Archbishop Leonard P. Blair For a person dedicated to their religious faith, whether Catholic or not, today’s decline in religious self-identification and practice presents a great challenge. In the United States, when asked in 2018 about their religious affiliation, 23.7 percent of respondents answered “none,” compared to only 5.1 percent who answered “none” [...]

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair Para una persona dedicada a su fe religiosa, ya sea católica o no, el declive actual de la autoidentificación y la práctica religiosa suponen un gran desafío. En los Estados Unidos, cuando se les preguntó, en 2018, sobre su afiliación religiosa, el 23,7 por ciento de los encuestados respondió [...]

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair If I were asked what is the Church’s greatest treasure, I would have to say the holy Eucharist because, as the Catechism says, it is “the source and summit of the Christian life ... in which is contained the whole spiritual good of the Church, namely, Christ himself, our [...]

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair Si me preguntaran cuál es el mayor tesoro de la Iglesia, yo diría que es la Sagrada Eucaristía, porque, como dice el Catecismo, es “fuente y culmen de toda la vida cristiana” y “contiene todo el bien espiritual de la Iglesia; es decir, Cristo mismo, nuestra Pascua” (CIC, 1324). [...]

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair On Aug. 13, we will celebrate for the first time on our liturgical calendar the Memorial of Blessed Michael McGivney, a native son and priest of the Archdiocese of Hartford and the founder of the Knights of Columbus. Now that he has been declared “Blessed,” his intercession can be [...]

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair Este año, el 13 de agosto, en nuestro calendario litúrgico, celebraremos por primera vez en la Memoria del Beato Michael McGivney, sacerdote oriundo de la Arquidiócesis de Hartford, y fundador de los Caballeros de Colón. Ahora que ha sido declarado “Beato”, podemos invocar su intercesión en las Misas de [...]

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair On May 23, we celebrated the solemnity of Pentecost, the day on which the gift of the Holy Spirit came down on the disciples, just as Jesus had promised. The result was that they went out with “boldness” to preach the Gospel to the whole world. We, too, receive [...]

In an op-ed piece published in January in the Italian press, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, former prefect of the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that in today’s age of “secularized thinking and mass media, political and ideological viewpoints end up contaminating theological judgment” to the point that, for some people, “the tenets [...]

AMOR Y VERDAD, no ideologíaEn un artículo de opinión publicado en la prensa italiana, en enero, el cardenal Gerhard Muller — ex prefecto de la Congregación Vaticana para la Doctrina de la Fe — dijo que en la era actual de “pensamiento y medios de comunicación secularizados, los puntos de vista políticos e ideológicos terminan [...]

Archbishop Leonard P. Blair As a seminarian many years ago, both philosophy and theology had pride of place in the curriculum of those being prepared for the priesthood. However, the classical philosophy that had been part of priestly training began to give way to new currents of thought in the wake of the Second Vatican Council [...]