Editorials of Interest
The great exorcism boom - Catholic Herald
From Manila to Mexico City Catholic priests are leading a new and sometimes spectacular crusade against demonic possession.
Can Bad Catholic Music be stopped? - Catholic Herald
When Benedict XVI was in his prime choirmasters quietly reintroduced chant and polyphony to Catholic parishes. But it may have been too little too late.
People who think Jesus didn't exist are seriously confused - Catholic Herald
Forty percent of British people think Jesus never really existed — a terrible indictment on their ability to understand history and evidence that 40% of us cannot distinguish between history and myth, historical personages and fictional characters.
Suffering Shame - Patheos
Depression isn't something you can see from the outside, and neither is financial hardship.
The Gift of Singleness - Spiritual Friendship
Singleness is a gift, it is a good gift, and it should be savoured.
There's More to Life Than Being Happy - The Atlantic
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself — be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself — by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love — the more human he is.
Two Years Among the Liberal Theologians - CWR
All believing Catholics who seek to understand what it is they believe are Catholic theologians, which means that Ross Douthat is a Catholic theologian.
Watching Liberalism Flail - The Navel Observatory
Activism that looks for problematic content like gendered language and unsafe imagery is a way for privileged people to reassure themselves that they are doing good, even while they in no way adjust the balance of political and economic power in our society.
Hi God, I Don't Love You - Aleteia
I needed to know for sure whether God existed. So I did what every sane miscreant trying to disprove God does; I went to Mass.
The Tangled Cultural Roots of Dungeons & Dragons - NY Times
For creator Gary Gygax, war games offered not just a dreamy retreat from the real world, but a prism through which to examine it. It is a perspective that seems increasingly prescient as the line between the virtual and the actual continues to blur.
The Concern of a Canine - The Cinch Revier
Billie never considers whether she has "time" to express concern or not; neither does she consider whether anyone will be embarrassed by her concern, least of all herself.
The Room that is the World - Fare Forward
We tend not to recognize when our neighbor is struggling until their pain and suffering boils over and breaks the surface; for many of us, our own burdens seem like enough to bear.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |