It's time to get serious about Fatima...
14 reasons why God wants nothing to do with Deism...
What happened in Turkey? Look for two words ('secular' and 'Ataturk') in news reports...
So what was the attempted coup in Turkey all about? It seems pretty clear at this point that no one really knows (or they are not saying). Were experts at the White House and the U.S. state department really flying blind on this one, as appeared to have been the case? I'm no expert on Turkish history in the 20th century, but I have been to Istanbul twice and heard the local experts explain that nation's unique standing as a "secular" Muslim state...
St. Mary Magdalene is the sister of Sts. Martha and Lazarus...
Although doubted by most modern biblical “scholars” and somewhat obscured by the Novus Ordo Liturgy, there is no reason to doubt that St. Mary Magdalene is St. Mary of Bethany, the sister of Sts. Martha and Lazarus. Furthermore, she is the penitent woman described in Luke 7 who wept at the Lord’s feet and drying then with her hair anointed them with the rich perfume...
91-year-old woman fills in $89,000 artwork she mistook for a crossword puzzle...
I get the sense that Cardinal Sarah’s speech marked a turning point...
On 5 July 2016, in London, Robert Card. Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, gave a powerful address at a conference on liturgy. Card. Sarah appealed to priests to say Mass ad orientem. Let’s call it the Sarah Appeal. I fully expect that there will soon be a tremendous backlash unleashed on all who support the Cardinal’s proposal...
Archbishop Cupich has become America's newest ‘kingmaker’...
There is a saying that the only mystery deeper than the Trinity is how new bishops are selected. That maxim is especially relevant when speaking about the important Vatican office of the Congregation for Bishops, which is in charge of the discreet but vital process of choosing most of the world’s bishops and archbishops. Currently headed by the Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet...
It's time to put out electric votive candles...
Some people look at the darkening cloud and try to find the silver lining. Others see the lining first and pretty much put the cloud out of their minds. I know it may be more responsible to adopt the first attitude, but often enough I find myself taking the second. We already have entered into a long, hot summer. Temperatures have been in the triple digits here (Fahrenheit...
Correction please: Concerning that Catholic 'ordained minister' arrested for child porn...
For Catholic schools to survive, their Catholicity must thrive...
We hear a lot about the decline of Catholic schools, but maybe not enough. The numbers are staggering: Catholic school enrollment has declined more than two-thirds in the last 50 years, from 5.2 million to 1.9 million students. Even so, Catholic homeschoolers perceive significant growth in their numbers, with the freedom to explore a vast menu of resources that improve upon the stale textbooks used by many schools...
How a pope and an antipope became friends and saints...
In our present political and social climate, where common ground is growing scarce, where divisions run deep and social reconciliation seems impossible, a story that can give people hope is always welcome. Here is one such story – a true one — about two saints, Pontian and Hippolytus. It begins in the early 3rd century, when St...
US bishops throw support behind conscience protections on marriage...
Entertaining God: A look ahead at the 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time...
Msgr. C. Eugene Morris: “Right worship leads to right conduct”...
How to celebrate Mass “ad orientem”...
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The priority of personal prayer...
Today’s Gospel is the very familiar one of Martha and Mary. Martha is the anxious worker seeking to please the Lord with a good meal and hospitality; Mary sits quietly at His feet and listens. One has come to be the image of work, the other of prayer. Misinterpreted? In my lifetime I have heard many a sermon that interpreted this Gospel passage as a call for a proper balance between work and prayer...
The extraordinary child saint who could convert anyone: St. Catherine of Alexandria...
Eleven centuries after her death she miraculously appeared to and advised St. Joan of Arc, her body was supernaturally buried by angels, and she personally converted hundreds of souls during her short lifetime before dying as a martyr. You may not have even heard of her, but she used to be considered one of the most important saints in Christendom: the great St...
The saints proclaim the happy news: In Heaven, we'll meet again!...
I wrote at the Register a couple weeks back that I had no idea there was so much that saints said about life in heaven, and how we’ll meet again. Growing up as a Protestant I received the gamut of opinions, arguments, and exegesis on the possible outcomes. Then there was that confusing book turned movie, The 5 People You Meet In Heaven...
The Lord’s Prayer during Mass: Should we hold hands? Or raise them in the air?
Imagine if people actually fell for John Lennon's nonsense...
Sometime back, I wrote a little piece about John Lennon’s hymn to original sin (aka “Imagine”) expressing my bafflement at the fact that people (including Catholics who ought to know better) regard this as a hope-filled anthem of the Coming Great Rosy Dawn and not as what it is, Music to Accompany the Machine Gunning of the Counter-Revolutionaries...
11 great quotes by (and about) St. Bonaventure...
The legend is told that in the early decades of the 13th Century, a mother was grieving terribly that her young son, John, was becoming increasingly sick and looked as though he were going to die. Desperate for a miracle, she turned to the most saintly man in all of Christendom—in fact, one of the most saintly men that the world had ever known: Saint Francis of Assisi...
Vatican condemns Nice attack as 'homicidal madness'...
The Cross of Jesus: God’s awful work of love...
I would like to continue reflecting on Fleming Rutledge’s extraordinary book 'The Crucifixion', which I consider one of the most insightful theological books of the decade. In a previous article, I drew attention to Rutledge’s bracing insistence on the awfulness and shame of the crucifixion. In the ancient world, there was no punishment more painful...
Crazy, holy love: The mad monk who built a cathedral-sized church by hand...
It sounds like a pious legend from the early Middle Ages: A monastic postulant contracts tuberculosis before taking final vows, and is expelled from the monastery after eight years. On his sickbed, the former monastic takes a vow to the Blessed Virgin, if he is healed, to raise a shrine in her honor. After he recovers, he spends the rest of his life — over half a century — building...
Cardinal Sarah's speech has been a stealth success, as shown by the panicky reactions...
White Christian America has surrendered its demographic and political dominance...
Could a volcano be waking up on the outskirts of Rome? (warning: autoplay video)...
Archaeology casts new light on the Philistines...
Nun who stood up to Billy the Kid to be subject of TV series...
An incredible story: Friend of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, alcoholic, priest of mercy...
There’s a yoke to be carried in following Jesus. Just make sure it's Jesus' yoke, not yours...
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