Editorials of Interest
Pope celebrates Mass for 1.3 million people in Lima - Catholic Herald
Pope Francis took his message of hope to this sprawling, dusty capital of Peru, celebrating Mass within view of the rocky, waterless Andean slopes where most of the city's poorest residents live.
By What Authority? - First Things
The pope cannot add anything to the revelation given to us in Scripture and Tradition, nor can he change the content of previous dogmatic definitions.
Kindness Is Not the Same as Love - Community in Mission
Kindness too often looks merely to relieve whereas true love looks to heal, something that often involves painful choices.
New Survey Examines the Lives of Catholic Women - epicPew
The survey asked women about issues such as prayer, vocational discernment, parish life, Mass attendance, reconciliation, women deacons, politics, and women's experience of sexism with the Catholic Church.
New Los Angeles ministry aims to help families of the imprisoned - Catholic World Report
Deacon Paulino Juarez and Deacon Louis Roche, both of the archdiocese, head up a new ministry that reaches out to families of the incarcerated and raises awareness in local communities of the suffering and challenges that these families face.
Purity and Prejudice - First Things
Unmooring sexuality from the home, from marriage, and from religion has benefitted nobody more than lecherous, grasping men.
Who cheats? The demographics of faith and infidelity - Catholic World Report
According to a recent survey, people who attended religious services at least semi-regularly were less likely to cheat on their spouses than people who attended religious services once a year or less.
Eminem and Gandhi Are Right - Weekly Standard
In church or out of it, macro-humans both present and to come are finding more reasons than ever to question the baleful assault on humanity licensed 45 years ago
The Deadly Legacy of Eugenics - First Things
Many people believe that German crimes in the medical context were Hitler's idea, or were purely a product of Nazi ideology. Not true.
Of Television — and Liturgy - The Catholic Thing
The Church has always had her doubts about theater and other forms of entertainment because of the false vision of life that they present in such convincing ways. It's our task to remain vigilant, to maintain a different way of viewing things.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |