The heaven-earth dilemma and the scandal of God-become-dirt

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna: Father of the Church and apostle to Protestants By Dawn Beutner on Feb 23, 2025 03:00 am Saint John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was not the first Protestant who decided to become a Catholic after reading the Fathers of the Church. And he’s not alone. The Coming Home Network, a group established to [...] Read in browser » Flee From Heresy is flawed, sloppy, and often erroneous By Larry Chapp on Feb 22, 2025 10:35 pm When reading Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s Flee From Heresy: A Catholic Guide to Ancient and Modern Errors, I was reminded of a shameful act from my youth. My then six-year-old younger sister complained to me one [...] Read in browser » Mercy, justice, and offering the other cheek By Carl E. Olson on Feb 22, 2025 04:00 pm Readings: • 1 Sam 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23 • Psa 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13 • 1 Cor 15:45-49 • Lk 6:27-38 The Thomistic philosopher Josef Pieper, in Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power, wrote, [...] Read in browser » Pope Francis in critical condition at Rome hospital, receives blood transfusion By Catholic News Agency on Feb 22, 2025 01:11 pm Pope Francis attends the general audience at the Vatican on Feb. 12, 2025. / Credit: Daniel Ibáñez / EWTN News CNA Newsroom, Feb 22, 2025 / 14:11 pm (CNA). Pope Francis remains in critical condition and “is not out of danger,” the Holy See Pres... [...] Read in browser » The power of Christ and the Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter By Fr. Charles Fox on Feb 21, 2025 08:00 pm On April 19, 2005, I was in the fifth of my six years of seminary formation,  serving as an intern at a rural parish in the northeastern part of the Archdiocese of Detroit. That morning, [...] Read in browser » Worldwide mind and shattered soul: Ida Görres’s Newman By David Paul Deavel on Feb 21, 2025 02:51 pm The Catholic world can thank Jennifer S. Bryson for her labor of love in bringing into English translation a large selection of the works of Ida Friederike Görres (1901-71). A giant of German Catholic writing [...] Read in browser » Christ’s wounds, our wounds, and the possibility of flourishing By Jennifer S. Bryson on Feb 27, 2025 09:21 pm In Healing Wounds: The 2025 Lent Book, Bishop Erik Varden, OCist, of Norway, guides readers more deeply into Christ’s wounds while also helping us to see our own more clearly and not fear bringing them to [...] Read in browser » The heaven-earth dilemma and the scandal of God-become-dirt By Matthew Becklo on Feb 27, 2025 02:57 pm In his talk on the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, which has now amassed almost three million views on YouTube, Bishop Robert Barron calls Christ’s “bread of life” teaching in John 6 a “standing [...] Read in browser » An Open Letter to JD Vance about IVF By Sister Renée Mirkes on Feb 27, 2025 02:02 pm Dear Vice-President Vance: Your statement—“I realize that there is a part of me—the best part of me—that takes its cue from Catholicism”—is music to my ears. In fact, it cued me to introduce you to [...] Read in browser » Why We Need Lent: Advice from St. Benedict By Dr. R. Jared Staudt on Feb 27, 2025 10:00 am Lent shouldn’t be necessary. That’s what St. Benedict of Nursia, the great father of monks, thought, at least. Jesus commanded us to deny ourselves and take up our cross daily. In response, Benedict thought the [...] Read in browser » In praise of the walls that we need By Joseph Pearce on Feb 27, 2025 04:00 am “We are builders of bridges, not of walls,” said Bishop Giovanni Angelo Becciu, a senior member of the Roman Curia, in January 2017. His words were a reaction to President Trump’s ordering restrictions on immigration [...] Read in browser » Bringing faith, hope, and love to nursing homes through the Rosary By Karen Mahoney on Feb 26, 2025 09:10 pm For the past two years, Emma Trujillo, a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, has prayed a Rosary with residents at Holton Manor Nursing Home, also in Elkhorn. She and three other [...] Read in browser » Pope Francis’ early-stage kidney insufficiency ‘subsided’ on Wednesday, Vatican says By Catholic News Agency on Feb 26, 2025 05:20 am People pray at the statue of John Paul II outside the Gemelli Hospital, where Pope Francis is hospitalized with pneumonia, in Rome on Feb. 26, 2025. / Credit: FILIPPO MONTEFORTE/AFP via Getty Images Vatican City, Feb 26, 2025 / 15:05 pm (CNA). ... [...] Read in browser » Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, February 26, 2025 By CWR Staff on Feb 26, 2025 03:00 am Forgiveness and Redemption – “Evil usually comes to us, disguised as an angel of light, promising us happiness and fulfillment if we simply surrender to our temptations … ” The Church’s “Ultimate Trial” (What We [...] Read in browser » AI and Us: Computers, Lemonade, and God By Mark Brumley on Feb 25, 2025 09:49 pm Ilyas Khan is the founder of Quantinuum, the world’s largest and leading quantum computing company. Quantinuum is an Anglo-USA quantum computing company with joint headquarters in Colorado and Cambridge(Great Britain). Ilyas was the Chairman of [...] Read in browser » Raising children in an age of anxiety and a culture of individualism By Sean Salai on Feb 25, 2025 02:36 pm Timothy P. Carney is the father of six children, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a columnist at the Washington Examiner. A Catholic raised in New York City, he lives with his [...] Read in browser » ‘I only kneel before God’: The last words of priest killed in Myanmar By Catholic News Agency on Feb 25, 2025 12:00 pm At left, funeral of Father Donald Martin Ye Naing Win (pictured at right), martyred in Myanmar on Feb. 14, 2025. / Credit: Archdiocese of Mandalay ACI Prensa Staff, Feb 25, 2025 / 07:00 am (CNA). Two women who witnessed the murder of Father Don... [...] Read in browser » Answering the most difficult questions for Catholics today By CWR Staff on Feb 24, 2025 11:09 pm Statistics show that the top reason for young people are leaving the Church is that their questions about the faith do not get answered. They have questions about God, the afterlife, seemingly unanswered prayers, other [...] Read in browser » Talking Nonsense: Dostoevsky and the Machine Age By Ben Reinhard on Feb 24, 2025 02:49 pm Crime and Punishment is, by all accounts, one of the great triumphs of human artistic genius: penetrating, achingly beautiful, and borderline prophetic. It is also, for the first-time reader, an arduous experience. Dostoevsky’s sprawling genius overflows [...] Read in browser » Aquinas 101 brings the thought of St. Thomas to a wide audience By Kathy Schiffer on Feb 23, 2025 08:00 pm For most Christians, the name Thomas Aquinas will forever be associated with his signature work, the Summa Theologiae. In the Summa, Aquinas employed philosophical reasoning to address and explain the major teachings of the Catholic Church. However, [...] Read in browser » Kinda Pregnant is poorly conceived and kinda horrible By Nick Olszyk on Feb 23, 2025 01:38 pm MPAA Rating: R Reel Rating: 1 out of 5 reels Hours after releasing the trailer for Kinda Pregnant, the internet was inundated with backlash against the film not seen since the days of Sonic the [...] Read in browser »