War and peace, Putin’s face, and a question of manners...
Pope Francis met yesterday with Bishop Stephen Chow of Hong Kong. That meeting apparently came after a session for Chow with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Parolin. We don’t know why Chow was in Rome, or what they discussed at the meeting, but given the situation in Hong Kong right now, with COVID cases and mortality rates at an all time high...
The Pope’s consecration of Russia and Ukraine is a supreme act of trust in Our Lady...
The Holy Father’s decision to consecrate Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on March 25, the Solemnity of the Annunciation, is linked to the apparitions at Fatima. On the same day at the shrine in Portugal, papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski will make the same act of consecration in the name of Pope Francis...
Who was Jesus’ grandfather — Jacob or Heli?
Matthew opens his Gospel with a genealogy stretching from Abraham down to Jesus. Luke also gives a genealogy, except his stretches from Jesus back to Adam, the original “son of God.” Both genealogies have fascinating aspects that would require considerable discussion, but here we’re interested in a specific question: Who was Jesus’ grandfather...
Noncombatant immunity and the death of innocents...
Why are so many Anglican bishops becoming Catholic?
Six months ago, Jonathan Goodall lay down his ministry as the Anglican bishop of Ebbsfleet, England, in order to enter into the Catholic Church. This past Saturday, now-Father Goodall was ordained to the Catholic priesthood in Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Vincent Nichols — the culmination of a journey from Protestantism to the Catholic Church taken recently by a number of former Anglican bishops...
Workers discover 700-year-old lead coffin beneath Notre Dame Cathedral...
The oratorio: Lenten music to edify (and perhaps entertain)...
Remember, the devil wants you to lose your moral integrity...
Custody of your desires is a phrase not often heard when speaking on the value of moral integrity. In the book of Sirach, we encounter the practice of moral integrity where the exercise of true wisdom involves the custody of unrighteous anger which cannot be justified and will lead man to ruin. Moral integrity with respect to the union of the person with God is an act of faith that involves honest and clear intentions; let what you say be simply yes or no...
Is gas really cheaper at Costco?
Car owners beware: Fuel tank drilling is the hot new auto-theft trend sweeping the nation...
What has Pope Francis changed about Mass intentions? A CNA Explainer...
What you need to know about angels and demons...
I have been doing a project for the St. Michael Center for Spiritual Renewal. In this case it was to make two videos on Angels and Demons. The videos needed to be close to thirty minutes, and thus I had to leave a lot of material out. However, five years ago I presented three lectures of 90 minutes each that permitted me to expand and offer more information...
Mother knows best: ‘Turning Red,’ ‘Encanto,’ and Disney/Pixar’s new overbearing moms...
A decade or more ago, if the protagonist of an animated film had a disapproving, overbearing, or blinkered parental figure with overly restrictive ideas about their offspring’s life, that parent was usually the father. Domineering dads were a notable trope of the 1990s Disney renaissance, from King Triton in The Little Mermaid to Tarzan’s grumpy ape father Kerchak...
When was Jesus crucified? The day of the week and Passover...
‘We Are Grateful’: Ukrainian Catholic Leader Welcomes Consecration to Mary’s Immaculate Heart...
Budapest case asks: Is the Vatican’s money problem fraud, or incompetence?
Although it’s a little difficult to remember right now, with the near-exclusive global focus on Putin’s war in Ukraine, the Vatican still has its own battle royale raging in the form of its “Trial of the Century.” The conflict pits 10 criminal defendants – including, for the first time, a cardinal – against prosecutors acting in the name of the pope...
19th-century Russian thinker Vladimir Solovyov explains how war undermines Christian culture...
Much commentary has focused on Vladimir’s Putin’s sponsorship of the Russian Orthodox Church, which extends even to the point of making the Church an arm of the State (a constant temptation in Russian history). It is true that a massive building project throughout Russia has constructed thousands of Orthodox churches, making some see Putin as some kind of new Constantine...
Odesa's 1,500 miles of maze-like catacombs could be bad news for Russian invaders...
Ears to Hear: The Catholic podcast revolution continues to advance...
The latest research from Edison Research and Triton Digital and its 2021 edition of “The Infinite Dial,” America’s longest-running study of consumer media habits, indicates that the endless upward trajectory of podcast-listening received a significant boost from the pandemic. How this media landscape is shifting can be seen in how people consume news...
Watch fire ants use a pile of gravel to pave over some double-sided tape...
On St. Patrick’s Day, my thoughts turn to the faith of my Irish mother...
“Four Spaniards and a saint” — celebrating like it’s 1622...
Last Saturday the Church marked the 400th anniversary of the joint canonization of four of the most influential figures not just in the counter-reformation but in all of Church history — Sts. Teresa of Ávila, Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier and Philip Neri — together with the one whom, at the time, King Philip IV tried to make the “headliner...
What causes war? The Apostle James tells us: “You desire and do not have, so you kill. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and wage war”...
In today’s news we learn that Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has presented a Marian icon to the director of Russia’s National Guard, hoping this will bring about a quick victory in the war against Ukraine. During the presentation ceremony, the National Guard commander referred to the Ukrainians as “Nazis”, asserting that the war is taking longer than it should because the Ukrainians are “hiding behind civilians...
We need to help the Ukrainian people more than we are. We also need to help the unborn in America more than we are...
“Being the leader of the world means being the leader of peace.” I know I’m not alone in finding Ukrainian president Zelensky’s address to Congress today haunting. The images he showed of body bags and mass graves and children dying are not from history, but the past three weeks. When he talked about peace and life and death...
“Rising stars of the hierarchy,” say clericalists, “get Chicago.” But shepherds get Crookston...
Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill Meet by Video Call to Discuss War in Ukraine...
Is this viral video of the Blessed Sacrament traveling through Kyiv fact or fiction?
They pray “peace, peace” when there is no peace...
It was the usual people doing the usual thing and intoning the usual clichés, and as usual avoiding saying anything too specific. Just before Russia invaded Ukraine, mainstream religious leaders joined in a “Faith Vigil for Peace in Ukraine.” The vigil was conducted on Zoom and broadcast on Facebook. Organized by official Quaker and Episcopal agencies...
Archbishop Viganò and Colonel Grace-Groundling-Marchpole...
Pope Francis is going to consecrate Russia and Ukraine. So what does that mean, exactly?
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