“Following the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and paying close attention to the special needs of our times, I devoted the encyclical Redemptor Hominis to the truth about man, a truth that is revealed to us in its fullness and depth in Christ. A no less important need in these critical and...
This is part eight in “Postcards from the Camino” by Gareth Thomas, a series of reflections on the Camino de Santiago, the pilgrimage route leading to the shrine of the apostle Saint James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain. Chartres cathedral, sixty miles south from Paris, is...
On May 27, the CBC reported that the bodies of 215 First Nations children had been discovered buried under the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The school was run by the Catholic religious order the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate until 1969, at which point the Canadian government expropriated it...
Tonight on The Critical Catholic, Mike Lewis and D.W. Lafferty will talk about what happens when conspiracy theories about vaccines meet real life, as well as the rise of Catholic folk hero Father James Altman.
A reflection on the readings for Sunday, May 30, 2021 — The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. Last Saturday, my infant son received the Sacrament of Baptism. When the celebrant poured holy water over my son’s head and used sacred Chrism oil to anoint his forehead, I became mindful of another Baptism:...
“In reality, while strongly condemning “socialism”, the Church, since Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum , has always distanced itself from capitalist ideology, holding it responsible for grave social injustices (cf. Rerum novarum , 2). In Quadragesimo Anno Pius XI, for his part, he used clear and strong words to stigmatize the international imperialism of money ( Quadragesimo anno , 109).” (scroll down...
The sixth and final chapter of Dei Verbum is about how the Bible is actually used and its fundamental importance in the Church. The chapter begins by saying that listening to the Bible at Mass stands on par with receiving the Eucharist; the two parts of the liturgy stand together as a single...
Rachel Amiri, Mike Lewis, and Adam Rasmussen are joined by guest contributor Malcolm Schluenderfritz to discuss his recent post on the alleged failure of Vatican II and the barriers to the Council’s reception and full implementation. Malcolm Schluenderfritz hosts Happy Are You Poor, a blog and podcast dedicated to discussing radical Christian community as...
The debate that began with Giorgio Gawronski’s February 22 article in L’Osservatore Romano, “Empty churches and integral humanism,” is one of the few interesting discussions currently stirring in Catholic thought. Writing on an issue that has since been taken up by several others,[1] his article addresses the problem mentioned in the title: Why...
Check out the fourth episode of The Critical Catholic on Where Peter Is Media, with Mike Lewis and D.W. Lafferty. Mike was away this week. We stream live every Sunday on YouTube at 8 p.m. EST. This week’s guest: Brett Salkeld, Archdiocesan Theologian for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Regina Overview: Brett Salkeld...
During his Wednesday Audience this week, as a part of his ongoing catechesis on prayer, Pope Francis confronted one of the most difficult questions that face Christians: “if God is Father, why does He not listen to us? He who has assured us that He gives good things to the children who ask...
How are people chosen to lead catechesis? Too often it is an appointment made without much forethought and typically a knee-jerk response by the parish priest when he realizes the First Holy Communion program is beginning shortly and he’s struggling to find anybody to lead the sessions. So he might grab a “volunteer”...
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