Previously, we explored the question of whether prior to Vatican II there was a doctrine that nation states must confess the ...
Do you ever feel like the Church is divided into two or three eternally warring camps? The liberal, social justice Catholics – who love guitars and wavery-voiced, aging hippies in the choir and focus ...
In the late 19 th and early 20 th century, the philosophy of “Modernism” was creeping into the Church. Its proponents spoke of a God within rather than an external God. These priests and laity ...
Far beyond the claims of post-modernity, the first female authors did not emerge in the West during the 18th, 19th, or 20th centuries. While few and far between, we see their voices developing in ...
“Make your requests known to God,” today’s Second Reading encourages us. The Catechism cites this verse to teach that “every need can become the object of petition. Christ, who assumed all things in ...