"The more we are emptied of ourselves, the more we are filled with God. This presents in its essence the whole process of the spiritual life, with its polarity of negative and positive phases, or, as the Chinese would express it, the Yin and Yang aspects. This polarity between nature and grace, man and God, is patent in all the Beatitudes, of which the first is: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for..

“Anti-Catholicism is one of the distinguishing marks of American history. Today, as the Church’s institutional influence wanes, anti-Catholicism is once again surging. Yet Catholics mustn’t retreat from civic engagement, for the Catechism says that ‘intervening directly’ in the ‘political structuring and organization of social life’ is our ‘vocation.’ How are we to accomplish this? Three theories ..