Day: April 23, 2023

The Poetic Language of the Mass | feat. Fr. Michael Rennier

Fr. Michael Rennier joins the podcast to discuss his new book The Forgotten Language: How Recovering the Poetics of the Mass Will Change Our Lives. Father Michael discusses: His conversion story: from Pentecostal student, to Episcopal priest, to Catholic priestHow the transcendence and wonder of the Mass played a role in his conversionCombatting pride and surrendering […]

A Right to Your Own Happiness?

“It has taken me a long time, Mother and Dad, to realize that you have a right to your own happiness. It is selfish for me to ask that you live any more for me. You did that for years.” So writes Betsy Williams in her farewell letter to her parents before attempting suicide. Betsy […]

Ten Reasons to Make a Holy Hour According to Fulton J. Sheen

Why spend an hour a day in meditation? Because we are living on the surface of our souls, knowing little either of God or our inner self. Our knowledge is mostly about things, not about destiny. Most of our dif­ficulties and disappointments in life are due to mistakes in our life plans. Having forgotten the […]

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of Pontifical Academy for Life, Calls Medically Assisted Suicide ‘Feasible’…

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has spoken in support of legalized medically assisted suicide, calling it “feasible” despite the clear teachings of the Catholic Church against it. “Personally, I would not practice suicide assistance, but I understand that legal mediation may be the greatest common good concretely possible under the […]

Pending Nuclear War

TRANSCRIPT   Only those born before roughly 1985 will have any experiential knowledge of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. But the idea of a Cold War may soon become very real to those born after 1985. And frankly, this Cold War, which, in various ways has already begun, will be a lot costlier; […]

BREAKING: Pontifical Academy of Life president calls medically assisted suicide ‘feasible’

Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, grand chancellor of the Pontifical Institute John Paul II, speaks at a press conference. / Daniel Ibáñez/CNA. Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Apr 23, 2023 / 15:02 pm (CNA). Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, president of the Pontifical Academy for Life, has spoken in support of legalized medically assisted suicide, calling it “feasible” despite the clear teachings of […]