Purify Your Bride

Interesting story connected with the cause for canonization of Cardinal Newman. A man was healed of a painful spinal problem. He was studying to be a deacon and his back was so bad he would have been forced to drop out. He asked for Cardinal Newman’s intercession and was healed almost instantly. A panel of [...]

First Things has a good article on the demographics that are behind the real estate meltdown. The reality is the number of two parent families with children has declined over the past few decades. Few families need fewer homes. That produces a smaller real estate sector. It does make sense. Like the Mt 6:23 says: [...]

Pope Benedict made an interesting point in his Nov 19 General Audience:
So what does the Law from which we are liberated and which does not save mean? For St Paul, as for all his contemporaries, the word “Law” meant the Torah in its totality, that is, the five books of Moses. The Torah, in the [...]

Carl Olson has a post about the AIDS/condom controversy.
There are, it seems to me, two basic and radically opposed understandings of sexuality. One states that sex is amoral in nature, is meant for personal gratification, can be controlled and perfected through techniques and toys, and is essentially—even completely—mechanistic and physical in nature. This view [...]

Once we believed in a God of wrath and judgement. We don’t teach that anymore. Now we believe in a God of love and mercy.
This is the kind of talk we get on Divine Mercy Sunday. There is some truth to it. As a matter of emphasis the church’s teaching has changed quite a [...]

Over at Whispers in the Loggia there is a post that I found interesting. The papal preacher, a guy named Raniero Cantalamessa, talked about two kinds of revelation. The interior, private testimony and the exterior, public testimony of the Holy Spirit. Both of these are very good and true things. Often people put far more [...]

Lots of stuff happened while I was taking a break from blogging. The biggest story was the pope’s trip to Africa. There are such amazing things going on in Africa. The church is growing so fast there with many vocations. It is born out of great suffering but they have been greatly blessed. We need [...]