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
It was June 6, 1987. Ronald Reagan was on his way to Rome to meet with Pope John Paul II. Their first meeting at the Vatican had taken place five years earlier, June 7, 1982, whereupon the two men shared their mutual convictions that they believed God had spared their lives from assassination attempts the …
Source: Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, and Fatima – Crisis Magazine
