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Headlines Brothers in Arms: St Benedict and St Francis. By Fr Dwight Longenecker | March 12, 2014 How amazingly providential, then that we now have two popes: Pope Francis and Pope Emeritus Benedict! Pope Benedict following the Benedictine way by retiring to a life of prayer, study and work while Pope Francis steps on to the world stage to live the life of activity, reform and renewal. The two popes are meeting today, and I am convinced that when Pope Benedict moves to his hermitage in the Vatican, that the two of them will meet on a regular basis to support one another as brothers in arms. Continue Reading... Why America's Catholics Need an Apocalypse By Deal W. Hudson | March 12, 2014 There is nothing more clarifying to a group or an individual than an apocalyptic moment - when the choice you make in response to that disaster reveals the bottom line, what really matters. Once such moment occurred with the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973, out of which the very powerful and lasting pro-life movement was born. But we need to witness the birth of a larger, more audacious movement, a cultural movement, one that reorients the political towards a higher, more fundamental goal. Continue Reading... What will your Lenten Pledge be? By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | March 9, 2014 Catholic Online's 'Catholic Team Global is challenging the faithful to take our Lenten pledge. This Lent we are challenging you to make a real Catholic commitment of penitence, and make a difference that will truly help our fellow man. Continue Reading... Polish Bishops and Pope Francis Expose the Gender Identity Movement By Deacon Keith Fournier | March 12, 2014 The Gender Identity Movement insists upon recognition in the civil law of the State a new found, manufactured right to choose one's gender, and then to change ones mind, at any time. The proponents insist upon civil laws which accommodate, fund, and enforce this new right. Those involved in the activist wing of the movement want to compel the rest of society to recognize their vision of a brave new world or face the Police Power of the State. This is cultural insanity. Pope Emeritus Benedict was absolutely correct, "the profound falsehood of this theory and of the anthropological revolution contained within it is obvious." The Bishops of Poland were correct in warning the faithful of the dangers of the gender identity movement. Gender is a gift and the dangers of the Gender identity Movement must be exposed and opposed. Continue Reading... Courageous Cardinal George Challenges Us to Use Lent as a Time to Take Stock of Our Lives By Deacon Keith Fournier | March 11, 2014 Lent 2014 brings the death and resurrection of the Lord more insistently into the horizon of our lives. Before the Lord, we are all weak and needy, poor in who we are, rich in him. Grateful for our various callings and rejoicing in that poverty that opens us to God's grace, let us observe Lent together in prayer, penance and almsgiving. God bless you.- Francis Cardinal George Continue Reading... Deal Hudson on the Creed: What Kind of One is 'One God' By Deal W. Hudson | March 11, 2014 That the Cross was an unprecedented act of love was not recognized as such by His contemporaries until He appeared to them and His inscrutability was gradually replaced by His light. His Church through prayer, worship, and reflection would, over the next three centuries, piece together a new theology of God, a new understanding of God as Love. Love that exists first all in God, a Love shared between the three persons of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Cross and Resurrection would lead the Church to formulate a Trinitarian understanding of God to account for all revealed by God about Himself in both the Old and New Covenants. Continue Reading... Led by the Spirit into the Desert: God Does Not Need Lent, We Do By Deacon Keith Fournier | March 10, 2014 This ancient practice of setting aside 40 days in order to enter - in Jesus - into the desert places in our own daily lives and confront the temptations and struggles we face - is a gift. It comes from the Lord and is offered through the Church who is our mother. The Church as mother and teacher knows just what we need. We all know the truth and need to be honest, particularly so during Lent. We all struggle with disordered appetites and unconverted ways of thinking and living. We also demonstrate in our daily lives a lack of charity in our relationships with others. We have developed unhealthy habits which cause us untold sadness and impede our progress in virtue. None of these set us free or help us to flourish as human persons. They are the bad fruit of sin. The Desert of Lent is where we learn to conquer in the One who both shows us the Way and is Himself the Way. Continue Reading... Contemplatives in the World: Learning to Pray During the Forty Days of Lent By Deacon Keith Fournier | March 8, 2014 The prayer of Jesus opened the heavens, brought provision to the hungry, gave Him clarity for making decisions and brought the glory of heaven to earth and earth to heaven. Prayer still does all of this, and more, for all who will learn how to live their lives immersed in God as He did. Through prayer we recover the capacity for a communion of love with the living God and learn how to plunge ourselves into its embrace. Through prayer we cry out with - and in - Jesus, "Abba Father." No longer alienated from God, we participate in the inner life of God. God dwells in us and we dwell in Him through His Spirit. This is prayer. It is not so much about doing or getting but rather about being, receiving, giving, and loving. Through prayer, daily life takes on a new meaning. It becomes a classroom of communion. In that classroom we learn the truth about who we are - and who we are becoming - in Jesus. Continue Reading... Pope Francis: Jesus Became Poor, So that by His Poverty You Might Become Rich By Pope Francis | March 6, 2014 Dear brothers and sisters, may this Lenten season find the whole Church ready to bear witness to all those who live in material, moral and spiritual destitution the Gospel message of the merciful love of God our Father, who is ready to embrace everyone in Christ. We can do this to the extent that we imitate Christ who became poor and enriched us by his poverty. Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to help and enrich others by our own poverty. Let us not forget that real poverty hurts: no self-denial is real without this dimension of penance. I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt.
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