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Outwitting Human Suffering
United to Christ's Cross, even our suffering can become redemptive. As Fulton Sheen famously observed, we often waste our suffering.
St. Leo the Great’s Teaching on Petrine Primacy
A summary of Pope St. Leo the Great's teaching on the office of the Bishop of Rome, and some samples of his preaching on other topics.
St. Leo the Great’s Teaching on Petrine Primacy
A summary of Pope St. Leo the Great's teaching on the office of the Bishop of Rome, and some samples of his preaching on other topics.
German synodality stalled. Hot air cooling?
At this point we are left wondering, under the relatively mild pontificate of Pope Leo, when someone will realize that it is not the emperor who has no clothes but rather all the little would-be emperors, who apparently see synodality as their chance at ecclesiastical influence. Or, if they already have ecclesiastical influence (as bishops do), synodality might either be an imposition they dare not resist or an opportunity to diffuse their responsibility.
Revisiting: Why early Church debates were more exciting
It is significant, I submit, that the main protagonists in today’s debates are typically identified as 'liberal' or 'conservative.' Only very rarely do we see a controversial stance denounced as Arian or Monophysite or even—dare I suggest—Modernist.
LifeSiteNews: An Autopsy
I remember when LifeSiteNews was on my list of sources to check almost every day to stay up-to-date on what was going on in the Catholic world. Those days are gone.
The treasure the Jesuits squandered
By rights “Mankowski” should be a household name among American Catholics. But during the most productive years of his life he was not traveling the lecture circuit, and his essays were not appearing regularly in print, because he was silenced by his Jesuit superiors: penalized for the “offense” of telling inconvenient truths.
Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 7—Liturgical Life a Source of the Interior Life
"The Liturgy is a school of the presence of God; and teaches us to stay in the presence of our God as He was manifested to us in the Incarnation! Call it rather a school of the presence of Jesus, and of love!"
From Gloria Steinem to Israel: Catholic Labor Day Quick Hits
The Church once stood alongside the Left on issues where the Left was right. But thanks to the Gloria Steinems of the world, the modern Left largely abandoned its focus on Labor for abortion and sexual ideology.
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