Carry No Purse, No Bag, No Sandals...
Today’s Gospel at Mass had me thinking about a homily I heard a few years ago in Omaha on Luke 10:4, which contains Jesus’ instructions for the disciples as he sends them out on mission: “Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals.” How does ditching your purse, bag and sandals even work for me? Not a rejection of legitimate self-defense, possessions. It’s a mindset. Priorities. Different for each, detachment is the key. Not being possessed by possessions...
Pope Francis Writes Letter to New Cardinals: ‘You Express the Church’s Unity’...
Doctrine Dicastery Overturns Vatican Ruling in Priest Laicization Case...
Growing Seeds of Faith in America: Catholicism in ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’...
Sadie stood on the boat, heavy with child, a toddler clinging to her hand, the shores of France shrinking into the distance. It had been weeks already since she had left her home in Lebanon—where she had lived with her fellow Christians in fear and poverty due to Ottoman persecution. At the age of eighteen, she was going with...
This Sunday, Give Up the Lie: Meet Jesus and Offer Him Your True Self...
Too often, when we look in the mirror, we see a dream version of ourselves instead of what is in front of our eyes. We so badly want to be the “best version of ourselves” that this is all we see. But then, when we get a glimpse of our true selves, it can be jarring — like seeing a picture of ourselves and saying, “Yikes. I thought I looked better than that!”
Report: Nearly 150 Catholic Hospitals Provided Transgender Surgeries or Drugs to Children...
My truth? The real Personal truth is neither mine nor yours...
Back in August, on the Feast of the Assumption, I did a round-up of Six inspiring books to jump-start your inner evangelist. Today I want to return to one page of one of those books, the collection of brief extracts from the addresses and writings of Pope Benedict XVI, God Is Ever New: Meditations on Life, Love, and Freedom. I have just finished using this book as part of my nightly spiritual reading.
Indifference Is Irresponsible...
I can understand why many Americans seem dispirited about world affairs. Things are indeed a mess. What I cannot understand, however, is the electorate’s seeming indifference to the global mess: an indifference that manifests itself in our national failure to demand that our wannabe leaders address the new world disorder seriously rather than through sound bites and snarky slogans...
A Renaissance of Aquinas at 800...
If you were born in 1224, the odds are not in your favor that you’ll have a blow-out 800th birthday celebration. But Thomas Aquinas is the exception to that rule. A recent conference at the University of Notre Dame, “Aquinas at 800: Ad Multos Annos,” brought 580 registered participants from twenty countries to hear more than 150 papers on the work of the great Dominican St. Thomas Aquinas. This was a conference that was a fitting recognition...
St. Daniel, and Some Trolley Problems...
On October 10, Thursday, the Church celebrates St. Daniele Comboni, one of the greatest missionaries in modern history. Comboni was an Italian, the fourth of eight children born to very poor landscaper parents. He was the only one of their children to live into adulthood. When he was a teenager, he was struck by novelized accounts he read of the Jesuit missionaries martyred in Japan in the 1700s...
The Essential Nature of the Church: Communio and Mystery...
Bases Loaded with History: The Catholic Ties Between the Dodgers and Padres...
What is the Catholic Church like in Iran?
Treasure in Heaven: Why My Father Came to Visit Me One Night — Just After He Died...
Motherhood and the Power of Vulnerability...
Do You Hear the Gospel at Mass?
What Does Heaven Cost? A Homily for the 28th Sunday of the Year...
A rich man asks Jesus, Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life? Jesus decides to follow up on the man’s premise, saying to him, You know the commandments: You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you shall not defraud; honor your father and your mother.
Mater Et Magistra, La Suprema, and Disordered Desire...
How ‘Wir sind Papst!’ Became a Headline for the Ages...
Hours after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005, the German journalist Georg Streiter came up with a headline that’s still remembered almost 20 years later. Streiter, the political editor of the Bild newspaper, condensed Germany’s excitement at the election of its first native son in 482 years into three words: “Wir sind Papst!” (“We are pope”).
3 Simple Rules for the Rosary, from Actor David Henrie (‘Wizards of Waverly Place,’ ‘How I Met Your Mother’)...
As Catholics around the world celebrate October, the month of the holy Rosary, actor and director David Henrie recently shared with Our Sunday Visitor how this powerful prayer has impacted his life. Known for his roles in Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” Henrie has been open about the central role that the Rosary plays in his personal and family life...
Why the Príncipi Case Matters...
The Vatican Secretariat of State’s “extraordinary procedure” to reinstate a laicized priest, blocked this week by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, may prove to be the most significant Vatican story of the year. Little is known, as yet, about why sostituto Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra issued an order trying to reinstate a man convicted of child sexual abuse by two interdiocesan tribunals in Argentina. But his decision to do so, and the DDF’s move to publicly void the attempt, raises real questions about the role of Pope Francis, the rule of law, and the exercise of power in the Vatican...
Jesus Does Not Follow the Science...
Patients use Internet medical portals to make appointments, ask questions of medical personnel, and check laboratory results. But do the medical portal masters follow the science? The portal masters now ask: What was your sex assigned at birth? (Me: “I don’t remember.”) What are your preferred pronouns?
States Continue to Report High Levels of Home Schooling After Pandemic Boost, Study Finds...
What We Can Learn from Falling Leaves...
Though I love autumn and the fall of leaves, at the same time something in me rebels. Even as I think, “I don’t want to miss their turning,” part of me just wants it to be over. Somehow, like life itself, autumn in its beauty and drama can be just too much. But maybe I need to learn something from the leaves. Hilaire Belloc often puts to words sentiments I had not realized I was feeling...
‘Go and Fear Nothing’: How Our Lady of Champion’s Message Still Inspires Today...
The owner of the White Sox wasn’t really sorry for his losing team...
When I was a kid, a book called “Love Story” became a huge bestseller, and the movie made from the book, with its two heart throb leads, was a huge hit. Together they made popular the line “Love means never having to say you’re sorry.” People invoked it all the time, the way some people quote Bible verses, as an infallible, unquestionable truth. And it’s absolute rubbish...
Snubs and Surprises: Making Sense of Pope Francis’ Latest Cardinal Picks...
Another 4,000 20th-Century Martyrs in Spain Will Be Beatified in Coming Years, Expert Says...
What Is the Golden Chain of Salvation?
Wisdom and Riches: A Reflection on the 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
What Consolation Does God’s Answer to Job Offer to Those Who Are Suffering?
‘March to Martyrdom’: Regis Martin on St. Ignatius of Antioch’s 7 Letters on Sanctity ...
The Rosary: Pray it Often, Pray it Fervently, Pray it Well...
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