Practical advice on how to know and feel the forgiveness you have received in confession...
“I know I have been forgiven because I’ve been to confession, but I don’t feel forgiven! How can I find peace and know that I’m forgiven? ” This is one of the most frequent questions I get as a priest. A similar question comes up with the problem of forgiving others, “Father,” the person asks, “my business partner screwed me real bad.
Mike Huckabee: "Thanks to President Obama, we are all Catholics now"...
Religious, Not Spiritual...
Recently, there was a curious kerfuffle on the Internet when somebody released a “new” video announcing that he loves Jesus but hates “religion.” It is a sentiment older than my great-grandfather’s beard, and yet it was received as a sudden and brilliant meteor of insight blazing across the skies of American religious consciousness and dazzling a moribund Christianity t...
A response to Obama from Mary Ann Glendon, Robert George, John Garvey, and other luminaries...
Here are 4 books you should read during Lent...
What if arguments for abortion were applied to infants?
Explosive sex abuse lawsuit against Vatican dropped...
A Wisconsin sex abuse lawsuit against the Vatican, which helped trigger a global firestorm in early 2010, was withdrawn late Friday. It marks the formal end of a case that seemed to cast doubt on Pope Benedict XVI’s role in the abuse crisis, and shifted focus from local bishops to an alleged cover-up in Rome.
The president and the prophet: Obama's unusual encounter with Eric Metaxas...
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If you listen closely, Sunday's Gospel teaches you how to lose your own leprosy in four easy steps...
In today’s Gospel we see the healing of a leper (this means you and me). Leprosy in Scripture is more than just a physical illness, it is also a euphemism for sin. Leprosy itself is not sin, but it resembles sin and what sin does to us spiritually. For sin, like leprosy, disfigures us; it deteriorates us...
The Washington post said Obama "shifted" on birth control. In reality, he shifted on nothing. This maneuver was a fraud and an absurdity...
Saturday morning’s Washington Post headline and first sub-headline, page one and above-the-fold, nicely captured the confusions that prevailed as of 6 p.m. Friday, in the matter of tweaks to the “contraceptive mandate” issued by the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services: “Obama shifts on birth control / Catholic leaders open to plan.
10 pictures in defense of the Catholic Church...
Professional soccer club Bayern Munich to offer Pope Benedict XVI honorary membership...
Do miracles really help? The answer comes in the Sunday readings for February 12...
In this weekend’s readings, a healed leper disobeys Jesus and spreads the news of his miraculous cure everywhere, impeding the Lord’s ministry. Why did Jesus tell him to be quiet about the healing? What is the role of miracles in the Jesus’ ministry, and in the life of the Church today?
The president of the United States has decided to go Henry VIII on the Catholic Church...
“We were getting killed”: the inside story of Obama’s “accommodation”
How the Catholic Church became cool overnight...
As far as I’m concerned — though I’m certainly open to scientific humanism making a big, total-fulfillment-of-the-human-person comeback — Catholicism is the addict’s fix, the starving child’s Chipotle burrito, and the UVA student’s pastel shorts and button-downs, etcetera, etcetera, ad infinitum et in saecula saeculorum, amen.
"We Reserve Judgment": Bishops "Studying" Feds' Conscience Shift...
In a piece this morning that tick-tocked the church's months of back-channel engagement with the White House on the thorny issue, the Beltway news outlet Politico said that President Obama "may have discovered his most effective political opponent of 2012" in the cardinal-to-be, adding that Dolan had shown himself adept at "messaging as masterfully as any Washington consultant."
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Three men who loved lepers: Jesus of Nazareth, Francis of Assisi, and Damien of Molokai...
Though not the first miracle of his public ministry, Jesus’ healing of the leper is certainly the first miracle he worked after relating the Sermon on the Mount (as is clear from St. Matthew [8:1]). Thus, it is striking to note that, immediately after preaching the great sermon which collects all of his message into one...
The sheer grandeur of the Divine Office is overwhelming...
In-depth analysis : The bishops' tougher response to the Obama 'compromise' mandate...
After an initial muted reaction to President Obama’s proposed “accommodation,” the leaders of the US bishops’ conference have released a second, stronger statement, declaring that the mandate for contraceptive coverage in health-care programs remains “unacceptable and must be corrected.” On Friday evening...
Don't be deceived. Obama's evil policy is now even more evil...
Attention, Catholics, Protestants, and everyone who cares about the causes of life, religious freedom, and freedom of conscience! Do not be suckered by the “accommodation” announced today by President Obama and spokeswoman Kathleen Sebelius! Under the guise of making room for religious conscience...
Secularism's Toll on Catholic Americans...
Some years ago, Holy Cross Father James Burtchaell published a seminal book entitled The Dying of the Light. The central thesis of this study was that hundreds of universities that began under religious auspices and for religious purposes — the University of Chicago, Princeton, Harvard, Yale...
Do you believe us now, America?
Marie Collins goes first...
For the first time at an official assembly of the Catholic Church, a victim of the scandal has spoken, Marie Collins of Ireland, sexually abused by a priest when she was thirteen years old. An even more significant "first" in that it is connected to what has become for the Church the absolute priority in the fight against this scandal: closeness to the victims.
100 questions Jesus asked and you ought to answer...
Eavesdropping on the Super Bowl sidelines...
Iran’s President Ahmadinejad invites Pope Benedict to visit Tehran...
