I don’t know if you follow Catholic commentary on the internet regarding current affairs in the Church. Sometimes, I am dismayed by how negative and polarised it can be. You can almost feel the fear and anger behind both what’s being said and how it’s being said. If we think...

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I not only recommend the linked article below, but the other links contained within it, particularly Bishop Olmsted’s letter to Catholic men.   https://www.missiodeicatholic.org/p/gethsemane-and-catholic-masculinity?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/05/culture-of-fragility   https://www.thecatholicthing.org/   https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2023/05/what-judaism-teaches-about-lust

Full text of Bishop Paul Coakley’s pastoral letter on gender dysphoria, transgender movement    

https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2023/04/22/st-francis-of-assisi-saint-of-the-body-and-blood-of-our-lord/   https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/05/spiritual-death-of-the-west   https://www.firstthings.com/article/2004/01/the-gospel-according-to-tolkien-visions-of-the-kingdom-in-middle-earth

FOR THE ENGLISH TEXT SCROLL DOWN TO PAGE 35!   Europa IT ENG

Sunday morning came, and it was one of calm, like the sleep of innocents, and the clear, benign air seemed almost as if it had been stirred by angels’ wings. Mary walked in the garden and someone near her spoke a word, and pronounced it longingly, wistfully, in that touching...