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Headlines Pope Francis makes a special plea! Are Catholics deaf or will they listen? By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | January 27, 2014 Pope Francis continues to call for aid to the poor as the holiday season ends. The Holy Father has set a goal to eradicate global hunger by distributing food more equitably around the world and he has called on all faithful Catholics to help. It's a call that can't be answered by a single second collection at Mass. Continue Reading... Heroic Hobby Lobby Calls Faithful Christians To Courageous Resistance By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 26, 2014 We're Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles. I've always said that the first two goals of our business are (1) to run our business in harmony with God's laws, and (2) to focus on people more than money. And that's what we've tried to do.We close early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our stores closed on Sundays, one of the week's biggest shopping days, so that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest.Being Christians, we don't pay for drugs that might cause abortions, which means that we don't cover emergency contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception, something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. Continue Reading... Feminine presence desired in church, Pope Francis says By CNA/EWTN News | January 26, 2014 Pope Francis met with a group of Italian women today, expressing his desire for women to participate more widely in the Church and in society without neglecting the family. Continue Reading... Are We Comatose or Just Suffering from Amnesia? By Michael Seagriff | January 25, 2014 'After 20 centuries of miracles from Cana to Fatima, after 20 centuries of martyrs, after 20 centuries of sanctity in every walk of life, after centuries of intellectual brilliance (Augustine, Aquinas, Bonaventure, Scotus), after all the truth that has been poured out by the Fathers, Doctors and ecclesiastical writers, by the 20 Ecumenical Councils of the Church, the infallible pronouncements of our Pontiff.after all this, the world is as pagan today as when Christ was born and had to flee. Perhaps more so... God, in his world today, is as hidden to most people as he was when in Egypt's exile.' Continue Reading...  The Monk Named Benedict in the Vatican Cloister and the Need for a Monastic Revival By Deacon Keith Fournier | January 25, 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 25, 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 25, 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...
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