Daily Quote from Saint Teresa of Avila - The Integrated Catholic Life™

Faculty Profile of Horst Buchholz - Jeffrey Tucker, The Chant Café

The Catholic Approach to Scripture - Doctor Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture/In Depth Analysis

Ten Commandments for a Good Lenten Confession - Father Philip Neri Powell O.P. Ph.D., Domine da mihi hanc aquam!

‘Sectarian’ Clash between Copts and Mob? - Terry Mattingly, Get Religion

A Martyr in Parliament: The Honorable Shahbaz Bhatti (1968–2011) - Fr. Raymond J. De Souza, First Things/On the Square

Father Frank Pavone Leads Covert Mission to Rescue Baby Joseph - Priests for Life

An Evening with Saint Joan - Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

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Finding the Good in Good Friday, The Liturgical Experience of the Cross - Monsignor Charles Pope, Archdiocese of Washington

The Real Difference Between Fasting and Abstinence - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

7 Reasons to Frequent Confession During Lent - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

New Irish Government Raises Concerns for Catholics - Michael Kelly, Catholic World Report

The Renewal of Vatican II: Distractions & Distortions - Douglas Bushman S.T.L., Ignatius Insight

A Rediscovered Mass for 40 Voices - Father John Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS?

“Who is Jesus Christ?”, There’s an app For That! - Eric Sammons, The Divine Life

Heretics and Preachers - Brad Miner, The Catholic Thing

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Maryland House of Delegates “killed” a bill Friday that sought to legalize same-sex “marriage” in the state.

The House of Delegates sent the bill back to the Judiciary Committee — a move described in The Washington Post as “an acknowledgment by supporters that it did not have sufficient votes to pass on the floor.” It was an unexpected conclusion to an intense political fight that pitted key Democratic lawmakers who are Catholic but whose votes were contrary to Church doctrine against the leaders of their Church. 

Local Catholic pastors applauded the outcome, but they remain troubled by the disconnect between the public stance of the Maryland Catholic Conference...READ MORE

Lenten Reading and the Liturgy of the Hours - Jake Tawney, Roma locuta est

Dale O’Leary Speaks of Instability of Same-Sex Attraction -  Brian Fraga, Rhode Island Catholic

“Italia Felix,” Here’s How the Church Is Celebrating Her - Sandro Magister, Chiesa

Pope: Immigrants Must Take Into Account the ... Law, Cultural ... Tradition - New Catholic, Rorate Cæli

Talks With SSPX to End in Spring: Bp. Williamson’s Letter - Tancred, The Eponymous Flower

Bishop Demetrio Fernandez Reaffirms Catholic Identity of Cordoba Cathedral - EWTN News

Unfair in Philadelphia?  A Closer Look at the Grand Jury Report - TheMediaReport.com

.....Philly review board never heard accusations against 14 of 21...READ MORE

As John Paul II insisted, “It is an illusion to think we can build a true culture of human life if we do not … accept and experience sexuality and love and the whole of life according to their true meaning and their close interconnection” (Evangelium Vitae, 97). For as our understanding of sexuality goes, so go marriage and the family. As marriage and the family go, so goes civilization.”

This is the great gift of John Paul II’s theology of the body: By revealing the glory of God’s plan for man and woman, it provides the antidote to the “culture of death” and the surest foundation for building a “culture of life.”

Theology of the Body Past

Page one of the TOB manuscript is dated Dec. 8,...READ MORE

Lent: The Meaning of the Number 40 in the Bible - Taylor Marshall, Canterbury Tales

Teaching the Divinity of Christ by the Socratic Method - Marcellino D’Ambrosio Ph.D., The Integrated Catholic Life™

Does Lent begin on Wednesday or Sunday? - Reginaldus, New Theological Movement

Feast of Pope Saint Gregory the Great and his Dialogues - Kate Edwards, Australia Incognita

Be Careful What You Ask For, SNAP - Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture/On the News

Julian Green, Liturgical Reform & Our Spiritual Combat - Father Christopher Smith, The Chant Café

Seek First God’s Kingdom - Nicholas Postgate Ph.D., The Latin Mass

Doctor Ed Peters on Being “Pastoral” v. Being Faithful - Father John...READ MORE

SET FREE TO LOVE
Lives Changed by the Theology of the Body
By Marcel LeJeune
Servant Books, 2010
90 pages, $11.95
To order: catalog.americancatholic.org
(800) 488-0488

I read Pope John Paul II’s Love and Responsibility years ago and had a hard time with it. As one of the contributors to this book says, the late Pope’s style was circuitous, spiraling around the topic over and over again, using the terms of phenomenology, the philosophical approach he was trained in (as was St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, better known as Edith Stein), a philosophical method based on lived experience.

But one thing I remember learning from his book was that the only right and proper response to a person is...READ MORE

Catholics & Black Churches Defeat Same-Sex Marriage in Maryland! - Thomas Peters, Catholic Vote/American Papist

Communion, Canon Law, and Pastoral Practice - Doctor Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law

Japanese Church ‘In Shock’ after Massive Earthquake and Tsunami - EWTN News

Devastation Hindering Japanese Church Efforts to Assess Needs - Catholic News Service

Same-Sex Marriage Bill Killed in Maryland Assembly - Paul Zummo, The American Catholic

Japanese Church Officials Struggle to React to Earthquake - Catholic Herald

“The Ethics of Abortion” - Benjamin Mann, California Catholic Daily

Waves - Mark Shea, National Catholic Register

Faith of Our Fathers - Matthew Spalding,...READ MORE