When Pope Francis called for a worldwide consultation of lay Catholics about their concerns as part of the Synod on Synodality, U.S. bishops responded less than enthusiastically. Instead, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops put its time, effort and money into a national programme called the Eucharistic Revival. It was not impossible to do both Read more
When Pope Francis called for a worldwide consultation of lay Catholics about their concerns as part of the Synod on Synodality, U.S. bishops responded less than enthusiastically. Instead, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops put its time, effort and money into a national programme called the Eucharistic Revival. Eucharistic Revival It was not impossible to Read more
A new study has attempted to discredit the infamous Pew Study from 2019, which showed the dismal reality of Catholic liturgical catechesis, that even among practising Catholics, very few believe in the Real Presence. If this new study is more accurate, this is good news! The Pew study asked respondents what they think the Church Read more
Catholicism has been sometimes described as a very materialistic religion. Why? Because Catholics take created reality seriously. Karl Rahner, S.J., once called Christians “the most sublime of materialists” because they “neither can nor should conceive of any ultimate fullness of the spirit and of reality without thinking too of matter enduring as well in a Read more
A fundamental difference in the centuries since the Protestant Reformation between the teachings and practice of the Catholic Church and that of most Protestant denominations has centered on what one believes happens at the celebration of the Eucharist. Unlike (most of) their Protestant brethren, Catholics profess that in the Eucharist, the bread and wine on Read more
If ‘organisation’ were a gift of the Holy Spirit, boy, would I be a saint by now. I’ve never been much good at speaking in tongues, prophecy or healing (read: not at all). But I have been labelled the “Queen of Spreadsheets” (rather Marian huh? I wonder if there is an ‘Our Lady Queen of Read more