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Today’s General Audience: In a fresh appeal for Christian unity, in particular between Catholics and Orthodox was made by Benedict XVI today, who at the end of his general audience asked the faithful to pray for the successful outcome of the meeting of the International Mixed Commission for theological dialogue between the Catholic Church and the…

Aimee Milburn has a nice post examining Francis Beckwith’s interview with Tim Drake in Catholic World Report. There you have it.  Catholicism does not teach “works righteousness.”  And Beckwith is correct.  But the Catholic teaching is not the same as the Protestant; it is an entire paradigm shift to understand it.  Salvation is not just…

We’re talking evangelization and preaching, so here are a few good examples for your edification of priests doing great preaching and making the fruits of their labors available on the Web:

Just some follow up thoughts and links: Three critiques in the same general area, all from Christianity Today, a mainstream evangelical publication.

I once said that if I were to ever go back to graduate school, (which isn’t going to happen),  my PhD dissertation would be on post Vatican II transitions – perhaps focusing on one diocese or one cluster of parishes.  An alternative fantasy dissertation is evolving, though – a look at transitioning styles of mission, worship…

To long-time blogger, fellow Living Faith contributor and Jesuit Mark Mossa who was ordained to the diaconate on Saturday! As well as to art critic, biographer, commenter and opera librettist Terry Teachout who was married on Saturday!

I should mention the homily I heard this weekend, delivered, as usual, in measured, deliberate, confident tones. He covered: 1) The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary and the Battle of Lepanto 2) The importance of praying the rosary today, as an armament in the battles we face – he did actually mention “Militant…

We just had a most unusual visitor. I pulled into the garage after the weekly library trip, ready to unload the crate, when I turned and saw, to me out of nowhere, an older man walking down the driveway. About my height (which means short), well-dressed in a Sunday casual kind of way. He said, “Do…

It was late Saturday afternoon, late enough for Sunday Mass. I didn’t think we were that late, but given the no-nonsense approach to liturgy in this parish and the fact that they recite the Gloria rather than sing it, a “little late” brings you right into the middle of the Responsorial Psalm. We squeezed into…

..in case you were wondering.  See, the problem with making a decision to cut down on your blogging is that it makes the decision to actually blog much more difficult to make. For me, at least, it puts so much more weight on what to blog, because if something relatively unimportant strikes you as bloggable,…
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