Hey, so breaking news: Those of us who claim to be Christian, we’re actually expected to live what we say we believe! Via the Gospel today: “Strive to enter through the narrow gate,” Jesus tells us, “”Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I tell you, will attempt to enter but will not be strong enough.” He explains: After the master of the house has arisen and locked the door, then will you stand outside knocking and saying,... Read more
From an AP photo collection from Sandy hurricane damage in Breezy Point, New York: Read more
Because I did actually manage to get a cab a half hour before the storm hit landfall. It was challenging. Walter Russell Mead writes: Manhattan is one of those places where nature seems mostly held at bay. Except for the parks, oases of carefully preserved nature deliberately shaped by the hand of man, every inch of the city’s surface has been covered by something manmade. The valleys have been exalted, the mountains laid low and the rough places plain. Those... Read more
“You were meant for relationship first and foremost, of course, for a relationship with God, and then with your brothers and sisters in Christ,” Teresa Tomeo writes. By denying yourself God’s gift of sisterhood, you could be doing damage to yourself. You can’t redo the past. But you can forgive and move past the pain in order to open yourself up to the joys of faith-filled friendship God has in store for you. “Unfortunately, I spent far too much time... Read more
My syndicated column this week is on fear of Hell, love of God, the New Evangelization, and even the presidential election. Consider reading and letting me know what you think here. Maybe even passing it on? Read more
Peter Murphy, who heads the evangelization and catechesis office at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and has been in Rome for the better part of this month, sums up a goal of the just wrapped-up synod on the New Evangelization: It is so important that we help Catholics experience Christ … to really have a personal relationship that depends their faith. So that that desire, that enthusiasm, that confidence that comes from that encounter can help propel them to... Read more
Discussing Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput’s interview with the Catholic News Service this past week in Rome, during which he said, among other things, that abortion is a “very serious issue that requires absolute adherence on the part of Catholics,” George Weigel adds: “No single political party fully embodies the social doctrine of the Catholic Church.” He went on to say that “Catholics who are paying attention will note that one of our two great political parties holds the teaching... Read more
Also on The World Over this week, George Weigel additionally made the point that: “There is no such division,” as the one we’ve been seeing in polls and in vice-presidential debates, on account of the vice president, between so-called pro-life and pro-social-justice Catholics. “The teaching of JPII and Benedict XVI has made unmistakably clear that the life issues are priority social-justice issues,” Weigel pointed out. “So you can’t take a pass on those issues in the name of being a... Read more
George Weigel also made the point on EWTN the other night that the Immaculate Conception and abortion are not the same thing. That was essentially what Joe Biden claimed when he said the sanctity of human life is a de fide doctrine of the Church, one that he could never dream of imposing on non-Catholics. “This is deeply incoherent,” Weigel told The World Over host Raymond Arroyo. “And maybe deeply dishonest at a number of levels,” he added. “Vice President... Read more
George Weigel talked to Raymond Arroyo on EWTN Thursday night about Catholics and the November election. The Department of Health and Human Services abortion-drug, sterilization, contraceptive mandate, a poison fruit of Obamacare, he said, represents a “grave threat to the institutional integrity of the Catholic Church and to conscientious Catholic employers.” “The bishops,” he acknowledged, “have made clear throughout the year, applying the teaching of several popes and the Second Vatican Council, that the inalienable right to life at all... Read more
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