The Church and Mainland China

The Church and Mainland China

Fr. George Rutler October 6, 2018 0 Comments

The opening line of a children’s poem by Mary Howitt in 1828 is a caution for growing up in a duplicitous world: “‘Will you walk into my parlour?’ said the Spider to the Fly.” Christians must be “wise as serpents and innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16) because we are sent as sheep into a world…

Forget Not The Effect of the Blessed Sacrament in every Catholic parish tabernacle

Fr. George Rutler September 16, 2018 0 Comments

On the ninth of October in 1845, Blessed John Henry Newman was received into the Catholic Church by the Passionist priest Blessed Dominica Barberi. On the 150th Anniversary of that meeting of saints, to the very hour, I had the privilege of offering Mass in the little room where it took place.       Newman’s…