“Gloria Dei est vivens homo.” ∼ St. Irenaeus Saint Irenaeus (130-202) wrote that the glory of God is revealed in living human beings; this idea expresses one of the most central ideas of the primitive Church and the period of the Fathers, that of deification or theosis (becoming god-like). This constant theme within the first Christian millennium …
Source: Our Secular World Needs Christian Personhood – Crisis Magazine
COMMENTARY: Humanity’s increased preoccupation with ‘dying with dignity’ is a worrisome sign for our future.
Source: When the ‘Right to Die’ Becomes the ‘Duty to Die’ | ncregister.com
St. Francis seems to be telling me that a healthy spirituality can—and perhaps should—make room to enjoy the simple pleasures and savor God’s many gifts.
Source: How to Be Kinder to Yourself | Busted Halo
And last, the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been; the shame Of things ill done and done to others’ harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue. ∼ T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding, in Four Quartets Author and culture critic par excellence, Mary Eberstadt, has chronicled the shift among …
Source: The New Darling of the Abortion Rights Movement – Crisis Magazine
If you have not read C.S. Lewis’ “Screwtape Letters” please do so. Re-read it if you read it in the past. C. S. Lewis was a great Christian writer and this little book was one of his most prophetic. First published in 1942 it is as relevant today as it was then, maybe more so.
I have encountered serious Catholics who have invoked the Vatican II document Nostra Aetate (Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions) as seemingly discouraging or even reproving any kind of searching public examination and criticism of Islam. What exactly does this short statement of the Vatican II Fathers have to say about …
Source: Nostra Aetate and the Catholic Response to Islam – Crisis Magazine
As rewarding as it is to study the life of a great saint, it is doubly rewarding to study the influences and connections among saints. Take, for example, Blessed John Henry Newman (1801-1890): his journey toward the Catholic priesthood in Victorian England was lit by the fire of St. Philip Neri (1515-1595), the exuberant Italian …
Source: Newman and Neri: A Spiritual Kinship – Crisis Magazine
