Twelve Surprises About Catholicism and Evangelicalism
Over the past dozen years I’ve had the amazing and accidental opportunity to do something few...
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Daily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Henry Newman
“God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission — I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next… I...
Read MoreDaily Catholic Quote from Blessed John Henry Newman
“I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well...
Read MoreA Candle in a Dark World
“I just wanted to light a candle…” I thought as I scanned the ancient stone walls of the Cathedral. My eyes gazed at the sheer beauty of the Gothic-style architecture built over 1,000 years ago. Just then a brisk rush of wind...
Read MoreDaily Quote from G. K. Chesterton
So far as a man may be proud of a religion rooted in humility, I am very proud of my religion; I am especially proud of those parts of it that are most commonly called superstition. I am proud of being fettered by antiquated...
Read MoreA Strategy for the New Evangelization
Some weeks ago, I gave a sermon in which I mentioned Keith Richards, the lead guitarist for the Rolling Stones. I recounted how struck I was by a passage from Richards’s autobiography in which the guitarist described the almost...
Read MoreA Religion You Couldn’t Have Guessed – Thoughts on Rome
We wound through cobble stone streets into piazza after piazza. We ducked into glorious church after glorious church wallpapered in masterpieces and lined with artifacts, bones and the occasional saintly arm. After miles of...
Read MoreDaily Quote from Blessed John Henry Newman
I want a laity, not arrogant, not rash in speech, not disputatious, but men who know their religion, who enter into it, who know just where they stand, who know what they hold and what they do not, who know their creed so well...
Read MoreI Fall To My Knees
I Fall To My Knees (A Reflection on Eucharistic Adoration) In the True Presence of Christ, I fall to my knees. I am humbled to be so near Him in the form of the Eucharist. A feeling of peace and joy comes over me. I start to...
Read MoreDaily Quote from Fr. Benedict Groeschel
One thing that is not being tried in any particularly enthusiastic way by people who call themselves Catholic is Catholicism. – Fr. Benedict Groeschel, The Reform of Renewal, 1990 Print this...
Read MoreThe Rise of Cross-less Catholicism
I read a very good article this morning by Fr. James Schall, S.J. on the rise of Cross-less Catholicism in the world. His points are spot on as he writes about schools, especially Catholic schools, watering down the perceived...
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