Back to Basics

Cardinal Gerhard Muller helps us understand how the complementarity and differences between man and woman reveal the Divine Mystery.

To build a Culture of Integrity and to radiate its beauty, we need to foster values, build structures, and present role models that can teach, support, and exemplify integrity lived out in the real world. In this Year of the Laity, “The renewal of our country thus demands of us all, and especially of you, our lay faithful, a return to truthfulness and the fostering of the sense of the common good…. We must seek the truth, speak the truth, do the truth… and to do so ‘in love,’ that is, in solidarity with and service of others.”

The Holy Eucharist unites us with Christ, separates us from sin, reconciles us with one another, and builds up the Christian community, the Church.

This article explains about the renewal of the Holy Spirit, and what it means to the Church today.

This Holy Week, consider turning off the noise of media around us. Consider the beauty of Christ’s sacrifice on the Cross, and, free from the noise which draws us away, be transformed by the beauty, and the meaning, of Jesus |Christ and his resurrection.

Did you know that fasting is mentioned more times in Scripture than baptism (about 77 times for fasting , only 75 for baptism)? Have you experienced that true fasting can change your life?

Today’s Catholic is called to take an intelligent, spiritual approach to the Bible.

Issues of honesty, morality and political responsibility have grabbed the media headlines since the beginning of 2008, today 2014 even more than usual. As practicing Christians, we need to go back to the basics and principles of morality and business ethics, and review them so we can better understand what Christ wants us to do. This article tells us that being moral in the marketplace is a challenge for us to be heroes.

2014 is here; God is giving us a new year full of challenges, joys and sorrows. At this time we often reflect and prepare a bucket list of resolutions that, we hope, will improve our life. To help us do this (whatever time of year it may be) Thomas a Kempis in his inspiring book of reflections The Imitation of Christ shares his thoughts on how we can improve our lives.

Purgatory is part of our journey toward heaven. This short “Basics” article helps us understand this “state of final purification” and its relationship to sin, guilt, temporal punishment, and how blessed we are as Catholics to have this hope in eternal life.