Take a lesson from the early Christians: It is necessary for us to undergo many hardships to enter the Kingdom of God...
Msgr. Charles Pope
The first reading from Sunday Mass this week (5th Sunday of Easter) is very Catholic, and it’s too informative to just pass by. It presents a Church as rather highly organized and possessed of some the structures we know today in full form. Granted, some of these structures are in seminal (seed) form, but the are there. One can detect qualities of the original kerygma that are at variance with what some modern thinkers declare should be the methodology of the Church...

Do not underestimate a person’s need for spiritual healing when proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ...
Marlon De La Torre
The sincerity of his eyes offered a striking glimpse into the pain he had endured as a child. Left with spiritual scars and wounds that can only be described as demoralizing to any child who experiences a life of abuse regardless of the matter and form, there was still much left to address after I first met this particular gentleman...

Roe v. Wade: No Decision Today in Dobbs Abortion Case...

7 things you should know about St. Titus Brandsma...
Kathy Schiffer
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...
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...

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...

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