Check out these recent articles from around the web: Insecurity Goes Deeper Than Stagnating Incomes by David Lapp: “Economic insecurity contributes to relationship insecurity. It’s a factor that contributes to the breakdown of marriages and keeps many cohabiting couples from marrying in the first place. Economic insecurity’s impact on relationships is reinforced in a culture… Read More Around the Web
Pope Francis: “Holiness cannot be bought. It can’t be sold. It cannot be given away. Holiness is a journey to God’s presence that I must make: no one else can do it in my name.”
One Sunday, in the quiet time after Communion, I turned to the back of my family missal to find a new prayer to fill the silence. I found The Litany for Humility, a short prayer whose cadence seemed perfect for a quick prayer towards the end of Mass. As I read on, however, the language started… Read More Can A Modern Catholic Be Humble and Ambitious?
Millennial writer Daniel DiLeo has a new article at Political Theology Today. He writes: The Catholic tradition describes conscience as “the most secret core and sanctuary” of a person wherein she discovers God’s law of love and is moved to discerningly “love good and avoid evil” (Gaudium et Spes #16). In order to judge rightly,… Read More Laudato Si and Faithful Citizenship
via Vatican Radio: “Riches in themselves are good,” the Pope explained, but they are “relative, not absolute” goods. He criticized the so-called “theology of prosperity”— according to which “God shows you that you are just if He gives you great riches,” saying those who follow it are mistaken. The problem lies in being attached to… Read More Pope Francis Denounces the Prosperity Gospel and Exploitation of the Poor
Pope Francis recently offered some excellent insight and advice at a mass for teens. Here are 10 of his key messages: Love, in other words, is the Christian’s identity card, the only valid “document” identifying us as Christians. If this card expires and is not constantly renewed, we stop being witnesses of the Master. Before… Read More 10 Key Messages for Young People from Pope Francis
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Pope to visit icon of world without mercy in Auschwitz by Ines San Martin: ‘At the infamous German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz, among the first things one encounters upon entering is a quotation from the Spanish thinker George Santayana: “Those who do not… Read More Around the Web
