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Bigger on the Inside Than the Outside...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
Christmas is the season of pondering the paradox of the Incarnation itself. What was found in the stable at Bethlehem was far greater than everything outside. This is no mere poetic exaggeration. The infinite God assumed a finite human nature. What was in this child, no bigger than a breadbox at first but soon to grow in wisdom and stature...
A Baptist Pastor Rethinks Salvation by ‘Faith Alone’...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
Matt, Ken, and Kenny continue their discussion about one of the most important questions a Christian can ask: what is the Gospel? Former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley shares seven key realizations that helped him understand that the Reformation doctrine of salvation by “faith alone” wasn’t supported by the testimony of the Scriptures.
Pope Leo’s Sunday Angelus: ‘We Are Precious in God’s Eyes’...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
Each day, let us make time to pray and reflect, in order to encounter the Lord Who loves us, Pope Leo XIV invited on Sunday during his midday Angelus address. Addressing the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square, the Pope recalled the day's Gospel reading according to St. John in which John the Baptist recognized Jesus as the Lamb of God...
Cardinal Roche Doubles Down on ‘Traditionis Custodes’...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
In an undelivered address to cardinals last week, Cardinal Arthur Roche planned to voice opposition to the traditional Roman Rite, which he sees as a concession that needs to be eventually phased out in favor of the post-Vatican II liturgy as the unique expression of the Latin Rite. In a two-page text on Traditionis Custodes...
Faith and the top college QBs...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
A recent New York Times feature noted that quarterback Fernando Mendoza, before helping change Indiana University football history, excelled at Belen Jesuit, an all-boys Catholic school in Miami, and then Miami Columbus High, another all-boys Catholic school. Oh, and his mother was a star athlete at Lourdes Academy, an all-girls Catholic school...
Supreme Court arguments exposed the absurdity of gender ideology...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
This week’s oral arguments before the Supreme Court, in cases involving state laws that ban boys from girls’ sports, may prove to be a decisive turning point in the surreal political struggle over gender ideology. The battle is not won, but the momentum has shifted. Credit Justice Samuel Alito with the question that fully exposed the absurdity of the argument before the court...
Mary and the Gift of Motherhood...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
Motherhood is an amazing gift that only women have. Yet so many of our fellow citizens have been programmed to view it instead as a burden, an obstacle to career advancement, or even a disease to be avoided at all costs through sterilization, contraception, and abortion...
The Evangelist in Stanley Prison...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
In a 1974 address to a group of lay Catholics, Pope Paul VI noted that "Modern man listens more willingly to witnesses than to teachers, and if he does listen to teachers, it is because they are witnesses" — an acute observation he later reiterated in his spiritual testament, the 1975 Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Nuntiandi (Announcing the Gospel)...
For Him, Roche’s Rorschach Test, and a Pause for Thought...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
I don’t know how it came to happen that I, of all people, ended up with a daughter as biddable and sweet natured as I did. It’s not genetic, that’s for sure. She’s universally doted upon, to be sure, especially since we waited more than a decade — I won’t say always patiently, though usually prayerfully — for her arrival. Being a beloved and indulged only child has to...
This Sunday, We Each Meet the Lamb of God Who Changes Everything...
Posted on 01/21/2026 09:00 AM (New Advent)
John the Baptist tells us that he has been told that Jesus Christ is the Lamb of God, and that we can expect the Holy Spirit. In other words, at the Father’s command we become one with the Son with the Spirit, and enter into the life of the Trinity. This changes everything for Christians...