Category: Benedict XVI

Catholics at the Midterms

by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholic voting 2022, Catholicism, Columns, David G. Bonagura Jr.'s "Catholics at the Midterms", Father Walter Ciszek's With God in Russia, Hadley Arkes, James V. Schall S.J., Jesus Christ, News, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

For Catholics, every day brings midterms – tests great and small that measure our progress in holiness. Each one prepares…

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“Man needs God, otherwise he remains without hope”

by bcadmin | Nov 5, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Hope, Jesus Christ, Maccabees, News, Proverbs, Resurrection, Spe Salvi, The Dispatch | 0 |

Readings: • 2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14 • Ps 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15 • 2 Thes 2:16-3:5 • Lk 20:27-38 “Let us put it very simply: man needs God, otherwise he remains without hope.” That statement […]

Vatican II and the universality of Christ’s saving mission

by bcadmin | Nov 3, 2022 | and the Unsaved, Benedict XVI, Hell, Jesus Christ, missions, News, Pope John Paul II, Pope Paul VI, Salvation, Spe Salvi, The Dispatch, Vatican II | 0 |

The distinguishing feature of the doctrine and the pastoral program of the Second Vatican Council is Trinitarian Christocentrism. The Council’s teaching on the nature of Sacred Liturgy, on the mystery of the Church, on the […]

What’s Really Needed for a “Eucharistic Revival”?

by bcadmin | Oct 25, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Communion fast, Communion in the Hand, Extraordinary ministers of holy Communion, Jesus Christ, Loss of Latin, Mass facing the people, Movement of the tabernacle, News, Removal of altar rails, Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas' "What’s Really Needed for a “Eucharistic Revival”? ", St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, Standing for Holy Communion, The Catholic Thing, Vatican II on the Eucharist, versus populum | 0 |

Our American bishops, rightly concerned about the widespread loss of faith in the Most Holy Eucharist, have launched a three-year…

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Gender Ideology Comes to Notre Dame

by bcadmin | Oct 24, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Irish Rover, Matthew Hanley, News, Notre Dame caves to gender theory, Notre Dame ignores Magisterium, Notre Dame’s Vice President of Student Affairs Rev. Gerry Olinger, Pope Francis, proliferating genders, Rev. John I. Jenkins C.S.C., Rick Fitzgibbons, Sycamore Trust, The Catholic Thing, William Dempsey, William H. Dempsey's "Gender Ideology Comes to Notre Dame", “woke” gender theory | 0 |

When Pope Francis spoke out about the “woke” gender theory fueling today’s transgender frenzy as “a great falsehood” and “ideological…

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A Piecemeal Vatican III?

by bcadmin | Oct 17, 2022 | 2022, 2023-2024 Synod on Synodality, Benedict XVI, Benedict XVI's warnings, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Christ’s Mystical Body, Columns, Michael Pakaluk, News, Pope Francis, Pope Francis adds a year to synod, Robert Royal, Robert Royal's "A Piecemeal Vatican III?", Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

Our reading today is from the Book of Benedict XVI (A Life: Volume Two), in which he recounts to biographer…

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The Church of 2050

by bcadmin | Oct 6, 2022 | 2022, Archbishop William Lori, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Church contraction in Baltimore, Columns, decline of Catholicism in America, Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, Francis X. Maier, future of the Catholic Church in America, George Weigel, Joseph Ratzinger, News, Stephen P. White, Stephen P. White's "The Church of 2050", The Catholic Thing | 0 |

The Archdiocese of Baltimore recently announced a new initiative designed to “reimagine Catholic life in Baltimore City and some nearby…

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A Tale of Two Crises

by bcadmin | Oct 2, 2022 | 2022, attendance at Mass, Benedict XVI, CARA, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Byers, decline of faith and practice among Catholics, John Paul II, News, Ralph Martin, Russell Shaw's "A Tale of Two Crises", The Catholic Thing | 0 |

In comments to a gathering of conservative Catholic college professors recently, I remarked that in modern times American Catholicism has…

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Religion, “presentism”, and the problem of the future

by bcadmin | Sep 29, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Christopher Dawson, discipleship, Evangelization, Faith, Jesus Christ, News, Nones, Science, The Dispatch | 0 |

“All religions,” writes Pope Benedict XVI in the first volume of Jesus of Nazareth, “try in one way or another to lift the veil of the future. They seem important precisely because they impart knowledge […]

The “National Synthesis” on the Synod

by bcadmin | Sep 21, 2022 | 2022, Abortion, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Francis X. Maier'a "The “National Synthesis” on the Synod", Jesus Christ, John Paul II, John Stowe bishop of Lexington KY, National Synthesis of the People of God in the United States of America for the Diocesan Phase of the 2021-2023 Synod, News, Robert Royal, rolling Vatican III, Russell Shaw, Synod on Synodality, The Catholic Thing, USCCB | 0 |

I was traveling on September 19, and was delayed in reading the National Synthesis prepared by U.S. bishops in advance…

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The Lay Vocation

by bcadmin | Sep 8, 2022 | 2022, Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, decline of Catholicism in America, Fr. Thomas G. Weinandy OFM Cap., News, Stephen P. White, The Catholic Thing, The Lay Vocation by Stephen P. White | 0 |

In 1903, the College of Cardinals met in Rome to elect a successor to Pope Leo XIII, who had reigned…

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The “People of God” and the continued battle over Vatican II

by bcadmin | Sep 6, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Communio, Features, Lumen Gentium, News, People of God, Pope Francis, ressourcement, Second Vatican Council, St. Pope John Paul II | 0 |

“The real problem with popes,” a friend once said to me, “is that they die.” What he meant was that no matter how consequential a particular papacy might be, it is still at the mercy […]