The saints are always greater, because the Gospel is always greater. Greater than our usual categories, our customary ways of thinking. Archbishop Fulton Sheen was just that, as his beatification in St. Louis on Thursday illustrated. The homily…
Generation Z is more religious than previous generations and its members frequently engage in religious practices, a new poll finds. Those “religious practices” can be positive, like prayer or attending religious services, but they can also be…
‘We saw goodness at its best. We also saw evil at its worst. But good always triumphs over evil.’ The post 9/11: How heroic faith inspired conversion and hope in Christ appeared first on The Catholic Thing. Source…
At the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, there are 184 stainless-steel benches, one for each person who lost their life there. The post Catholic faith endures at Pentagon 25 years after 9/11 appeared first on The…
Why is there something rather than nothing? Why is that something such that it has the remarkable capacity to evolve into the complex yet orderly universe we behold, so orderly that predictability and science are possible? Why do even the…
Father Spitzer hopes readers recognize that the relationship of science and reason with faith are complementary and corroborative instead of contradictory. The post Catholic priest’s new study Bible brings faith and science…
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There is currently a bunch of restoration work going on at Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Subsequently a bunch of articles have been appearing about new archeological evidence supporting biblical narratives. Similarly, there is new evidence…
Soon-to-be-Blessed Fulton Sheen once quipped, “The questions of God are more satisfying than the answers of man.” (That’s a variation on his friend G.K. Chesterton’s line, “The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.”)…
I sometimes hear people say something like this: “I want to believe, but I just can’t,” or “I would like to believe, but I just don’t.” I don’t wish to be critical of such people. I assume their reserve about “faith” comes out of a good-willed…
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