It seems to me that at the heart of the scandals is infidelity–literally the lack of faith. There are priests, including bishops and even cardinals, who do not believe in God, or whose belief in God is merely notional (as definitively evidenced by their lack of fear of Him)...
People are not happy about this! The World Meeting of Families is scheduled to take place next week in Dublin, Ireland. This is the 9th such meeting since 1994, and since it’s such an important occasion, the organizers decided to make special vestments. And they are being pilloried on...
I recently posted how the Church is on fire and some of the telltale signs of such a fire. I purposely did not give solutions. That would be done after a few days reaction time. I did not think the post would garner anywhere near the attention it did. I...
The Catholic Church in this country is on fire and has been for decades. Did we not see that when people started bolting for the doors, leaving confessionals in cobwebs, Masses empty, and once thriving parishes mere shells of themselves. Did we not see that when seminaries, religious houses of...
When I was going through school, the devil was presented to us as a myth, a literary device, a symbolic manner of signaling the presence of evil in the world. I will admit to internalizing this view and largely losing my sense of the devil as a real spiritual person....
This is so funny – but also makes a great point! God is not just for “religious” things, God is the Creator and King of the Universe! Everything in the world, every part of our lives and of human society, should be consecrated and offered back to Him. That’s why...
