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The Lives of Christian Moms
7+ hour, 16+ min ago (834+ words) When I taught CCD, I used to tell my kids, "If everybody else is doing it, it's probably wrong." The Christian life is difficult. The truth is difficult." So said Kelley (as we may call her) when I interviewed her,…...
Human love prefigures Divine love
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (491+ words) Purely human love is the embryo of the Love of the Divine. One finds some suggestions of this in Plato, who argues that the purpose of love is to make The post Human love prefigures Divine love appeared first on…...
Christ at the center: How tradition anchors the development of doctrine
3+ week, 1+ day ago (196+ words) In debates about Church tradition, there's a false dialectic between a runaway progressivism that treats tradition like a Rorschach inkblot onto which one can project any interpretation one desires, and The post Christ at the center: How tradition anchors the…...
The German bishops’ conference, over the cliff
4+ week, 7+ hour ago (251+ words) On October 30, the German bishops" conference secretariat announced on the conference website the publication of a text by the bishops" Commission on Schools and Education, Created, Redeemed, and Loved: The post The German bishops" conference, over the cliff appeared first…...
Why is Christianity so hard to find in the Trump administration?
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (41+ words) Ross Douthat, New York Times Wednesday, December 10, 2025 Papal Posse: No women deacons; Leo celebrates the Nicene Creed, & more Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Zaragoza, Spain Beethoven, Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op 85 " Hallelujah...
Don't blame Vatican II
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (40+ words) Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald Tuesday, December 9, 2025 Papal Posse: No women deacons; Leo celebrates the Nicene Creed, & more Cathedral-Basilica of Our Lady of the Pillar, Zaragoza, Spain Beethoven, Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op 85 " Hallelujah...
In Britain: Paganism is top choice for Christians who convert to a 'new faith"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (29+ words) Kaya Burgess, The Times Thursday, December 4, 2025 Happy New Year! Advent with Bishop Barron Basilica of St. Agnese, Piazza Navona, Rome Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming...
American religious affiliations – if the U.S. had just 100 people
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (34+ words) Becka A. Alper and Aleksandra Sandstrom, Pew Research Center Tuesday, December 2, 2025 Happy New Year! Advent with Bishop Barron Basilica of St. Agnese, Piazza Navona, Rome Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming...
On the West-East schism
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (79+ words) Wednesday, November 26, 2025 That is the right attitude towards the Orthodox always. They have a horror of being latinized, of betraying the old Faith. One must always insist that there is no idea of latinizing them, that the old Faith is…...
In the Unity of Faith
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (184+ words) [The Holy Father's Apostolic letter, In unitate fidei, published on the Solemnity of Christ the King, begins: "In the unity of faith, proclaimed since the beginning of the Church, Christians The post In the Unity of Faith appeared first on…...