Death and marriage are not usually two concepts spoken
in the same breath, in fact they are opposites: marriage
betokens life and renewal, while death the end of hope.
Nevertheless, for Catholics, both are in fact related as
only theological hope could accomplish – death in life
and life found in death – discovered in the beauty of
the Sacred Heart on Calvary. All the baptized are
called to imitate Christ both in His Life and, perhaps
especially, in His Death. To a wonderful degree this
perennial reality is being played out before the world,
blind for the most part, but within which we Catholics
would do well to attend. We have much to learn.
After the events of September 11, 2001, the United
States government promised its citizens that the
'evildoers' would be brought to justice. There was,
understandably, public rage and the desire to right this
wrong. The US was attacked in the center of its
greatest city. There were 2,976 causalities. Grief and
shock covered the mood of the country from the trauma of
the individual and collective violation felt from the
attack....MORE>>>
Merry
Christmas from the CDF
Vatican
Makes It Official: No Change in Church teaching on immorality
of condoms
Michael J. Matt
At press time this week we received
word that the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of
the Faith has issued an official clarification of Pope
Benedict’s recent comments regarding prophylactics. The
clarification is not only as official as it gets but it
was also released in five languages, suggesting that
with some urgency the Vatican means to put the world on
notice that the Holy Father has in no sense changed,
altered or updated Church teaching on the immorality of
condom use
As
these last few weeks of 2010 hurl themselves against the
gates of the New Year, I feel a bit like George Bailey
counting down the seconds to closing time, knowing that
if he can just keep the doors of the old Building & Loan
open for a few more moments Mr. Potter will have failed
to run him out of business. I don’t think I’m letting
any cats out of the bag when I admit that The Remnant
came closer to losing that battle this year than ever
before...MORE>>>
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As
these last few weeks of 2010 hurl themselves against the
gates of the New Year, I feel a bit like George Bailey
counting down the seconds to closing time, knowing that
if he can just keep the doors of the old Building & Loan
open for a few more moments Mr. Potter will have failed
to run him out of business. I don’t think I’m letting
any cats out of the bag when I admit that The Remnant
came closer to losing that battle this year than ever
before...
