Did Pope Francis really say that atheists can get to Heaven by good works?
Color me annoyed. The press has been going nuts about remarks concerning atheists that Pope Francis made at one of his daily homilies. As usual, the press is hyping the remarks as if they are earthshaking, unprecedented, and in contrast to mean ol' Pope Emeritus Benedict. I know this will come as a shock, but they're getting the story wrong.
Does God have just one right choice for you to make each time? Here are some clues to the answer...
When we pray for wisdom to discern God’s will when it comes to choosing a mate, a career, a job change, a move, a home, a school, a friend, a vacation, how to spend money, or any other choice, big or little, whenever there are two or more different paths opening up before us and we have to choose...
Why the New Evangelization is necessary, as humorously seen in a cartoon...
A crisis and the inability to do business as usual drives a little man into the world. And thus finally the Church too, is now, like a sleeping giant coming alive and going back into the world. We cannot do business as usual and various crises in and out of the Church has driven us forth.
10 things you need to know today: May 25, 2013...
Here's the upshot of the Boy Scouts decision: The Mormons won the day...
If anything, this vote represents another fascinating step in the ongoing journey of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints into the safe mushy middle of American religion, that great shopping mall of the soul. The BSA leaders decided to go with the Mormons, United Methodists and suburban American Catholics. The clear losers?
Before I entered the Church, I put the "big" in anti-Catholic bigotry...
I shudder to think of it now. There I was at a CS Lewis conference and the esteemed teacher Peter Kreeft had been talking about ten things to learn from JRR Tolkien about evil. A brilliant talk. And, at the break, I had a chance to corner Kreeft to ask him a few questions. In the course of that short conversation...
Don Pino, the priest who stood up to the Sicilian Mafia (and will soon be beatified for it)
F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote a short story about Jay Gatsby's Catholic boyhood...
The best acting in the entire movie is hands down Elizabeth Debicki as Jordan Baker. She captured the spirit of Fitzgerald's character: a women with a "pleasing contemptuous expression" with a "wan, charming, discontented face" who threw "her body backward at the shoulders like a young cadet."
"Who are we before God? What are our challenges?" Francis meets the Italian bishops...
At the close of the Italian bishops' plenary this week in Rome, the home-bench – led by its primate, the Pope – gathered in St Peter's tonight to make a communal Profession of Faith as part of the ongoing Year of Faith. The event marked Francis' first full encounter with the powerful Italian conference, known as the CEI.
9 foods you're totally eating wrong...
A simple guide to Christianity in the Arab world...
French bishop punishes priest "at Rome's request" for being an active Freemason...
Marvel, friends, at the gift that awaits you, if you die in God’s friendship...
The First Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday, a day some well-catechized Catholics dread for what they may hear from the pulpit. You might, for example, hear that the Trinity is like three burning candles twisted together to have one flame, or like a three-stranded rope. But then they would all have the same role. Perhaps Its like the Sun...
Pope Francis speaks on the immigration issue: "It is about, I emphasize, human beings"...
Looking for a Catholic study group this summer? Here it is. Pull up a lawn chair...
There are four challenges awaiting Pope Francis at Rio's World Youth Day...
In exactly two months, Pope Francis will make his first overseas trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for World Youth Day. It shapes up as the biggest Catholic blowout of the early 21st century, a massive celebration of history’s first Latin American pope folded into what’s already the Catholic version of Lollapalooza. At one level...
The family fell first then faith followed...
The clearest example of the thesis on how family nurtures faith is in vocations. In the olden days larger intact families produced priests. That’s one reason the seminaries bulged back in the baby boom, also why there was something of a religious revival after the Second World War. But today’s two-child, one-child, no-child, broken-up...
How’s that “culture of encounter” workin’ for ya?
If you define a culture of encounter as a search for common ground, then the Church, by the lights of its own leadership, has been participating in one for decades. (George Weigel gives a good overview of the inner-city renewal projects co-signed by the Bishops’ Conference under Cardinal Bernardin’s leadership.) What it got in return was nuns on the bus...
I'm going to share a little life improvement secret I've discovered...
Even at this late date, I’m still looking for it: that one, simple step I can take that will make my life easier, make my love stronger, make my brain faster, and make my pants looser. Deep down, I know there is no such thing; but hope springs eternal in the heart of a lazy person.
Heroine says Catholic faith inspired her to confront Muslims who murdered soldier in London...
Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, the mother of two and former Scout leader who calmly confronted the Woolwich killers in hope of preventing further bloodshed, credits her heroic actions to her Catholic faith. Her Catholic values also come through in the video interview above, when she is asked why she wasn’t scared to confront the murderers.
Yes, Pope Francis said that all are ‘redeemed’. But is that news to anyone?
"The Secret of Notre Dame": Cardinal Dolan's 2013 commencement address...
Don’t make fun of renowned author Dan Brown, author of renowned book 'The Da Vinci Code'
The media coverage of Pope Francis’ "exorcism" isn't journalism. It's just embarrassing...
It’s kind of charming that all popes have to deal with bad media coverage and global press frenzies. This week we’ve seen some awful media coverage of Pope Francis, including coverage of his blessing of a man after Mass on Sunday. Part of the blame must go to the Italian press, which really went crazy with the story in a way that might not be prudent.
Apologetics is not a telephone game...
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HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
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May 18: Pentecost Vigil with ecclesial movements (YouTube)May 19: Mass in St. Peter's Square (YouTube)
May 22: Wednesday General Audience (YouTube)
May 23: Profession of Faith with the Italian bishops (6:00pm)
May 26: Mass at parish of Sts. Elizabeth and Zechariah (9:30am)
May 30: Mass in Piazza St. John Lateran, Corpus Christi procession to St. Mary Major (7:00pm)
May 31: Rosary in St. Peter's Square (8:00pm)
June 2: Simultaneous worldwide Holy Hour (6:00pm)
June 16: Mass for Evangelium Vitae celebration (10:30am)
June 29: Mass and pallium imposition (9:30am)
July 7: Mass with seminarians and novices at St. Peter's (9:30am)
July 22-29: World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
November 24: Ceremonies to conclude the Year of Faith
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