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Sophistry Slouching Toward Apostasy: Response to the Commonweal Essay of Joseph Bottum

By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 27, 2013

I read the 9,000 word essay entitled The Things We Share: A Catholic's Case for Same-Sex Marriage last weekend. It was written by Joseph Bottum for Commonweal magazine. In fact, I read it several times. Each time, it broke my heart at an even deeper level. The first thing I did was to pray about my response. I decided to wait until I could let my emotional reaction to it calm down a bit. I knew the utter despair that this essay would generate in the broader, faithful Christian community.

Tuesday Homily: Giving Ourselves, Together With the Gospel

By Fr. Roger J. Landry | August 27, 2013

It was because of Monica's ceaseless prayers and tears that not only did her son "not perish" but became the great Saint Augustine. But it was also because of her persevering prayers and tears for both her son and her husband that she became the great Saint Monica.

Decoding the Encyclical Letter 'Lumen Fidei', Light of Faith

By Fr Dr Santhosh Sebastian Cheruvally | August 27, 2013

Lumen Fidei categorically states that faith illuminating life means Christ affecting our life and our convictions. Indeed a christification of our life and commitments, convictions and values are called for. It is in this sense, "Faith in Christ brings salvation because in him our lives become radically open to a love that precedes us, a love that transforms us from within, acting in us and through us." (Cf. Chapter 1, no. 20.) The encyclical is clear: What is communicated in the Church, what is handed down in her living Tradition, is the new light born of an encounter with the true God, a light which touches us at the core of our being and engages our minds, wills and emotions, opening us to relationships lived in communion

MONDAY HOMILY: Blessings and Woes

By Fr. Stephen B. Reynolds | August 27, 2013

Jesus gives great importance to the virtue of sincerity. To be sincere is to live in the truth, and the source of all truth is God. To be sincere involves living as God would have us do, so that our desires, words, and actions are authentic and all spring from the same source. The visible forms of the faith serve to cultivate and reinforce an interior disposition of belief, conversion, and worship.

Abp. Chaput on Why Faith Matters: Belief As a Cornerstone of What it Means to be Human

By Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. | August 26, 2013

When Christians talk about "the dignity of the human person" and "the sanctity of human life," we're putting into words what all people instinctively know. Unique in nature, and unlike any other creature, something elevated and sacred in men and women demands our special respect. When we violate that human dignity, we do evil. When we serve it, we do good. And therein lies one of many modern ironies. We live in a society that speaks piously about protecting the environment and rescuing species on the brink of extinction. But then it licenses the killing of unborn children and the abuse of human fetal tissue as lab material. (Archbishop Chaput)

SUNDAY HOMILY: The Happy Priest - Passion for Heaven

By Fr. James Farfaglia | August 26, 2013

The same Jesus that Pier Giorgio Frassati loved with so much passion is calling you to live that same authentic Christian life that he lived.

Pope Francis may be giving you a telephone call real soon!

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | August 24, 2013

Strangers have been getting a most surprising - but welcome telephone call. Pope Francis has adopted the process of calling back people who send him letters asking for spiritual advice. It's just the latest wrinkle in a pope who stresses simplicity and a more personal approach.

Poster Couple for an Anti-Theology of the Body

By Andrew M. Greenwell, Esq. | August 26, 2013

The LGBT crowd has been busy touting as poster children to their cause the strange and curious (and one might say perverse) engagement of the transgender Welsh couple Jamie Eagle and Louis Davies. Behind all of this propaganda is an erroneous view of the human person, even what might be called an "anti-theology of the body."

Worldwide Christian Persecution Reveals the Rise of Evil and Grace

By Michael Terheyden | August 26, 2013

The evil inflicted on these brave Christian souls fills me with sadness and anger, but their response to this evil inspires me and fills me with hope. I know it may seem strange to say, but there is a great good here as well as evil, and the good is stronger.

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