Institute of Catholic Culture

"How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal. She weeps bitterly in the night, tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies. Jerusalem, Jerusalem, turn again to the Lord your God."- Lamentations

“Behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and his name shall be called Emmanuel.”- Isaiah 7:14

“It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”- Plato, Apology

“It is not difficult to avoid death, gentlemen; it is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”- Plato, Apology

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

“In the name of tolerance, tolerance is being abolished; this is a real threat we face. The danger is that reason—so-called Western reason—claims that it has now really recognized what is right and thus makes a claim to totality that is inimical to freedom. I believe that we must very emphatically delineate this danger. No one is forced to be a Christian. But no one should be forced to live according to the ‘new religion’ as though it alone were definitive and obligatory for all mankind.”- Pope Benedict XVI

“Blessed be the Lord my rock, Who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; My loving kindness and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer; My shield and He in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me."- Psalms 144:1-2

“Blessed be the Lord my rock, Who trains my hands for war, and my fingers for battle; My loving kindness and my fortress, my stronghold and my deliverer; My shield and He in whom I take refuge; Who subdues my people under me."- Psalms 144:1-2

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth and are not their days like the days of a laborer? ... My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out again ... Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul ... I loathe my life; I would not live forever. Let me alone, for my days are a breath.”- Job 7:1, 5, 11, 16

Two and a half years after the eruption of the "Arab Spring," Egypt has once again engaged in a bloody civil war which has resulted in the burning of churches and persecution of the ancient Christian community of Coptic Christians.