Apostolic Springtime

One of the most exciting things about the Easter Season is welcoming all those who have made an adult choice to become Christian and Catholic. In Atlanta and Washington, DC, thousands have chosen to follow Christ and his Church (as have many thousands more across the country). These people don’t make the headlines, but for them, the real news of the day is Christ’s Resurrection and power over the monotony of the life of emptiness and sin.

Many of these converts list personal relationships with loved ones as the primary movement through which God has drawn them into his truth and love. This is of course how the early Church spread so well: individual Christians and loving communities who were bold in their living of the radical truths of the Gospel.

Each Easter is the same. The hope of Easter springs anew in each place where the Christian community opens itself to new members, seeking after the many who don’t truly know the Risen Lord, but have become dissatisfied with a relativistic, therapeutic materialism.

Bishop Barron reflects on Holy Week’s great reversal of modern cultural norms: “And so, to the cancel culture that says, ‘Everything is permitted but nothing is forgiven,’ we Christians should counter, ‘In light of the cross, we know that many things ought not be permitted,’ and in light of the Resurrection, that ‘everything in principle can be forgiven.’”

Why are Americans unhappy? Fr. Robert Spitzer explains the four levels of happiness and how they are often ignored to our detriment.

Students across the world are told of the practical importance of studying mathematics – but what if the reasons for studying mathematics go far beyond application? Mathematics provides an opportunity to grow in virtue and teaches us how to think.

More than 50 priests have been murdered in Mexico since 2006. Meet the men who are risking their lives to serve God and his people.