Peter Kreeft writes what Kevin O’Brien calls “the best article of his life. ” I would be hard-pressed not to agree with that. Quite rousing and to the point.
Just read it.
Jeff Geerling provides an excellent overview of the latest CNMC, Catholic New Media Conference (CNMC) 2012 – Wrap-up.
Vocations to the priesthood are like the canary in the mine, they are the first thing to die in an unhealthy environment.
Read the whole thing from Fr. Ray Blake.
I recently watched Kevin O’Brien of Theater of the Word, Inc doing a performance as Dom Stanley Jaki the Hungarian Benedictine and Physicist who wrote on the subjects of the philosophy and history of science. I really enjoyed this performance that gives some idea to the late Fr. Jaki’s thoughts. This was recorded at The third session of the second day of the 2012 Portsmouth Institute conference, “Modern Science, Ancient Faith.”
From Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s latest blog post.
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Contrary to what you may have heard, Rome loves the Sisters! When you love someone, you show concern. And, recently, the Vatican expressed some concerns about theLeadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR), a group that represents a lot of Sisters.
That expression of concern contained high praise for the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and even higher esteem for all the nuns in America. The concord between the Holy See (which asked for and initiated the Leadership Conference of Women Religious half-a-century ago) is strong enough for both sides to ask tough questions.
But the concern is real: the Holy See loves the Sisters so much they want them as strong, faithful, and influential as possible, and legitimately worries about features threatening their very identity as “daughters of the Church,” to borrow Elizabeth Ann Seton’s favorite description of her sisters.
Some say that Rome is too soft, and should have suppressed the Leadership Conference of Women Religious , because it is heretical; one letter even called them “Unitarians”!
The other extreme claims that the stuffy, oppressive, sexist Vatican is scared of these independent, free-thinking women, and should leave them alone.
But such caricatures hardly help. All that helps is humility in both partners, and a profession of faith that, in the end, it’s not about one side or the other, not about the grievances of the Leadership Conference for Women Religious or the worries of the Vatican, but it’s all about Jesus and His Church.
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Exactly, failing to act to correct somebody is not love – the willing of the good for another. There are many prudential questions relating to when you step in, but not ever stepping in is not love.
National Review Online’s Kathryn Jean Lopez interviews Dawn Eden on her book “Healing Sexual Wounds with the Help of the Saints”
Every time a senseless tragedy of violence and death occurs, such as what recently took place at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater, many people ask the following — or a variation of the following — question:
“Why is it when there’s a terrible incident and people’s lives are taken, the survivors say, ‘Thank the Lord for watching over me.’ Well, what did he do to the ones who died?”
Matt C. Abbott asks Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life, Jimmy Akin of Catholic Answers, and Father John Trigilio this question and prints their replies. Jimmy Akin has a nice response, but Father Trigilio’s response is exceptionally good as he reflects on events in his own life – a must read.
Brandon Vogt interviews the great Peter Kreeft. Nice interview with some solid questions.
I’ve read a good amount of Peter Kreeft, but judging by the photo of books of Kreeft Brandon has he has read more of them then I have. I will have to fix that.
One of my friends, the most brilliant man I know, is a molecular biologist. He is also a Dominican priest, equally at home speaking to world-class scientists on the aging of cells as he is speaking to ordinary people on submitting to the direction of the Holy Spirit in all that they do, including such simple things as deciding what path to take to go home.
One day, we were discussing the fruitful relationship between faith and reason. He said that he held the Catholic faith because of, literally, “everything,” or as I like to call it, The Everything. It is not only its explanatory power that appeals, but its power to bring us into ever-deeper relationship with the infinite and inexplicable: beauty, goodness, personal being, love, God Himself.
What might we expect of such a faith? Chesterton said it was like a key that fit the wondrously specific indentations of the lock of reality. Of such a key we might say two apparently contradictory things.
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The Key that Fits the Lock Anthony Esolen