Religion
“A caress of Jesus”
Today is Holy Thursday.
The profound richness of the Last Supper comes alive in this, the beginning of the Easter Triduum.
Tonight at Mass, we will wash each other’s feet as a prelude to the Eucharistic sacrifice…
Read MoreThe Indiana smokescreen
The game has changed.
Why is the Left so infuriated by Indiana’s passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act? After all, a liberal Democrat, President Bill Clinton, signed a very similar bill into law at the federal level back in 1993.
After all, left-wing Democrat, Barack Obama, supported a similar law in Illinois when he was a State Senator.
And after all, 20 states already have similar laws on the books, and a dozen more states have similar legislation pending.
So why the outrage now?
Read MoreThe Indiana Catholic Bishops respond
“We believe that it is crucial that religious freedom be protected. As Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel: “No one can demand that religion should be relegated to the inner sanctum of personal life, without influence on societal and national life, without concern for the soundness of civil institutions” (n. 183).”
Read MoreKilling Jesus
“It play with the idea that Jesus’ teachings are more important than the doing of miracles, that the idea behind what he’s saying is the point and it doesn’t need to have out-of-body, magical elements happening.”
Read MoreThe sin Hollywood can’t forgive
Woody Allen had designs on 18 year old actress, Mariel Hemmingway.
So claims Ms. Hemmingway in her new book, “Out Came the Sun.” This is certainly not the only (alleged) impropriety leveled against the famous director and actor. And yet Hollywood doesn’t seem to hold it against Mr. Allen…
Read MoreHow to avoid loving God
“A message in blood”
Tyrants never learn.
Like their Roman predecessors, the Islamic tyrants killing Christians will lose. As Fr. Robert Barron points out in the video commentary above, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.
Read MoreWhy you should have hope
The case for Purgatory
“God is like a refiner’s fire, (Malachi 3:2) burning up all the impurities and leaving the pure gold behind. When gold (or pretty much any other metal) comes out of the ground, it comes as ore, fused with other minerals. In other words, it’s all mixed up with useless junk. It’s imprisoned in worthlessness.
What the refiner has to do is set the gold free. And fire is what does it. It takes away the things that keep gold from being golden. It sets the gold free to sparkle and shine.”
Read More“I can see!”
When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out,
he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
He answered and said,
“Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
Jesus said to him,
“You have seen him, and
the one speaking with you is he.”