“One very common form of the blunder is to make modern conditions an absolute end, and then try to fit human necessities to that end, as if they were only a means. Thus people say, ‘Home life is not suited to the business life of today.’ Which is as if they said, ‘Heads are not [...]
Amazingly simple and profound words from Pope Benedict XVI speaking to some children about learning, friends and Jesus. I love it. And while it’s a wonderful message for children, it needs to be heard and reflected upon even more so by all of us adults:
Most alumni of Catholic colleges and universities in the United States are blind to what is troubling Catholic higher education today. Despite increased public awareness of scandals at many Catholic colleges, including pro-abortion commencement speakers, campus performances of The Vagina Monologues, and dissident and heretical theology professors, alumni publications rarely hint at the controversies on [...]
The Catholic label is so frequently misleadingly applied anymore that it has unfortunately become just that – a label. And it’s often a very inaccurate one at that. But despite a relativistic culture increasingly comfortable with pluralistic definitions, the word Catholic still means something objective to a lot of us. And it most certainly still [...]
