Armoring Your Children from the World: St. Theophan’s “A Path to Salvation”
Without armor, during their years in school, your children will be bullied into accepting views contrary to Christian belief.
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Author: Rev. Kevin Bezner
An Argument In Favor of More Married Priests in the Catholic Church
The married priesthood serves, when it is allowed to flower, as a sign of the importance of marriage to the Church and to society.
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Pew Center Reports Orthodox Christianity Grows But Is Less Observant
A good trend for Orthodox Christianity in Russia is that those raised as atheists under Soviet communism are converting to the faith.
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Illness as Blessing and Opportunity: Jean-Claude Larchet’s “The Theology of Illness”
Health actually can be bad for us when we misuse our healthy bodies. While the Fathers teach that illness is not a source of evil, they point out that some vices are the source of our illnesses.
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Father Thomas Weinandy to Pope Francis: “A chronic confusion seems to mark your pontificate.”
Fr. Weinandy also laments behaviors of the pope that he says seem to demean Church doctrine…..
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Divine Destiny: Jean-Claude Larchet on the Church Fathers and the Human Body
While our culture is obsessed with the body, it cannot be said to love the body.
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St. John Chrysostom Counsels St. Olympia About Her Despondency
Despondency, St. John Chrysostom tells her, “is a continual executioner that not only tears in pieces one’s torso but also mutilates the strength of one’s soul. It is a continuous night, darkness with no light.”
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Fr. Benedict J. Groeschel’s Memoir: “What It Means to Know What Your True Duty Is, and To Do It”
In an age in which true fathers are scarce, and immature and confused men with no understanding of...
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Seen Any Albigensians Lately? Old Ideas, New Forms
The Albigensians believed that the best form of death was suicide and their sacrament, which could be given only once, seems to have ensured that the person given the sacrament would die
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Pagan Ritual and Polish Nationalism: Adam Mickiewicz’s Play “Forefathers’ Eve”
Everywhere I traveled in Poland, I encountered a reverence for God and Christ, a faithfulness to the teachings of the Catholic Church, that superseded any excessively nationalistic spirit and love of country.
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