The Beauty of The Catholic Church

  • The Example Of The Holy Family

    The mercy of God be eternally praised! He was not satisfied to have given us such a marvelous Redeemer in Jesus Christ, who suffered for us on the Cross, enlightened us with His heavenly doctrines, strengthens and sanctifies us with His Sacraments and guides us in His Church — Jesus is also in every…

  • Nominal-Catholics Are The Most Pernicious Enemies Of The Catholic Church

    “They profess that they know God; but in their works they deny him.” — Tim. i, 16 One of the noblest and most sacred obligations of the Catholic is the duty of openly professing and defending his faith. “Everyone therefore that shall confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father…

  • The Children of the World and the Children of Light; Worldly and Christian Prudence

    “For the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.” — St. Luke xvi, 18. In my previous instructions, I spoke of true and false toleration, the glory and the happiness of the Catholic faith and the misery and misfortune of unbelief. It was my purpose on the…

  • Modern Ignorance in Matters of Faith and it’s Consequences

    “He that is of God, heareth the words of God.”— St. John viii, 47 Truly consoling are the words of the Divine Saviour: “He that is of God, heareth the words of God.” The Christian who truly believes, hopes and loves, may indeed tremble and be anxious about his soul’s salvation when he thinks…

  • The Church Militant on Earth, Her Unbloody Persecutions

    Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”  St. Matt. v, 10. Nothing better demonstrates the truth of the Catholic Church than the constant persecution to which a godless world subjects her. She has inherited in all its fullness the hatred which Jew and Gentile, Pharisee…

  • True and False Toleration

    “With modesty admonishing them that resist the truth; if peradventure God may give them repentance to know the truth.” — II Tim. ii, 25 We have considered how our Divine Saviour compared His Church to a field in which the enemy sowed cockle among the wheat. This cockle represents, in the kingdom of grace…

  • Man’s True Life ~ Eternal Life

    “Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love Him.” — 1 COR. 2, 9. The laws imposed upon man by the Creator are the commands of wisdom and supreme order. They are the conditions of his living…

  • Christian Manhood

    “This above all, ~ to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” Our true self is what we are in God’s mind, what He wishes us to be in our day and generation, so as most to benefit…

  • The Catholic Young Lady

    Oh how beautiful is the chaste generation with glory; for the memory thereof is immortal: because it is known both with God and with man.” — Wis. 4, i. The Christian Family which is the source of human life may rightly be compared to a tree which Almighty God Himself planted in the ground.…

  • The Norm of Morality

    “For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; or whether we die, we die unto the Lord. Therefore, whether we live, or whether we die, we are the Lord’s.”— ROM. 14, 8. I wish to recall to your minds this evening the fundamental ideas of morality as set forth in Christian ethics. I…