Our Lord left us a legacy of His love. Lay hold of this treasure and let it transform your life...
Msgr. Charles Pope
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...

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...
Michael Warsaw
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...
R. Jared Staudt
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...

A tiny fragment of the dinosaur-killing asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago may have been found encased in amber — a discovery even NASA calls ‘mind-blowing’...

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...
J.D. Flynn
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 ...
Kathryn Jean Lopez
“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...
Jeff Mirus
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...

Pope Francis Calls Low Birth Rate a ‘Social Emergency,’ Warns ‘the Beauty of a Family Full of Children Is in Danger of Becoming a Utopia’...

A super-long blood moon is coming. Here’s how to see it...

How to preserve your digital legacy (and why you should)...

‘You are our last hope’ — Pope Francis meets with the wives of two Ukrainian soldiers who are currently fighting to defend Mariupol...

‘Outrageous intimidation’ — The arrest of Cardinal Zen by Hong Kong authorities is prompting reactions around the world...

In tiny Slovenia, big Catholic things come in a small package...
John Allen
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...