The new cardinal of New York gave a stemwinder of a homily Saturday night — repurposing some material from the homily we’d heard on Thursday — and it’s just too good not to share. Looking for something to kickstart your Lent? Take 20 minutes and watch one of the greatest preachers in the American church.
St. Pope Leo the Great in sermons on Lent reveals that for our ancient Roman forebears people fasted and abstained and cut back on what was necessary, not on what was in excess, so that they could give the difference to the poor. We can have some festive joy...
Pope Benedict XVI’s Aristotelian ability to entertain a thought without accepting it occasions more than a few observers to leap to their own conclusions about what the pope holds, but then, when it is pointed out that the pope has not committed himself to a view which he might have articulated here or there, to sputter about with “But, but, but...
In much of the heated public debate on the HHS mandate (that the Catholic Church pay for contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization) and over gay “marriage,” there is a strain to the conversation, that somehow, the Catholic Church is trying to force people to follow what she teaches.
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