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by bcadmin | Aug 6, 2022 | Latin Mass, News, News Analysis, Orthodoxy, Rod Dreher, St. Pope John Paul II, Vatican II | 0 |
What holds Catholicism together over time isn’t so much ideological consistency but family ties. Catholics regard the church as their spiritual home, and whatever their frustrations might be at any given moment, most can’t conceive of leaving.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 30, 2022 | Cardinal Kurt Koch, Church in Europe, lead, News, Orthodoxy, Patriarch Bartholomew, Patriarch Kirill, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
In a new interview with a German newspaper, the Vatican’s point man on ecumenical affairs has said Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill’s defense of the war in Ukraine amounts to “heresy,” and has fractured the unit of the Orthodox community.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 15, 2022 | Crisis, Diana Montagna, Emmaus Road, Fr. Gerald Murray, Germany, News, Orthodoxy, Scott Hahn, The Dispatch | 0 |
Readers may recognize Fr. Gerald Murray as a member of the “Papal Posse”, along with Robert Royal, on EWTN’s The Word Over with Raymond Arroyo. On that program, as well as through his writing for […]
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Years of difficulty finally led me to spend yesterday morning looking at Director of Religious Education jobs, Catholic schools, houses, and parishes in the Archdiocese of Denver. Like many Catholic families, I found myself wanting to move our family to an area with a rich, vibrant, orthodox, and fruitful spiritual environment. I want to live […]
by bcadmin | Dec 22, 2021 | Christmas, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, Mary, News, Orthodoxy, Sophia Excerpts, St. Joseph | 0 |
We beheld the shepherds coming in from their fields glorifying God and bringing all who heard them to glorify him too. Yet here is something still more marvelous and edifying: “Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.” And furthermore, “his father and his mother marveled at what was said about him” (Luke […]
by bcadmin | Dec 8, 2021 | dogma, Featured, Immaculate Conception, Mary, News, Orthodoxy, Saints, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
The Immaculate Conception is not the virgin birth. I want to make that really clear at the beginning, since far too many people get hopelessly confused on that point. Furthermore, the conception that was “immaculate” was Mary’s, not Christ’s. The dogma of the Immaculate Conception says that at the very moment of Mary’s conception, both […]
by bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | Featured, Hope, Immaculate Conception, Mary, News, Orthodoxy, Saints | 0 |
“Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” —1 Sm. 16: 7 It’s hard to hope when your heart is laden with burdens too numerous to count. This time of year, every secular image is intended to evoke sentiments of nostalgia and merriment, warmth and fond memories. For many of […]
by bcadmin | Nov 9, 2021 | Best of Week, Church calendar, daily devotions, Devotions, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, News, Orthodoxy, prayers, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
As St. Josemaría suggested, our contact with the invisible Audience could be very well seasoned if we place a particular emphasis on each day of the week. Mondays to Remember the Dead in Purgatory On Mondays, it would be a good idea to remember the blessed souls in Purgatory. They certainly belong to the silent […]
Why are droves of Catholics fleeing the Catholic Church like rats escaping from a sinking ship? Why is it that the largest religious groups the world over are non-practicing Catholics? You can offer massive reasons for the loss of many Catholics who used to practice their faith—many of whom were baptized, confirmed, and married in […]
Coming just after Hell and just before Heaven, the second of the three books that make up Dante’s Divine Comedy is the Purgatorio—Purgatory. In its ninth canto, Dante places these words in the mouth of the angelic guardian of Purgatory’s gate who, displaying his keys, tells his listeners: I hold them from St. Peter—who bade […]
by bcadmin | Oct 19, 2021 | Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Mass, News, Orthodoxy, penance, Penitential Rite | 0 |
Immediately after the greeting offered by the priest, the Congregation is invited to an Examination of Conscience. All must humbly admit, acknowledge, and confess that we spiritually fall short. In blunt, we are all sinners. However, that is precisely the reason for Jesus’ coming to earth. Jesus came to save us from sin and its […]
by bcadmin | Sep 30, 2021 | Angels, Best of Week, Featured, guardian angels, News, Orthodoxy, Sophia Excerpts | 0 |
Dear Father Kerper: A friend of mine, who is a very devout Catholic,always talks about her so-called Guardian Angel. I heard about these angels when I was a child. Now that I’m an adult I regard them as legends or myths made up to make children feel safe. Are Guardian Angels real? Is there anything […]
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