“Atheism is the opiate of the masses”
Fr. Robert Barron discusses the intellectual vacuity of the modern atheist movement in the video commentary above. Karl Marx famously said that religion is the “opiate of the masses.” Fr. Barron says he got it backwards, that atheism is the opiate of the masses, that it attempts, much like a drug, to mask our deepest longing. And what is that longing?
It is our longing for God, our desire for something beyond the abilities of this world to satisfy…
Read MoreMy top ten religious movies for Lent
We’re in the midst of the awe and majesty of the Easter Triduum. When you get home from church and look for good religious entertainment, consider one of these ten movies. These are my favorite religious movies for the Lent/Easter season.
Read More“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 MoreAmerica suffers from tolerance
“America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not… “
Read MoreApril Fool’s!
By Tom Quiner Great April Fool’s prank!
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 MoreHow a senior citizen can defend herself
The story below came by e-mail today.
I don’t know who wrote it, sorry, but it’s worth sharing:
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