"While many people and colleges profess to be Catholic, it has become more apparent that not all of them are truly Catholic. Such a crisis in faith is not unprecedented. The faithful, meanwhile, take comfort in the Church’s rich traditions and life from God, who is bodily present among us in the Eucharist. Like the monks of Cluny Abbey who saved the faith of Europe in the tenth century, let us first reform ourselves through strong Catholic education and spiritual nourishment. That is the first step towards the reform of the crisis, and another of many steps toward heaven."
The Progressive Left has become the new religion for the Godless, the nones, and those who have lost confidence in the Catholic Church. They zealously oppose the eternal truths concerning the sanctity, dignity, and identity of being human. Is it possible to defend our faith without stepping into the political breach?
"Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth—a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference: that it really happened. Evangelization in our post-Christian culture is in a dire state because so much of our church talk has become either bland therapeutic, moralistic Deism or it has become a dry abstract theological conversation. What is needed is to re-mythologize the mystery and re-enchant our presentation of the Gospel."
Martin said this indicates that what is happening is not caused by out-of-control forces. “God is deciding to permit these things to happen. He’s not worried. He has a plan for good.” Martin said he would urge people to heed the message by deepening their relationship with the Lord, putting their priorities in the right place and developing relationships with brothers and sisters in Christ. Some of the things in the prophecy are happening now and others may not happen tomorrow. “But if there isn’t a sufficient turning to God, he’s not going to leave us in our lukewarmness, infidelity and sin. He will find other avenues.” God often uses painful and difficult circumstances to get our attention, Martin said, recalling a quotation from C.S. Lewis: “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
“The Heart of Christ is overflowing with love both human and divine and rich with the treasure of all graces which our Redeemer acquired by His life, sufferings, and death, it is, therefore, the enduring source of that charity which His Spirit pours forth on all the members of His Mystical Body.”
"We need the Church now, as ever, to help remind us of who we are: We are created by God, and made for God. We are sons and daughters of the Father. We are the ones for whom God himself, though we were still sinners, suffered and died. And we are the ones for whom His Resurrection is an offer of the promise of eternal life. We Christians are the ones who must show the world – a world as undeserving as we are – that there is a still more excellent way. This task is likely to grow more difficult in the years to come. But not less important."
Father absence is painful regardless of hue of skin, ethnicity or socioeconomic circumstances. It is felt by over 20 million children in this country today.
American abolitionists “were driven by the understanding that the realities of American Slavery were irreconcilable to their Christian beliefs about the dignity of humanity and their American dreams about the centrality of liberty. They saw that the slave was as made in the image of God as anyone else and therefore as deserving of honor as themselves.”
Since time immemorial, marriage and family have served as the building blocks of all civilizations. It’s not an overstatement to suggest that as goes the family, so goes the world.
"Specifically, critical theory gets the human condition wrong and the human problem wrong. As a result, its solutions are simplistic and, at times, dangerous. They’re not compatible with Christianity, and we should reject them."
Sons of Gondor! Of Rohan! My brothers! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship. But it is not this day. An hour of wolves and shattered shields when the age of Men comes crashing down! But it is not this day! This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand! Men of the West!
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. Alexander Solzhenitsyn”
Our Catholic Church needs to confront the issues of father less homes, black-targeted abortions, and the denial of parental rights for attaining the best education for their children.
ROME, Italy — Venerable Carlo Acutis, an Italian teen whose beatification Pope Francis approved in February, is known for his gift for computer programming, but how he used those skills is what makes him an example of holiness, according to the postulator of his sainthood cause. Carlo is known to have called the Eucharist his “highway to heaven.”
"In the two addresses, two world-views are presented: in the one, the “good people” among us, empathy their only motive, must be in a constant state of mobilization, to compel everyone else to be the good persons they are; in the other, all of us are caught in a drama, as sin is within each of us, threatening to defeat us, for which we need God’s help. Mercy and forgiveness? They have a role only in the second. “We cannot wallow in the tragedy of our civilization, our weakness, and sin,” John Paul II said in conclusion, “We must stay always faithful to another cry: ‘Where sin abounded, grace abounded all the more,’ [Rom 5:20].”
“Who is going to save the church? Do not look to the priests. Do not look to the bishops. It’s up to you.” - Fulton Sheen. As we have seen many times in the past two thousand years, it is only the Roman Catholic Church which can face such derangement and right it. Sadly, those Catholic tools lie buried in cobwebs. This momentous task is now left to the good Catholic faithful, who will rediscover those divine tools and wield them. For, I fear, too many Catholic leaders have fallen beneath the spell of the radical chic.