I write these words in the Rome airport, on my way to England, where I will deliver a paper on St. John Henry Newman and evangelization. I’m still basking in the glow of the splendid Mass of canonization yesterday, presided over by Pope Francis and attended by tens of thousands of bishops, priests, and faithful from all over the world. […]
Saint John Henry Newman
Help my unbelief: The lesson of Peter of Prague
This Sunday, we celebrate the feast of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, or Corpus Christi. As I wrote last year, the feast was established to strengthen belief in the Real Presence, to encourage people to draw close to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, and to make reparation for sacrilege committed against the Eucharist. While we remember and celebrate […]
Four Starting Points for a Well-Formed Laity
In my last post, I was little strong about the need for a well-formed laity. It’s no secret that we have suffered for years from a lack of solid catechesis in most communities and the effects only increase – exponentially—as the years pass. Much ink has been spilled on what we can do as a Church to remedy the problem. We […]
What the Church (and world) needs from you
Graduation season is upon us, when everyone from Ph.D. candidates to preschoolers don gowns and caps to accept accolades and degrees for their hard work. For some of these graduates, their work as students is finished. As humans, the quest for knowledge must never have a conclusion. Sadly, for many Catholics, their completion of Catholic high school or their reception […]
Unfaithful “Catholic” Colleges
In 1972, the Venerable Fulton Sheen said something like, “I recommend that my relatives send their college-bound children to secular colleges where they will have to fight for their faith, rather than to Catholic colleges where it will be stolen from them.” Catholics in America stand witness to so-called “catholic” colleges as onlookers once looked on the naked emperor without […]
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed John Henry Newman
“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.” (Blessed John Henry Newman) Print this entry
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed John Henry Newman
“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning.” (Blessed John Henry Newman) Print this entry
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed John Henry Newman
“We all suffer for each other, and gain by each other’s sufferings; for man never stands alone here, though he will stand by himself one day hereafter; but here he is a social being, and goes forward to his long home as one of a large company.” (Blessed John Henry Newman; A Grammar of Assent) Print this entry
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed John Henry Newman
“The Virgin and Child is not a mere modern idea; on the contrary, it is represented again and again, as every visitor to Rome is aware, in the paintings of the Catacombs. Mary is there drawn with the Divine Infant in her lap, she with hands extended in prayer, He with His hand in the attitude of blessing.” (Blessed John Henry […]
Catholic Quote of the Day — from Blessed John Henry Newman
“The Virgin and Child is not a mere modern idea; on the contrary, it is represented again and again, as every visitor to Rome is aware, in the paintings of the Catacombs. Mary is there drawn with the Divine Infant in her lap, she with hands extended in prayer, He with His hand in the attitude of blessing.” (Blessed John Henry […]