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Headlines The Monk Named Benedict in the Vatican Cloister and the Need for a Monastic Revival By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 24, 2014 I must admit, my heart is often drawn back to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. I miss him. He was and is such a humble and holy man. Now, he is a monk. I believe that the monastic life he has now chosen will not only continue his path to sanctity, but strengthen the whole Church and add to the theological treasury of the Church. Monks are themselves a treasure of the Church. No matter how much formal theological study they have, it is their depth of prayer which makes them the best of theologians. So it is with His Holiness, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. Evagrius of Pontus once wrote "a theologian is one who prays and one who prays is a theologian." Continue Reading... Deal Hudson: A Parable About Beauty By Deal W. Hudson | January 24, 2014 Father squeezed their hands and slowly let go, saying, "You have my blessing, but more importantly all beautiful things you love will no longer bring you sadness but the fullness of joy. All I ask you to do is tell others, "Look to Jesus Christ not only for truth and goodness, but for Beauty: The unity of all three in Christ creates a splendor that illumines the Truth and draws every person towards the Good." Continue Reading... To Love the Liturgy is to Love the Lord and Live on the Horizon Where Heaven Touches Earth By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 24, 2014 If the figure of Christ does not emerge from the liturgy, it is not a Christian liturgy. As Blessed John Paul II wrote, "the mystery of the Eucharist is 'too great a gift' to admit of ambiguities or reductions, above all when, 'stripped of its sacrificial meaning, it is celebrated as if it were simply a fraternal banquet'. Worship cannot come from our imagination: that would be a cry in the darkness or mere self-affirmation. True liturgy supposes that God responds and shows us how we can adore Him. The Church lives in His presence - and its reason for being and existing is to expand His presence in the world.- Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI  Catholic Renewal and the Beautiful By Deal W Hudson | January 23, 2014 [T]he most convincing demonstration of [faith's] truth against every denial, are the saints, and the beauty that the faith has generated. Today, for faith to grow, we must lead ourselves and the persons we meet to encounter the saints and to enter into contact with the Beautiful. How much lost "connectedness" would be recovered if more attention were paid to encounters with "the Beautiful" in the liturgy, so that it was never perfunctory, listless, or offensive to the ear and eye? - Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI Continue Reading... Beauty in Culture and the Salvation of Souls By Deal W. Hudson | January 22, 2014 What did Fyodor Dostoevsky mean in The Idiot when one of his characters asserts, "Beauty will save the world?" Taken at face value, it's a claim that beauty plays a role in the salvation of us all. It also contains the implication that the culture surrounding us, as the platform where much of the world's beauty is displayed, fits into the plan of our salvation.Our unending delight is found in the beauty of God, in His presence to our souls. Yet beauty is also part of the journey, not just the destination. Continue Reading... Roe v Wade: After 41 Years and 56 Million Dead Children, the Evil of Legalized Abortion Must End By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 23, 2014 Without recognizing this first Right to Life there can be no recognition of any other derivative human rights. In fact, the entire infrastructure of human rights is placed at risk. All true Human Rights are goods of human persons. When there is no human person there can be no rights endowed upon them or exercised by them. All the other rights talk in the world will not change that. Every procured abortion is intrinsically immoral. It takes an innocent human life. Our position concerning the objective truth that every procured abortion is intrinsically immoral requires a public action. It is not simply a matter of personal opinion. Children are dying. Not opposing that horror and seeking to bring it to an end never serves the common good. Continue Reading... Comfortable in His Catholic Skin: The Ecumenical Courage of Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 23, 2014 Some Catholics are heating up the blogosphere, making deeply uncharitable comments about Cardinal Seán Patrick O'Malley. They all center on his humble act of asking Anne Robertson, a Methodist Minister, to pray for him. The simple prayer of blessing involved the use of water, to symbolize our common Baptism as Christians. I assert that it showed the humble heart of a Franciscan Friar, priest, Bishop and Cardinal who is comfortable in his Catholic Skin. It took courage and humility. It should be admired and imitated, not criticized. Continue Reading... The Catholic Church: The Last Institution By Deal W. Hudson | January 22, 2014 Empires have come and gone, as have epochs - the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the Romantic Age, and the Modern - but the Catholic Church has remained, and now it's arguably the Last Institution. The only certain bedrock in our culture is the natural law, and the Catholic Church is the only institution that believes in it. Those who rail against institutionalized religion have not thought seriously about the temporal nature of human existence. The passing of time does not destroy the wisdom of the past, rather it stores it away. A vision suddenly disclosing itself in time does not necessarily fade into a corrupted shadow of itself. Therefore, time may seem fluid, but it carries truth into the future. Time and eternity are not like oil and water - they cannot be mixed. That's where you will find the Catholic Church and all who are Her members. Continue Reading...
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