Our Lord left us a legacy of His love. Lay hold of this treasure and let it transform your life...
The title of this sermon uses the word legacy, which refers to something transmitted by or received from an ancestor or predecessor. Perhaps the most accessible image of this is money. If I receive 100 million dollars from a dying relative, I can the money to start living differently. My bills, which now seem overwhelming, can be paid with just the interest earned from my newfound wealth...
11 things you should know about Charles de Foucauld...
This Sunday, don’t fall for good feelings. Only real love will ‘make all things new’...
Jesus gives us a new commandment this Sunday, the Fifth Sunday of Easter Year C, but it is easy to get this new commandment wrong. It is the night before his death. Jesus washes his apostles’ feet — 12 apostles, 24 feet. Then he announces that one of them will betray him. It turns out to be Judas, who promptly walks out, dirtying the feet his best friend and Lord just cleaned...
A hostage, a resignation, and something completely different...
And a reminder on this feast of Our Lady of Fatima that the bishops of the United States have asked all Catholics to pray the rosary today, given the strong possibility that we could soon see the overturn of Roe v Wade. As we’ve discussed before, the prospect that real limits on abortion could soon be possible in many states would be a serious win for the cause of life in this country...
A Catholic journalist is being canonized this weekend — Titus Brandsma, a new patron saint for Catholic journalism...
As of May 15, Catholic journalists around the world will be able to count one of their number among the saints, as Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite killed at the Dachau concentration camp in 1942, is canonized in St. Peter’s Square. At a moment when Catholic opinion journalism is in danger of falling victim to the ever-present dangers of trivialization...
The fall of Roe v. Wade would right a terrible wrong — pray that God’s healing graces will wash over this land...
Ever since a draft copy of the Supreme Court decision regarding abortion has been leaked, social media has been awash with arguments and testimonies from both sides. It seems to me this is good for the pro-life movement. Whatever the political ramifications of the leaking of the possible Supreme Court decision about abortion, it presents an opportunity to try to educate the public about precisely what an abortion is; and...
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This past weekend, Pope Francis gave a speech to the Pontifical Liturgical Institute of Sant’Anselmo in Rome. I read it and thought to myself, “What if this was a first draft? What could a second draft have looked like?” And so, if Pope Francis wants to hire me as his speechwriter, here’s my second draft...
Converts from Protestantism share how they came around to the Catholic teaching on Mary...
How NOT to respond to a Roe reversal...
If the Supreme Court overturns the Roe v. Wade decision—as this week’s stunning leak suggests it will—here are some mistakes that pro-life advocates should avoid. First, do not accept the liberal narrative that the Court has thwarted the democratic process. That’s what happened in 1973, when the Roe ruling, in a staggering act of judicial arrogance...
How to build a runway in Antarctica out of solid ice...
Making the times that matter...
Cardinal Zen’s arrest will test the Vatican’s agreement with Communist China...
Cardinal Zen is on the road to martyrdom — will Pope Francis say something?
Do you fear the right thing? A meditation on the story of Chicken Little...
7 things you should know about St. Titus Brandsma...
The miracle for his canonization involved a fellow Carmelite. When Florida Carmelite Father Michael Driscoll received a diagnosis of stage-4 melanoma in 2004, he knew where to turn: He began praying for the intercession of Blessed Titus Brandsma, who had been martyred in the Nazi concentration camp at Dachau. A fellow priest gave Father Driscoll a second-class relic...
In First Canonization Ceremony Since 2019, Pope Francis Raises 10 New Saints to the Altars...
Catholic University Awards Honorary Degree to Imprisoned Human Rights Advocate Jimmy Lai...
The President’s recent remarks about abortion were a new low for Joe...
In the wake of the unconscionable leaking of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade, the response from pro-abortion-rights politicians and their supporters has been deplorable. President Joe Biden’s words and actions have been particularly disturbing, given the office that our nation’s so-called “devout Catholic” president occupies and his frequent public claims to be deeply engaged with his Catholic faith...
Christ crucified in the modern world: The priest as sacrificial witness...
The evils of the 20th century hold a strange fascination. We cannot help but read and reread accounts of totalitarian oppression, such as Elie Wiesel’s Night, Anne Frank’s Diary, Viktor Frankl’s profound Man’s Search for Meaning, and Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago. Something about these experiences, primarily relating to the horrors of Naziism and Communism...
One down, 39,136 to go — the explorers who walk every street in their city...
Bishops call for prayer over Roe protests, and a 'hard hitting' vocations story...
The U.S. bishops’ conference has announced a request that Catholics in the U.S. pray the Rosary this Friday, May 13, amid growing demonstrations over the possibility that Roe v. Wade will soon be overturned. The bishops asked that Catholics pray for the U.S., that Roe will be overturned, for “the conversion of the hearts and minds of those who advocate for abortion...
What I saw when abortion enthusiasts blocked the front door of Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Lower Manhattan last Saturday ...
“God killed his kid, why can’t I kill mine?” A woman in a white bathing suit, stuffed to simulate pregnancy, has a few baby dolls attached — they were the babies she was aborting, she told us. “Help me abort my babies.” After dancing and spinning on the grounds outside the church, she later complained, “My aborted babies are all wet...
The most astonishing item in the Sermon on the Mount...
We all associate the Sermon on the Mount with the Beatitudes, but these occupy just ten verses, whereas the whole sermon as recounted in Matthew’s Gospel is more than ten times that length. It occupies 111 verses spanning three chapters (5-7). We would all admit, I think, that Our Lord’s message throughout is deeply spiritual; it was certainly something very different from what His audience was used to hearing...
A super-long blood moon is coming. Here’s how to see it...
How to preserve your digital legacy (and why you should)...
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In tiny Slovenia, big Catholic things come in a small package...
Multum in parvo is a Latin phrase meaning “a lot in a small package.” I know it well because it’s the motto of the pug breed of dog, and I’ve had pugs since I was in the fifth grade. (I actually dispute that pugs are dogs, because dogs occur in nature while pugs definitely don’t, but that’s for another time.) Having just spent a week in the small central European nation of Slovenia – the entire country has a population of around 2...
Update on Unrest: Tabernacle Stolen, Catholic Church Defaced, Pregnancy Clinic Vandalized...
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