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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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| Note from the Managing Editor |
This week, our new resources proclaim many messages we need to hear.
When open political resistance is impossible, writes Francis X. Maier, "The 'power of the powerless' [resides] in those citizens who simply [refuse] to cooperate with the lies; citizens who [insist] on speaking and living the truth, no matter the cost."
"Strong men and women don't stay strong by self-pampering," Jerome German writes. "Most of us live without regimen; that is, without a lifestyle plan for maintaining spiritual strength." He then lists eleven concrete practices we can begin to implement. See "Weak Men Create Hard Times."
In "The Necessary Pain of Grief and Healing," Jenny duBay explains a hard truth: "God doesn't rescue us from every tragedy in our lives ... but He does walk with us, through the heart of the storm, so we can reach our own personal resurrection."
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"The greatest grace of God can give someone is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers—and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved." - St. Justin Martyr
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| The Glory of Sharing in Christ's Chalice |
| Pope Benedict XVI, Libreria Editrice Vaticana |
| James was able to take part, together with Peter and John, in Jesus' agony in the Garden of Gethsemane and in the Transfiguration. |
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| Weak Men Create Hard Times |
| Jerome German, Crisis Magazine |
| "Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times." |
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| You've Been Warned |
| Theodore Dalrymple, Taki's Magazine |
| Yesterday I received a letter from England that bore the postmark "Dog Awareness Week." It came with a printed paw-mark. |
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| Manners: One Major Reason Why |
| John Cuddeback, LifeCraft |
| "These people will also discover the seemingly insignificant conventions their predecessors have destroyed… |
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| Pre-Reformation Polyphony among the Recusants |
| Corpus Christi Watershed |
| With the passing of Queen Elizabeth (requiescat in pace), British affairs have been very much in the public consciousness, as we all reflect on her life and career. |
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| The Mission of Fatherhood |
| William E. May |
| The mission of fatherhood is to reveal and relive on earth the very fatherhood of God. |
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| Humility, Prudence, and Other Lost Virtues |
| The Imaginative Conservative |
| Democracy requires compromise, and compromise requires the two virtues lacking most in American society—prudence and humility. What hope is there, then, now that technology and social media have only deepened the virtue deficit? |
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| Charles in Charge |
| NY Times |
| His whole life, King Charles has been in the shadow of women with more star power. |
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| Drinking with the Saints Podcast |
| Catholic Culture |
| One of the latest podcasts I've discovered is the Drinking with the Saints podcast: A Sinner's Guide to a Holy Happy Hour with Michael and Alexandra Foley. |
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| Seeing With the Eye of Sauron: Amazon’s “Rings of Power” |
| The Imaginative Conservative |
| The whole point of The Lord of the Rings is that true heroism is inseparable from true humility, and that true humility is inseparable from true love. The spirit of Amazon's Rings of Power is the very reverse of this. |
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