Catholic Daily Brief

Is Communism undemocratic?

Is Communism immoral?

Chapter 4: How to know whether we are acting with distrust of self and trust in God Chapter 5: Timidity is not a virtue Chapter 6: Further advice on distrust of self and trust in God

Is Communism against religion?

Chapter 1: In What Spiritual Perfection Consists Chapter 2: On Distrust of Self Chapter 3: On Trust in God

"The truth finally becomes apparent that neither in any operation with factual propositions nor in any appeal to instinct can the Innovator find the basis for a system of values. None of the principles he requires are to be found there: but they are all to be found somewhere else."

"And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more 'drive', or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or 'creativity'. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men withou...

"If naturalism is right, then it is at this point, at the study of man himself, that it wins its final victory and overthrows all our hopes: not only our hope of immortality, but our hope of finding significance in our lives here and now. On the other hand, if naturalism is wrong, it will be here that it will reveal its fatal philosophical defect, and that is what I think it does."

"The Angels of heaven, He said, rejoice more over one sinner doing penance than ninety-nine just who need not penance; the publican in the back of the temple mourning over his sins, He said, went back to his house justified. Now in His farewell discourse before the Ascension, He bade the world repent."

"If Our Lord took the worst the world had to offer, and then by the power of God rose above it; if He, the unarmed, could make war with no other weapon than goodness and pardon, so that the slain had the gain, and they who killed Him lost the day, then who should ever be without hope? Who shall ever despair in any momentary defeat by evil? Who shall fail to trust when he sees walking in the darkne...

"If this commission were given solely for the time span of the Apostles, it is evident that they could not possibly go to all nations. The dynamism or current that was passed into the Apostles under the headship of Peter was to continue until Christ’s Second Coming. No doubt was left concerning the authority and the work of the Church when the Master would leave the earth."

"Thus we must admit that Faith, as we know it, does not flow from philosophical argument alone; nor from experience of the Numinous alone; nor from moral experience alone; nor from history alone; but from historical events which at once fulfil and transcend the moral category, which link themselves with the most numinous elements in Paganism, and which (as it seems to us) demand as their pre- supp...

"If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on to its young. The work is urgent, for men perish around us."

Why can't there be women priests?

"Thomas thought that he was doing the right thing in demanding the full evidence of sensible proof; but what would become of future generations if the same evidence was to be demanded by them? The future believers, the Lord implied, must accept the fact of the Resurrection from those who had been with Him."

The Resurrection of Our Lord; the conclusion of Sister Emmerich's visions

The Events of Holy Saturday and the Harrowing of Hell

The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus; The Earthquake and Appearance of the Dead

The Scourging, the Crowning with Thorns, and Pilate's 'Ecce Homo'

Mary's grief; Jesus in the subterranean prison

The cruelty towards Our Lord in the house of Caiphas, and the denials of St Peter

Jesus before the tribunals of Annas and Caiaphas

The plotting of the enemies of Christ, and the chaos in and around Jerusalem during Holy Thursday night

Chapter 3: Jesus is Arrested

Chapter 2: Judas and His Band