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This Insights eNewsletter was sent to subscribers on January 30, 2024.

eNewsletter Subject: Prizing the good of the Church

I'm convinced that we Catholics often fail to take the Church seriously, and yet it ought to be to us as the Temple and Jerusalem were supoosed to be to the Jews in the Old Testament—the bearer of God's promises and God's protection, and the locus of His special Presence.

That's why I've mined Scripture this week to explain: Why we must pray for the Church, and one way to do it.

This is doubtless also one of the reasons that Fr. Jerry Pokorsky has written about The Dignity of Celibacy, which is clearly a special sign of God’s spousal relationship with the Church, His Bride.

In Phil Lawler’s latest and light-hearted post, which responds to Pope Francis’ praise of tennis players for their commitment to...dialogue, we have an example of the strange effort by several recent popes at making a big spiritual thing out of sports. It is often worth a chuckle, and this instance is no exception: Competition as dialogue? A tennis player objects.

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