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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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| Note from the Managing Editor |
This week's reflection presents something to remember in this time of scandal: "The experience of love [is] something so great in itself that it [does] not need to be justified by anything else." There is no reason to justify our membership in the Church because the only reason that should justify our membership is being in love with God. See "Hearts That Cling to God."
We have many worthy articles, but I particularly recommend Francis X. Maier's "Voodoo and Its Enchantments" in which he discusses the corruption of words like equality, diversity, inclusion, and tolerance. "Language, disconnected from the roots of truth … invariably turns into an instrument of power."
One aspect of this power, writes Maier, is that sane people "feel powerless to push back." I think sane people can also be legitimately confused by this labyrinthian language. A recent example has cropped up in discussions in my own life: Why is it that the same people who shout "My body, my choice" are those who advocate a vaccine mandate?
I think their philosophy is actually consistent. "My body, my choice" justifies the killing of an unborn baby — but the words are a lie. They really mean "Your body, my choice." When it comes to vaccine mandates, a consistent ethic.
To me, it shows the power of lies repeated over time. Even we, who know the truth, forget that they're not true.
Thank you for your continued prayers. God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"Do not free a camel from the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel." - G.K. Chesterton
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| Hearts That Cling to God |
| Ronda Chervin, Church of Love |
| A person who has not fallen in love with the God who gives himself in the Church cannot understand the life of the Church. |
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| Voodoo and Its Enchantments |
| Francis X. Maier, The Catholic Thing |
| George Orwell, the writer, and Josef Pieper, the Catholic philosopher, came from very different backgrounds. |
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| Blessed Father Charles de Foucauld |
| John Janaro, Magnificat |
| He called himself the "little brother of Jesus," and he became a saint by bringing the presence of Christ's love to the poorest of the poor on the margins of the Sahara Desert. |
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| Being Liberal in Our Homes |
| John A. Cuddeback, LifeCraft |
| "…the liberal man will both give and spend the right amounts and on the right objects, alike in small things and in great." - Aristotle |
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| Oedipus at Colonus in a Nutshell |
| Joseph Pearce, Crisis Magazine |
| As we saw in the previous essay in this series, Oedipus Rex presents the riddle of man without offering any solution. |
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| On the Credibility of the Catholic Church |
| Adoremus |
| If the Church wishes to lead the men and women of today to encounter Christ, she will do so not only through the truth of faith and the soundness of her moral teaching, but also in the privileged place of the liturgy. |
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| The Fake Theology Behind Vaccine Mandates |
| Crisis Magazine |
| The most "authoritative" document, the CDF's Note on the Morality of Using Some Anti-Covid-19 Vaccines, was written not to urge people to get a COVID-19 vaccine but to inform them that in their judgment using the vaccine is morally acceptable, provided some criteria are met. |
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| 5 luftballons: What happened in Frankfurt |
| The Pillar |
| The delegates of Germany's "synodal path" met in Frankfurt last week for a three-day meeting that aimed to set the agenda for future meetings, while signaling support for several controversial proposals connected to the synodal project. |
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| Looking Back To Look Forward |
| The Catholic Thing |
| A few years ago, Andrew Willard Jones wrote a book Before Church and State, which has only grown in relevance since the time when it appeared. |
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| The intellectual appeal of Catholicism |
| CWR |
| Grace is required to bring the desire for truth — which any intellectually inclined person possesses — toward God, who has called the Catholic intellectual through no merit of his own. |
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