Tag: Catholic Church
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When a Civilization Loses Its Horror of Abortion
There are moments when a society does not merely change its laws; it changes what it is capable of seeing. Abortion is one of those questions. The Catholic Church does not oppose abortion because of political fashion, nostalgia, or hostility toward women. She opposes it because an innocent human life is deliberately destroyed. Beneath every…
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The World Hated Him First
The Richmond Catholic Memo, the machinery of suspicion, and why the Church Christ founded will always be an enemy of the spirit of the age “If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.”— John 15:18, Douay-Rheims There is a temptation whenever Catholics discover something like the FBI’s Richmond Catholic…
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Amen, Amen: Faith, Works, Sacraments, and the Gospel of John
Brothers and sisters in Christ, and especially my Protestant brothers and sisters, I want to begin with a simple question. If every outward action connected with salvation is dismissed as a “work,” then what do we do with the Gospel of John? When we read John carefully, we find that Jesus repeatedly presents divine grace…
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From Jerusalem To Rome: WHEN The Shadow Gave Way To The Body
Could ancient Jewish tradition have unknowingly preserved signs pointing to Christ? Yoma 39b records that several Temple signs ceased about forty years before Jerusalem’s destruction in AD 70—roughly the time of the Crucifixion. Seen alongside Hebrews, Romans, and the Gospel accounts, these traditions invite a profound reflection on the passing of the old sacrificial order,…
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The Earling Exorcism: Father Theophilus Riesinger’s 23-Day Battle in Iowa
The extraordinary case of Emma Schmidt, the claims preserved by witnesses, and the victory that belongs to Jesus Christ alone. In 1928, inside a secluded convent near Earling, Iowa, a Capuchin priest began a solemn exorcism that would become one of the most widely discussed cases of alleged demonic possession in American Catholic history. The…
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Did Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich See Martin Luther in Hell?
According to some published accounts of the mystical visions attributed to Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824), she was shown the spiritual consequences of division within Christ’s Church. In these accounts, Emmerich reportedly saw Martin Luther among the condemned and was shown that his rejection of the unity and authority of the Catholic Church had grave…