Editorials of Interest
Call to Arms - First Things
As soon as it was announced that Benedict XVI and Cardinal Robert Sarah had published a book defending priestly celibacy, they were accused of attacking Pope Francis.
Rome's Shame in China - Robert Royal
China is a large, strange, complex, contradictory thing, even before you get to the large, strange, complex, contradictory, and murderous form of Communism that has come to dominate its various peoples.
When does the Christmas season end? - Joan's Rome
Traditionally, the feast of Candlemas (the Presentation of the Lord) occurred on February 2 and marked the final conclusion of the Christmas cycle.
How to be more humble — and why it matters so much - Aleteia
Now that we've all gone through the ritual of making and then almost immediately abandoning our New Year's resolutions for the 18th year in a row, there may be a more appropriate self-improvement project to consider: humility.
Old Testament God vs. New Testament God - YouTube
How come the God of the Old Testament seems so much more harsh and judgmental and oriented towards justice than the God of the New Testament, who seems more kind and gentle and merciful?
Abuse, Trauma, and the Body of Christ - CWR
Absent an honest and truthful admission of our brokenness, and the telling of the whole story, we can never find freedom and healing — let alone restore the Church's bella figura.
From Homers to Heroes: Reeling Men Back to the Faith - Roman Catholic Man
The religious practice of the father, above all, determines the future attendance at or absence from church of the children. If this is true, then we have been missing the forest for the trees in our attempts to bring people back to the fold.
No Church for Young Men - Crisis Magazine
Fathers more than anyone dramatically impact their children's future religious practice, and if parishes want children to retain their faith in adulthood (which is the purpose of youth ministry), they should focus not on the children but on the fathers.
The Martini Curve revisited - CWR
Is there a single example, anywhere, of a local Church where a frantic effort to catch up with 21st-century secularism has led to a wave of conversions to Christ?
The Nondiscrimination Dance - First Things
In today's environment, a religious school that voluntarily publishes a nondiscrimination statement including words like "orientation," "gender," and "expression" will have unwittingly undermined its religious mission by opening the door to secular interpretations of those words.
Laughing at dead babies and the avenging conscience - Little Catholic Bubble
Horrifying as their stories are, it makes sense that they joked about what they were doing, to the point of mocking the dead babies themselves. For one to cooperate in an unthinkable evil, one must assuage the avenging conscience in some way or another.
The Traumatic Foundation of Gender Dysphoria - Crisis Magazine
We live in a culture that says you can become — and, in fact, are — whatever you think you are, so few people dare question the transgender person's idea of reality.
Latin America's Lost Decade - NC Register
Despite the election of the first pope from Latin America in 2013, the past decade has mostly been a march backward, both for secular society and for the Church.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |