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https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/07/03/only-one-name/ Commentary For those of us who have genuine good-will intact within our consciousness, we can all readily agree that, for instance, looking at a brood of newborn kittens being snuggled close by momma cat is going to be an equally awwww-some experience for all of us, albeit in slightly different ways as garnered by…

Let me ask you this question. Did Jesus come into our midst to start a Church for it to "naval gaze", hold celebrity contests, and become more pre-occupied with the 'news-worthy' gossip of its own status-quo? I don't think so but the reality of the matter is, the state of the Church in our time…

This article has been in the fallows of gestation. It has taken a while for me to finally become ready and able to piece this together since the subject-matter has weighed very heavily upon my heart since the war began. As such it was not written all in one hit. It was "pieced together" from…

Jesus often talks about how it is important to understand Him as the Bread of Life. What does this really mean? Having just celebrated this past week gone, the Feast of Corpus Christi (the Most Holy Body & Blood of Our Lord), I have spent some time in reflection on what in actuality this feast…

https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2024-04/pope-francis-g7-summit-italy-artificial-intelligence.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NewsletterVN-EN Get this!…There's a good reason why people call mathematics a "language" because it is a language - and computational mathematics is essentially a complex communicative tool made up of number series, strings of them to be exact, hence why this article is talking about the Vatican stressing the need for ethics surrounding how us…

https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/catholic-charities-isn-t-religious-so-sayeth-the-wisconsin-supreme-court?utm_campaign=NCR&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--N1XReZIDm8V6uOEQuCqmDICTBmKg5D-VFoofn5rQMkmnLnCU9COwiat6tOC8SUAzhM4R6nR-CaqhLNIB4SuUYxvS9kA&_hsmi=304339729&utm_content=304339729&utm_source=hs_email 👍🤣Too secular!!!? There you have it Michael Warsaw! Just like the St Vincent de Paule Society here in Australia! I mean, if the founder of 'Vinnies', Bl Frederic Oznam could see how it operates here in this country, albeit very "secularly", no spiritual mentoring, no focus on providing any kind of spiritual support to…

https://international.la-croix.com/opinions/dawkins-cultural-christianity-political-theologies-and-the-church-of-pope-francis?at_source=piano&at_medium=email&at_campaign=11588&pnespid=Aacv71NX9npJi16M_ZTMDh9QrEJo0Osqr1hHRLsBOYDK1iC4NPJW19mGsB4I_SSO8p1L8LoYlw There needs to be a balance and this balance means that the traditional European cultural Christianity needs to be reconfigured anew as genuinely welcoming in that true, authentic, Internationalist, Universal spirit of favouring solidarity with other cultural expressions of the Gospel and it also needs to recognize the invaluable indigenous Hebraic cultural contribution to…

https://international.la-croix.com/culture/the-passage-of-time?at_source=piano&at_medium=email&at_campaign=11588&pnespid=HbNz8ERctidLzU7P55TCSUVPuh8xxbBxtBxcRqAKIozKsvXr4tf.kOjhdP2gXFRuq3y8hH2f3w "The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life" Seamus Heaney God Forbid!! That is my earnest prayer. It need not be that way - the way that Seamus Heaney declared, as distilled from the cynicism of this quote - our lives 'set frozen in a mould of inertia, unable…

The Resurrection by Carl Heinrich Bloch (digital commons media)

The Anastasis (Harrowing of Hell) by Fra Angelico (circa 1440s) ¹ During the year of Our Lord's Passion, the Passover as it was celebrated according to Jewish Tradition was actually celebrated on Holy Saturday. Before His death at Calvary on Good Friday, Jesus celebrated the same Passover with His disciples on the Thursday because He…