Daily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI
“Is it consistent to profess our beliefs in church on Sunday, and then during the week to promote business practices or medical procedures contrary to those beliefs? … Any tendency to treat religion...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI on Social Justice
“In this world of ours, in which, despite the profession of good intentions, the value of the person, of human dignity and human rights is seriously threatened by the widespread tendency to have...
View ArticleOur Children: Just Another Statistic?
Maybe it was Pope Benedict XVI’s declaration of the “Year of Faith” that got us thinking. Or perhaps it was a knee-jerk reaction to the frequent attacks upon our faith from an increasingly...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI
“Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world. The whole spiritual organism of the mystical body...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI
“If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI
“Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to him, are we not afraid that He might take something away from us? No! If we let...
View ArticleGoing Forward in this New Year by Looking Back
One of my favorite ways to learn about my faith and to grow in my relationship with God is to try and read as much as possible the writings of Pope Benedict XVI. For some reason the Pope’s words...
View ArticlePope Benedict XVI Renounces the Ministry of Bishop of Rome
As news spread around the world Monday morning that His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI had announced his intention to step down as Bishop of Rome and Successor of St. Peter, my conversations with friends,...
View ArticleOne Catholic Media Person’s Experience of Covering Breaking Papal History
I went to bed on Sunday, February 10, all keyed up for a busy week as a member of the Catholic media. After all, Ash Wednesday was mere days away, and for someone with plenty of segments to cover,...
View ArticleWhy Pope Benedict Matters to Me
In all the drama of Thursday’s farewell to Pope Benedict XVI, and amidst all the high level comment, intellectual analysis and historical accounting of his legacy, here are the very personal reasons...
View ArticleSome Thoughts on Marriage
It is impossible to ignore the ongoing and hotly contested debate in our country about the definition of marriage as being between one man and one woman. The partisans on both sides of the issue have...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
“Just as he did during his earthly existence, so today the risen Jesus walks along the streets of our life and sees us immersed in our activities, with all our desires and our needs. In the midst of...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI
“Having a clear faith, based on the Creed of the Church, is often labeled today as a fundamentalism. Whereas, relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and ‘swept along by every wind of teaching’,...
View ArticleThe New Evangelization: Not a Strategy or Program, but a Person – Part 1
“God is opening before the Church the horizons of a humanity more fully prepared for the sowing of the Gospel. I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church’s energies to a new...
View ArticleThe New Evangelization: Not a Strategy or Program, but a Person – Part 2
In the mystery of his death and resurrection, God has revealed in its fullness the Love that saves and calls us to conversion of life through the forgiveness of sins (cf. Acts 5:31). For Saint Paul,...
View ArticleLiving a Life of Joyful Witness: An Interview with Editor and Syndicated...
Over the last few years, I have had a few opportunities to interact with Kathryn Lopez as she has interviewed me about topics related to my books. But the opinion I have formed about Kathryn is more...
View ArticleLearning to Accept God’s Will
Not long ago a priest shared some guidance with my wife and me that has been the cause of a great deal of conversation and reflection in our home. In response to learning that we pray every day about...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI
“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.” (Pope Benedict XVI)...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI
“Are we not perhaps all afraid in some way? If we let Christ enter fully into our lives, if we open ourselves totally to him, are we not afraid that He might take something away from us? No! If we let...
View ArticleDaily Catholic Quote from Pope Benedict XVI
“Is it consistent to profess our beliefs in church on Sunday, and then during the week to promote business practices or medical procedures contrary to those beliefs? … Any tendency to treat religion...
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