Note from the Assistant Editor:
We begin this week with a message from Pope Benedict XVI: trust.
Then we reprint the introduction and first chapter of Abba's Heart: Finding Our Way Back to the Father's Delight by Neal Lozano. In the words of Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, the book is "A powerful invitation to know God as our Father, to experience His fatherly love and to witness that love to others in our everyday lives."
"To meet the person who makes us feel as if we were simultaneously being brought electrically alive and killed — and to stay the course through the ensuing pilgrimage — is to embark on perhaps the most heroic and most perilous adventure of which a human being is capable." We are all made for this adventure. See "Dante Alighieri."
On May 8th, 2017 Amy Coney Barrett was nominated to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. On September 6th, she came before the Senate Judiciary Committee, where Senator Dianne Feinstein asked about her Catholic faith and said with no hint of irony, "The dogma lives loudly within you." In "Fencing with bigots," George Weigel imagines a satisfyingly logical defense.
We end with "The Harmony of the Cosmos" from Fr. George Rutler. "In physics six centuries before the Incarnation, Pythagoras discovered how harmonies issue from the ratios of vibrating strings, concluding that music, based on ratios of numbers, is the definitive principle ordering the world." There is a beautiful order to the world, and it leads us to Christ. - Meaghen Hale
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"Original sin attempts, then to abolish fatherhood destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man only with a sense of the master-slave relationship." St. John Paul II
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New Resources
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The Storm and Our Faith - Pope Benedict XVI - Angelus homily at Castle Gandolfo
The sea symbolizes this life and the instability of the visible world; the storm points to every kind of trial or difficulty that oppresses human beings.
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Abba's Heart: The Promise - Neal Lozano - chapter one of Abba's Heart: The Promise
I find it astounding the way many people have loved and served Jesus for years without knowing the love of God the Father.
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Dante Alighieri - Heather King - Magnificat
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Italian poet and moral philosopher, authored "The Divine Comedy".
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Fencing with bigots - George Weigel - The Catholic Difference
...being an imaginary dialogue between a nominee to a Federal appeals court and members of the Committee on the Judiciary of what once imagined itself "the world's greatest deliberative body"...
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On Refutation - Father James V. Schall, S.J. - The Catholic Thing
To "refute" and to "reform" have different meanings.
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The Harmony of the Cosmos - Father George W. Rutler - From the Pastor
When a mathematical problem stumped Professor Einstein, he played Mozart on his violin to put him "in touch with the harmony of the cosmos," and often the solution followed.
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27th Sinday in OT - Father John Horgan - CERC
The parable of the vineyard and the tenants.
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Editorials of Interest:
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Editorials of Interest
Las Vegas and the Angel of Despair - Patheos
Stephen Paddock said his brother had no political agenda, no terrorist leanings, and "no religious affiliation." In other words, here was a man who did not have a cause. He had nothing to live for.
Accepting the Gift of Suffering - The Catholic Thing
Support for physician-assisted suicide ultimately stems from the belief that eliminating suffering — physical, psychological, spiritual, or existential — is a higher moral good than sustaining life.
The Transformation of Theological Nonsense - First Things
No authentic renewal of Catholic life, and no effective response to the untruths that bedevil Catholicism today, will begin from the premise that "this is our Church and we must take it back." It is Christ's Church.
Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman and St. Justin Martyr, pray for us |
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