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Serving Catholics for 25 Years
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| Note from the Managing Editor |
In our meditation this week, Pope Benedict XVI tells us "the temptation to interpret religious practice as a source of privileges or security is always lying in wait. Actually, Christ's message goes in exactly the opposite direction."
Mary Cuff writes "Mothers of Men," which speaks to the challenge of raising boys (and girls) "in a world that would usurp our parental roles and bend our children's identities to the point of breaking."
I loved Russell Shaw's "A Tale of Two Crises" because—while he explains the problems facing the Church and says, "Much of the burden of sustaining American Catholicism in the years ahead will inevitably rest on lay shoulders"—he tell us what we'll have to do (and can start doing even now).
A couple weeks ago, we published an interview with Edward Short, whose collection of Catholic poetry, The Saint Mary's Book of Christian Verse, was recently published. This week we print its edifying introduction.
God bless you all this week! - Meaghen Gonzalez
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"It's impossible to lose your footing when you're on your knees." - Venerable Fulton Sheen
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| Papal Angelus Sunday, 26 August 2007 |
| Pope Benedict XVI, Libreria Editrice Vaticana |
| Dear Brothers and Sisters, today's liturgy presents to us enlightening yet at the same time disconcerting words of Christ. |
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| Mothers of Men |
| Mary Cuff, Crisis Magazine |
| There's a story about the greatest of all heroes, Achilles. |
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| A Tale of Two Crises |
| Russell Shaw, The Catholic Thing |
| In comments to a gathering of conservative Catholic college professors recently, I remarked that in modern times American Catholicism has experienced two major crises: the post-Conciliar crisis right after Vatican Council II and the post-post-Conciliar crisis now underway with no end in sight. |
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| Introduction to The Saint Mary's Anthology of Christian Verse |
| Edward Short, The Saint Mary's Anthology of Christian Verse |
| Recently, I was amused to see that Philip Larkin—by any chalk a fairly decided critic—in making his selections for The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse (1973) chose to rely rather heavily on the taste and judgement of his well-read friend Monica Jones, which confirms my now well-earned sense that compiling an anthology of poetry is no cakewalk. |
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| Choose to Fight the Battle Against Sin |
| Fr. Nnamdi Moneme, Catholic Exchange |
| I was momentarily confused and disoriented in my early years of seminary formation before I received a consoling advice from a priest in the confessional. |
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| 5 Ways To Renew Your Prayer Life This Fall |
| Blessed Is She |
| As we observe the seasons moving from one to another, we welcome the refreshing changes that fall promises. We also sense a desire for change in our hearts, too. |
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| First Principles |
| Underground Thomist |
| I have been wondering about self-evident first principles. They can't be proven, because you can't deduce them from other truths. So what makes them true and self-evident? |
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| Jewish-Free Zones at University of Berkeley |
| The Eponymous Flower |
| If it wasn't so frightening, one might be able to recognize the irony in the sight of campus progressives trying so hard to signal progressive virtue that they fall victim to a deeper moral shame. |
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| The Errors of Russia from Dostoevsky to Putin |
| OnePeter5 |
| The recent deaths of former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev and Orthodox Metropolitan Kallistos (Timothy) Ware brought forth eulogies, remembrances, and commentary in both the secular and religious spheres. |
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| How To Make a 'Trans Kid' |
| Reality's Last Stand |
| Since adults typically make difficult converts, gender activists are increasingly turning their focus to children. |
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| Is Jeffrey Dahmer in Heaven? |
| Fr. Dwight Longenecker |
| One of the problems with "real crime" programs is that they pander to our curiosity about evil and, in focusing on the monsters of depravity, too often neglect the suffering of their victims. |
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