Infinite is the one great mystery of Christian faith. The more men ponder over its parts the more bewildering it appears, for the mystery of the Triune God is continually upholding its hidden power. How grandly impressive is Catholic worship! What …
Liberation Theology: KGB Construct or “Real Theology”?
Back in February, Dominican Father Gustavo Gutierrez was invited to speak at the Vatican by Cardinal Gerhard Müller, prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. Who is Fr. Guiterrez, you ask? He is the Peruvian priest, now in …
SNAP Targets Fr. Lockwood; Prayers Needed
Saint Louis Catholic has the scoop and analysis: There is Never Enough Blood to Satisfy the Enemies of the Church The group SNAP, which uses the sex abuse scandals in the Church as the cudgel for promoting itself and its …
A Fatima Novena for the Conversion of Muslims
In his great work, The World’s First Love, Archbishop Fulton Sheen tells us how the Church’s doctrine of Mary, the Mother of God, is always correcting the errors of the time. With the decree of the Immaculate Conception, the Church condemned …
ISIS Attack in Texas Should Be a Wake Up Call. Is it?
In the weeks that followed the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris, the American Freedom Defense Initiative booked the Curtis Culwell Center in Garland, Dallas for a free speech event offering a $10,000 cash prize to the person who could draw the …
Orchestral Mass in Charlotte This Past Weekend
An Orchestral Mass was offered in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina this past Saturday at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Mozart’s “Missa Brevis in B-flat Major” was sung by the Carolina Catholic Chorale, accompanied by chamber orchestra, under the direction …
Bishop Finn and the Ideological Battle in Kansas City
In my recent post, “What About the Rest of Bishop Finn’s Story”, I discussed the ideological and political dimensions of last week’s resignation of Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The motivation for the public relations …
Suggestions for the 2015 Synod on the Family
The following editorial by Father Peter Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., appears in the current (May/June) issue of The Catholic Response magazine. It is posted here with Father’s permission. When the Extraordinary Synod on the Family was announced and when it concluded, I …
What Did the Saints Say about Islam?
For Islamic scholars, there is a statement in the apostolic exhortation of Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, which is particularly troubling: Faced with disconcerting episodes of violent fundamentalism, our respect for true followers of Islam should lead us to avoid hateful generalisations, …
Pope Francis, Canon Law, and The Missionaries of Mercy
A couple weeks back, I excerpted a post from Oakes Spalding at his blog, Mahound’s Paradise, in which he questioned the purpose of Pope Francis’s proposed “Missionaries of Mercy”: Now, according to the Bull, the Mercy Squads will have additional …