This article continues our series on the lives of the Blessed Virgin Mary and Her Divine Son as revealed to Venerable Maria of Agreda, the 17th-century Spanish nun, and documented in The Mystical City of God. On...
Archive - March 2018
Gary TaphornConsummatum est
Cum ergo accepisset Jesus acetum, dixit: Consummatum est.
Et inclinato capite tradidit spiritum.
John 19:30
Catholic Family NewsTo Suffer for Christ: Reflections on Paul, Apostle of Christ
“For unto you it is given for Christ, not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him: Having the same conflict as that which you have seen in me, and now have heard of me” (Philip. 1:29-30). Over the weekend, my...
Matt GaspersMaking Emotion a god
“Do not accept anything as the truth if it lacks love and do not accept anything as love which lacks truth.” – Sr. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, OCD (Edith Stein) Another ongoing crisis in today’s society, amongst the...
CaraRueggPalm Sunday in The Mystical City of God
On January 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, this website published an article on the visit of the Magi as described by the remarkable 17th-century Spanish nun, Venerable Maria of Agreda. Her extensive writings, known to us...
St Patrick’s Day: From the Land of Saints and Scholars to Sodom and Gomorrah
What would St. Patrick think of how his feast day is celebrated throughout the world? Anyone who is familiar with the life of St. Patrick would have to conclude that he would be disgusted with how his feast day has been...
The Root of the Violence: Our Culture
There have been too many tragic mass murders in the last century in American history, spurring on lots of talk of gun control. I’m not about to deny there should be gun reform to an extent. Background...
Is It Coming: The Hybrid Missal?
Continuing from my previous article, “Addressing Mass Rumors”, let us examine the practical aspects of the speculated Hybrid Missal. To re-summarize, Pope Francis is supposedly cooking up a new “traditional” version of...
Louis J. TofariHow can God allow horrific evils like school shootings?
How can God allow horrific evils like school shootings? How could an all loving and all powerful God allow school shootings? This is an objection raised after every school shooting throughout social media and even on...
Five Years of Francis: CFN Editor Discusses Pontificate in New Interview
Five years ago today, Cardinal Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran announced what the Church and entire world had been anxiously awaiting: Habemus Papam! Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Georgium Marium Sanctæ...