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PAPAL VISIT REPORT: Biblical Reflections on Seeing a Pope
Like many this past week, I was blessed to have the rare opportunity to see Pope Francis up close and personal during his U.S. tour. I’ve seen friends and acquaintances share their stories of their varying successes in seeing the Pope. Some got outside the U.S. Capitol building and saw him as a distant dot in a…
Fr. Hardon on St. Michael the Archangel
Over the past nine days, we’ve had the novena to St. Michael on our Facebook page, with each day posting in the mornings. St. Michael is so many things, from assistant to the Blessed Mother at Fatima, to stalwart captain of the Heavenly Army, declaring to Satan, “Who is like God?” Given our situation today, where…
Happy Feast of St. Robert Bellarmine!
It’s our name day, and we are pleased to have such a powerful intercessor for the Bellarmine Forum. St. Bellarmine, besides being a doctor of the Church, is well noted among us for his continual highlighting the extent to which God went over and above all bounds in the things He has done, and does,…
NFL JUSTICE: Roger Goodell, Zeus, and the Justice of God
The NFL’s punishment of its players has been in the news quite a bit recently, and while NFL players getting in trouble is nothing new, the past year has seen a shift in focus. While the actions of the players are still the focal point of the coverage, there has been increasing scrutiny on how the…
Misguided Ecumenism 30 years later: Peter Kreeft says the Catholic Church Must Become More Protestant
When I was in grade school, there was a movement in the parish where my Catholic school was that happened alongside the push for “RENEW” — the “Gym” Mass. A young hippy priest, Fr. Tom, came in and decided that us kids didn’t like pews and pipe organs and traditional hymns, so they’d have Mass with…
Why Not Give to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development?
Hasn’t it undergone a major overhaul recently? When asked to explain, in a nutshell, why a Catholic might continue to oppose the annual Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) collection, despite recent protestations that the CCHD has put its house in order, there are four solid responses: CCHD continues to make grants to organizations that…
Russia To Build World’s Largest Statue of Jesus next to China, North Korea, Japan
When I was just coming out of law school, Tom Monaghan had been working on the concept of a University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The planning and zoning commission had never received the updated area impact study, or developmental impact plans, I forget which part, but I remember going to the planning office and looking at the…
7 Surprising Things about St. Pius X
Pope Pius X was an ordinary guy who changed papal dining habits, created a spy network, caused miracles, carried candy for street people, and gave daily sermons – all while fighting modernism! but wait! there’s more!
US Bishops Seem to Say It’s OK to be Too Busy for God
There is a point in everyone’s life when you begin to see the tug-of-war between God and the World. The Gospels highlight, underline, and encircled this very tug-of-war during the encounter our Lord had with Satan in His forty days: The devil put it out there clearly: “all these kingdoms are mine.” Related to this…
St. Maximilian Kolbe: “No one in the world can change Truth!”
On the feast of St. Kolbe, it’s worth recalling this observation of his: “No one in the world can change Truth!” What we can do and should do is to seek truth and to serve it when we have found it. The real conflict is an inner conflict. …there are two irreconcilable enemies in the…
