[Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a five-part series on “Renewing the Church and Transforming the World.” Click here to read the first article, second article, and third article.] The charisms and needs of singles are not based upon age, but upon state in life. What singles experience and need at age 25
Recent popes have emphasized that youth won't even listen to teachers unless they are first and foremost witnesses. And yet, at the same time, our society has a perverse desire to see good people fall from grace. Take the moral high ground and you become a target. Our zeal for the truth of Jesus Christ
[Editor's Note: This article is the third in a series of six articles celebrating the Year of the Eucharist. Click here to read the first article and second article.] When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds . . . I will remember my covenant that is between
[Editor's Note: This article is the second in a series of articles celebrating the Year of the Eucharist. Click here to read the first article.] Every Sunday, millions of people around the world participate in Mass. While a particular liturgical celebration may have a lector who mumbles, a boring homily, or off-key music, most who
[Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a five-part series on “Renewing the Church and Transforming the World.” Click here to read the first article and second article.] In my travels across the country speaking on the topic of single life, I often take side trips to interview people about what they are looking
In my family’s diverse experiences with adoption, I have witnessed firsthand how today’s “culture of death” has adversely affected the public’s perception of adoption. We need to rehabilitate adoption as a healthy, pro-life life alternative, not only on a societal level, but within our own families and, indeed, within our own hearts. Over the course
My wife Maureen and I do what we can to pass on the ABCs of the Catholic faith to our children. We require them to learn their catechism, memorize Scripture verses, and participate in the sacred liturgy and family devotions. It gives me great joy to see my children fulfill these requirements enthusiastically and well.
Monsignor Michael R. Schmitz was ordained by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1982. Msgr. Schmitz, 47, is German-born and educated, but now serves as the US Provincial Superior of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. Msgr. Schmitz oversees the US branch of this new order of priests devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass. He
[Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a five-part series on “Renewing the Church and Transforming the World.” Click here to read the first article.] It is certainly true that everyone in society is affected by the trend away from the concept of family and common good and toward the concept of personal rights
Editor's note: This following article was written by this CE viewer in response to the Gabriele Kuby article, “Ten Arguments Against Harry Potter” which appeared in this space last week. Kuby Argument 1. Harry Potter is a global long-term project to change the culture. In this generation of youths, inhibitions against magic and the occult
First off, let me say right now that I understand that Catholic Charities runs several different programs (which vary by diocese) for the developmentally disabled and mentally retarded. I am not saying that we, as Catholics, do nothing for the disabled. Why Are We So Ill-Equipped? What I am saying, as the mother of a
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