Why are Christians being attacked? Because they are the lambs...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
When faced with the new horrors confronting Christians in the world today one comes back time and again to ask “Why”? First of all we consider the enemy. Within the world there is an irrational rage that surges out into violence. One cannot enter into any kind of discussion with such violent and irrational rage. When faced with it I am reminded of the sub human beasts in the film 'I Am Legend...

A church is a church and not a club because people gather to meet God...
David Mills
It's a story priests and pastors will recognize. "After 20 years of mixed feelings and more than eight months of discussion and debate with my husband," wrote the novelist Judy Mollen Walters,"we had walked away from the place where our babies had been named, welcomed, and bat mitzvahed, the place where we had celebrated countless holidays...

Was St. Gregory of Narek, the new Doctor of the Church, a Catholic? | Catholic World Report - Global Church news and views...
R. Jared Staudt
On February 21, Pope Francis announced his decision to make St. Gregory of Narek (950-1003) a Doctor of the Church. Once again, Pope Francis has caught us off guard and now many people are scrambling to figure out who St. Gregory was and what the implications of the new honor bestowed upon him are. One key question that is arising is: was St...

“Liturgy Snob” Answers Her Critics...
Rachel Lu
Last week I wrote a piece here on Crisis about good liturgy and its effect on the minds of children. It provoked a number of strong reactions, with some positive and others very critical. This is unsurprising. All liturgy-lovers have heard these critiques before, because they arise as a matter of course whenever liturgical practice is discussed...

Turkish border closed as Christian hostages in Syria spike to 250...

Behold, a rare recording of C.S. Lewis speaking...
Brantly Millegan
You’ve read his books, but have you ever seen or heard C.S. Lewis? He died only 52 years ago, well into the era of audio and video recordings, and yet there no known videos of Lewis, and a few audio recordings of him. According to the descriptions for the videos, these recordings are from a talk he gave on BBC radio that would eventually be published as part of his masterpiece book Mere Christianity...

Rape accusations against Bikram Yoga founder prompts question: Is yoga really just a harmless exercise?

12 steps to help you move from pride to humility...
Msgr. Charles Pope
In yesterday’s post, we considered the twelve steps of pride set forth by St. Bernard of Clairvaux. In escalating ways, the twelve steps draw us to an increasingly mountainous and enslaving pride. St. Bernard also enumerates the twelve steps to deeper humility and it is these that we consider in today’s post. As with yesterday’s post...

5 questions from Catholics about evolution...
Stacy Trasancos
In elementary school, children learn about dinosaurs and fossils, how fossils form, how paleontologists reconstruct skeletons of animals from the past using those fossils. There seems no difficulty whatsoever accepting that all kinds of plants and animals lived on the Earth before people lived. Meanwhile, the Catholic children learn about Creation...

By their actions, ISIS has sealed their doom by engaging supernatural forces beyond comprehension...

Fr. Timothy Scott removed as Basilian spokesman after hurling obscenity toward Cardinal Burke...

Here are some good reasons for sitting up close at Mass...

How to enjoy the cold: Advice from an Arctic scuba diver...

Why you should prepare for martyrdom...

Vatican spokesman: "The pope did not intended to offend the Mexican population"...

Avila Institute to offer online course on angels and demons...

Patriarch urges prayer after ISIS kidnaps at least 90 Christians in Syria...

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