What Video Masses Can Teach Us about the Mass

By Michael Pakaluk Tuesday, May 26, 2020 https://www.thecatholicthing.org/ To the perceptive, the corona virus lock downs can teach almost as much about the Mass as the Council of Trent. For others . . . maybe not as much. First off, the lock downs teach that the Mass is essentially a sacrifice offered by the priest, […]

Church must be ready to deal with post-COVID ‘apocalyptic’ scenarios, author claims

  Charles C. Camosy May 26, 2020 CRUX CONTRIBUTOR [Editor’s Note: Michael J. Baxter teaches Religious Studies and is Director of Catholic Studies at Regis University in Denver. He is currently completing a book titled Blowing the Dynamite of the Church: Radicalism Against Americanism in Catholic Social Ethics coming out from Cascade Press. He spoke to […]

The Golden Age of Quackery

OUR POST-CHRISTIAN ANTI-CULTURE FALLS FOR FRAUD & IDOLS By Jason M. Morgan | May 2020 https://www.newoxfordreview.org/documents/the-golden-age-of-quackery/# Jason M. Morgan is associate professor at Reitaku University in Kashiwa, Japan. As I was boarding a cross-country flight a few years ago, I noticed that the passengers ahead of me were stopping in the first-class cabin to take […]

The Anti-Thing

By David Warren https://www.thecatholicthing.org/ Friday, May 22, 2020 Note: Some readers have noted that they can see our new podcast videos on computers but cannot download them to their phones. We’re working on that. We’re also working on audio-only versions for those who like to listen in cars, etc. Our third podcast –  Brad Miner […]

Games Intellectuals Play

by George Weigel 5 . 20 . 20 https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2020/05/games-intellectuals-play Shortly after President John F. Kennedy’s cabinet met for the first time, Vice President Lyndon Johnson waxed enthusiastic about the best and the brightest to his mentor, Speaker Sam Rayburn. They were all so brilliant, LBJ raved, especially “the fellow from Ford with the Stacomb on […]

The Church And The Pandemic

May 21, 2020 by sd https://spiritdailyblog.com/spiritual-warfare/the-church-and-the-pandemic Rarely if ever has there been a more confounding condition, or syndrome, or phenomenon than this spooky “virus” that has hounded — haunted — and continues to haunt the world, impossible for anyone to get one’s arms totally around, at once ephemeral and synthetic, as well as natural, a […]

Welcome Home – Going Back to Mass

BY: ASHLEY BLACKBURN https://veilofveronica.blog/2020/05/19/welcome-home-going-back-to-mass/ Welcome Home! That’s the phrase of the day today as Catholic Churches all over different Diocese’s open back up for Mass.  As I sat in my parish early this morning, I did indeed feel home.  This familiar parish is where my family and I have lived out our Catholic Faith and […]

Catholic churches to resume in-person mass and communion

By David Mattingly | May 12, 2020 at 4:44 PM EDT – Updated May 12 at 6:48 PM LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) – The Archdiocese of Louisville will resume in-person services beginning Wednesday, May 20. In a letter to parishioners, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz outlined precautions including masks and social distancing to prevent the spread of the […]

The Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist // Bishop Barron at 2020

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