The Difference
James
I found this great commentary on liturgy by Father Dwight Longenecker over at New Liturgical Movement. It's just a short excerpt from a longer piece. Check ...
They Said It…
“Ecology of man”
James
Benedict XVI, after his address to the German Parliament
We must listen to the language of nature and we must answer accordingly. Yet I would like to underlin...
Music and the Divine Liturgy
James
Detail from El Greco's The Annunciation
Here is an excerpt from an outstanding article appearing in The Catholic Sun written by Bishop Thomas Olmsted on the...
Abandoning Forgiveness
James
"I believe the spiritual crisis of our time has its basis in the obscuration of the grace of forgiveness. ... For this reason, where forgiveness is not reco...
The Real “Sensus Fidelium”
James
You might come across an article or a news report about the need for the Catholic Church to get with the times, to change her teachings, citing the "sensus ...
Of Bishops and Bees
James
Bernini's Baldacchino Bees
Pope Benedict XVI, in his book Church Fathers: From Clement of Rome to Augustine, touches on the life and teaching of Saint Maxim...
On Conversion
James
Saint Cyprian
I used to regard it as extremely difficult and demanding to do what God's mercy was suggesting to me. I myself was held in bonds by the innumera...
“Apart from Jesus Christ…”
James
"Not only do we only know God through Jesus Christ, but we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ; we only know life and death through Jesus Christ. Apart...
Annunciation
James
Titian's Annunciation
The great hour of Mary's encounter with God's messenger - in which her whole life is changed - comes to an end, and she remains there al...
A Teresian Reality Check
James
"For this body of ours has one fault: the more you indulge it, the more things it discovers to be essential to it." ~Saint Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfe...