by Guest Author | Sep 30, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
Eucharistic Coherence is a term in vogue recently. As Catholics we have to ask ourselves, “What is Eucharistic Coherence and how did this term pop up out of nowhere?” If this is the first time you’ve heard the term, that’s OK – it just means you’re not keeping...
by Guest Author | Sep 7, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
Glimpsing Heaven on Earth The hot summer day in our Midwestern town began with no warning that the soft, cozy rug my husband and I had under our feet would suddenly be pulled out from under us. He called in the afternoon to tell me he had lost his dream job, not due...
by Guest Author | Aug 24, 2021 | CUP Blog, Preservation of Religious Liberty (and Other)
By Matt Rowe August 24, 2021 In a previous piece I wrote about our church’s crisis of leadership courage, and how we as the laity have a responsibility to demonstrate our support for the priests whom we know are morally and spiritually correct. It takes courage of...
by Guest Author | Aug 15, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
Long ago, after reading a pastor’s note on peace, I asked, “What is peace?” Many will say peace is the lack of war, some will say it’s a feeling of comfort and others will say that Christ is peace. All of these answers are correct but Philippians 4:6 says,...
by Guest Author | Aug 9, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
By Matt Rowe Judging by the way the Church hierarchy has publicly responded to political events and the COVID virus, the leadership of the church appears much more concerned with our mortal bodies and earthly issues than our immortal souls. In the US, church...
by Guest Author | Aug 4, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
In the 1992 movie, A Few Good Men (1992) there was an explosive exchange in which Tom Cruise’s character, Lt. Daniel Kaffee, is relentlessly cross-examining Col. Nathan Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson, about a tragic incident that left a Marine dead. Kaffee is...
