Church is not finally an issue of structures. It’s an issue of faith. Continue Reading »
What the Church needs more than anything else is holiness. The renewal of the Church is not finally an issue of structures. It’s an issue of faith. Continue Reading »
Paul Mankowski’s goal wasn’t to be lauded by his peers or to be personally fulfilled. It was to do his duty to God by selflessly serving an order that rarely hid its scorn for him. Continue Reading »
The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, claims that the USCCB has made no mention of prohibiting Communion to pro-abortion politicians. This simply is not true. Continue Reading »
Catholics who take the texts of Vatican II seriously refuse to truckle to, and in fact resist, those cultural aggressors who think of human beings as mere twitching bundles of morally-equal desires. Continue Reading »
Revitalizing a eucharistic Church requires a new clarity among the people of the Church about the nature of the eucharistic community—and what actions estrange Catholics from it. Continue Reading »
Fulton J. Sheen is defined in popular imagination by the persona he adopted on Life Is Worth Living, his Emmy-winning television program. During each episode, the telegenic bishop strode onstage in vestments and opened with a few jokes that introduced the evening’s topic. He headed to his . . . . Continue Reading »
We began just after daybreak. One by one, the brigades filed out of the parking lot, each singing a different hymn. Turning away from the water, the lengthening line of pilgrims snaked up the hill toward a colossal statue of St. Isaac Jogues. This St. Isaac was not the bashful youth of prayer cards. . . . . Continue Reading »
In recent decades, the Civil War has received an increasing amount of attention from historians. Some of this scholarship has focused on the role religion played in the war. In The Civil War as a Theological Crisis (2006), Mark Noll describes the Civil War as a turning point in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Confession: Catholics, Repentance, and Forgiveness in America by patrick w. carey oxford, 392 pages, $34.95 In the 2013 Joseph Gordon-Levitt romantic comedy Don Jon, the porn-obsessed title character hits the confessional, reels off his usual list of sins against chastity, and then . . . . Continue Reading »
An appropriate pastoral response to a genuine crisis should be vigorously defended at February’s global gathering of bishops. Continue Reading »