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by bcadmin | Nov 17, 2022 | Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, Hans Küng, Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter, News, Progressive Catholics, Richard McBrien, St. John Paul II | 0 |
The folks over at the National Catholic Reporter must think we have poor memories or no memory at all. For decades, the Reporter positioned itself as the loyal opposition to what it viewed as an […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2022 | enlightenment, Faith, fake news, fides et ratio, News, Philosophy, reason, skepticism, St. John Paul II, St. Thomas Aquinas, The Dispatch | 0 |
Catholics are rightly fond of quoting Pope John Paul II’s opening line in his encyclical Fides et Ratio: “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 14, 2022 | Fratelli Tutti, Knowing our why, News, Pope Francis, Simple Holiness, St. John Paul II, Veritatis Splendor, Why | 0 |
When I was a practicing therapist, I would often talk with my clients about “knowing our why.” Our “why” was the reason, or reasons, we told ourselves was the impetus for the actions, or inactions, we took in life. When we know our “why,” we can more clearly understand the “what” we must do to achieve this “why.” And our “what” always sends us back to our “why,” so that the process is circular in nature, as well as progressive.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 1, 2022 | Blessed Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Communism, Jesus Christ, krakow, News, Poland, Social Doctrine, Social Justice, St. John Paul II, The Dispatch | 0 |
Blessed Stefan Wyszyński was the primate of Poland from 1948-1981 during one of the pivotal periods of her history. Love and Social Justice: Reflections on Society was created from a series of essays written by Wyszyński […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 11, 2022 | Auschwitz, Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, Cardinal Michael Czerny, Catholic-Jewish relations, lead, News, News Analysis, St. Edith Stein, St. John Paul II | 0 |
For those with long memories, Cardinal Michael Czerny’s ascent is reminiscent of another luminary cardinal with Jewish roots whose star burned bright during the Pope John Paul II years: The late Jean-Marie Lustiger of Paris.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 26, 2022 | Abraham Lincoln, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, News, St. John Paul II, The Dispatch | 0 |
“When the days for Jesus’ being taken up were fulfilled, he resolutely determined to journey to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51). I had a homily on priestly vocations prepared for this Sunday, but Friday’s Dobbs v. Jackson […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 21, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Culture, Columns, James V. Schall, John Emmet Clarke, Josef Pieper, News, Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, reading, Robert Royal, St. John Paul II, T.S. Eliot, Take and Read Lest You Forget, The Catholic Thing, tradition | 0 |
College commencement season is upon us. Graduates now face the prospect that they may never again be required to read…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 13, 2022 | 2022, Aquinas, Bread of Angels, Christopher West, Columns, Eucharist, Holy Communion, Jesus Christ, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pakaluk's "Food Not Sex", Robert Royal, St. Bonaventure, St. John Paul II, St. Mary Magdalen of Pazzi, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
I have heard Catholics, usually men, wonder whether the reception of Holy Eucharist can be compared to the marital embrace. …
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 15, 2022 | 2022, Babel Effect, Brad Miner, Catholic University of America, Columns, John S. Grabowski's Unraveling Gender: The Battle over Sexual Difference, Left’s sexual ideology, News, Revelation 21, Self-determination as original sin, St. John Paul II, Tan Books, The Beacons Are Lit: “Unraveling Gender”, The Catholic Thing | 0 |
Brad Miner reviews a new book critical of leftist views of sexuality (especially transgenderism) that undermine Christian moral theology.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 10, 2022 | 2022, Archdiocese of Munich-Freising, Benedict XVI laicized 400 priests, Benedict’s Mea Culpa, Columns, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Joseph Ratzinger, News, St. John Paul II, Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, the legacy of Benedict XVI, The Synodal Way | 0 |
As Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI nears the end of his long and extraordinary life, the tussling over his legacy has…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 20, 2021 | 2021, Archbishop Arthur Roche, Benedict XVI, bination, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Fr. Gerald E. Murray, Jesus Christ, lex orandi, News, Papal Posse, Pope Francis, Responsa ad dubia, Roman Missal of 1962, St. John Paul II, St. Paul VI, suppression of sacramental Latin, The Catholic Thing, The Cruel and Incoherent Further Restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, Traditionis custodes | 0 |
Fr. Gerald E. Murray: The Vatican says the use of Latin creates division, but the Holy See is dividing is by stigmatizing faithful Catholics.
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 12, 2021 | Amoris Laetitia, Archbishop Paul Gallagher, cardinals dubia, Dialogue, Hungary, lead, Matteo Salvini, Migrants, News, News Analysis, Pope Francis, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, St. John Paul II, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
The Vatican is, and likely always will be, much better at dialogue ad extra than ad intra.
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