7 More Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know...
‘Sanctified Sound’: The Return of Bell-Tower Bells Ringing at Eucharistic Consecration...
Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound in many churches. Yet another centuries-old practice has remained in some places and has returned in others: ringing the bells in the church’s bell tower at the Consecration. At St. Peter Catholic Church in Volo, Illinois, shortly after its unstable bell tower was restored in 2018, the ringing tradition was revived...
Henri de Lubac: Pilgrim of Hope, Witness to Jesus Christ...
France’s St. Joan Valois, NHL Star Alex Ovechkin’s (Beautiful) Chaos on the Ice, and the News...
French royal history is terrifically complex, and for me it’s difficult to keep straight. This is mostly because every important king in French history, good or bad, seems to be named Louis. I realize that you and I are part of a church in which almost exactly 20% of the popes have been named John, Gregory, or Benedict. But still, I find those guys much easier to track than all the various Louises who have either honored or disgraced France.
Our Lady of the Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville, New York, Offers Solace, Courage, and Inspiration [National Review Paywall]...
‘When shall I begin to give myself entirely to Him, who has given Himself unreservedly to me?” New York may not be your idea of a hotbed of holiness. But the prayer quoted above comes from Father Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary who risked his life for love of God and neighbor — a neighbor who was nowhere near his native France and who tried to kill him. But for Jogues that wasn’t enough of a sacrifice...
Revealed: What China’s DeepSeek AI Says (and Won’t Say) About Christianity...
DeepSeek-R1, China’s new artificial-intelligence chatbot, has been making waves. Last week, it surpassed OpenAI’s ChatGPT as the most downloaded smartphone app, rattled Wall Street by sparking a massive sell-off of AI-related stocks, and raised eyebrows over its strict self-censorship policies. Like other large-language models (LLMs), DeepSeek-R1 can answer general knowledge questions, generate text, and solve complex math problems...
Pope Francis Announces Plan to Write Papal Document on Theme of Children...
Pope Francis received a long round of applause at a Vatican summit on Monday after announcing he intends to make children the theme of a new papal document. Titled “Love Them and Protect Them,” the Feb. 3–4 summit with public- and private-sector leaders from around the world includes panels on the child’s right to resources, to education, to food and health care, to family, to free time, and to live free from violence...
Dreamt of learning Latin? Here’s how you’ll finally do it...
Faith, Family, Football: The Catholic Legacy of Soccer Legend Tommy Burns...
Glasgow, Scotland, is a city famous for many things, but it’s also infamous for a sectarianism that has marred its history for many decades. Nowhere is this more evident than in the city’s footballing divide — those of a Protestant background traditionally support Rangers, while Catholics align with their bitter rivals, Celtic. Yet, from this intense soccer rivalry, something even more surprising has emerged.
There’s more to the March for Life than politics...
It was a headline guaranteed to make the typical New York Times reader do a double take, if not gasp in shock. That headline proclaimed, “Undocumented Women Ask: Will My Unborn Child Be a Citizen?” Spot the heretical language? The key was that these “unborn children” were part of a designated victim group at the heart of Times coverage of President Donald Trump’s drive to increase the deportation of illegal immigrants, especially those with criminal records...
How Don Bosco used reason, religion and kindness to turn students into saints...
A Call to Prayer in the Wake of Midair Collision in DC...
The power of reading aloud in the home is an astounding gift we can rediscover...
Is it really worth the effort to do this as opposed to watching a film together? I do not question the merits of a good movie-watching. I do suggest that there is something unique, prior, and indeed irreplaceable in shared listening. Consider again the image with which I opened: the moment the last sentence is read, or heard. My own experience of this has been uniform and clear though hard to capture in words...
Manners, Methods and Greatness...
Browsing Footprints in Time, the memoirs of Winston Churchill’s longtime private secretary, John Colville, I found a tale from 80 years ago with a lesson for American public life today. The idiosyncrasies of the British government being what they were in 1945, Colville, who had served Churchill as a private secretary throughout the Second World War, became one of Clement Attlee’s private secretaries when the Labor Party leader displaced Churchill as prime minister...
What If Depression and Anxiety Are the Only Logical Response to a World Without God?
What’s wrong with young people today? The mental health crisis is skyrocketing—depression, anxiety, confusion about identity. But maybe, just maybe, nothing’s wrong with them at all. Maybe they’re just the canary in the coal mine, revealing something toxic in our entire culture. Could it be that young people are simply more sensitive to the emptiness of a worldview stripped of God, objective truth, and the transcendent? What if the real problem is a spiritual one? On this episode of The Chris Stefanick Show, I sit down with one of my absolute favorite speakers, Monsignor James Shea...
Do You Feel Like an Atheist?
Emma Camp said, “I only believe in God about 30 percent of the time on a good day.” The historian Tom Holland put the point this way, “Sometimes I can feel—I can believe—that the Spirit is real. I can believe that the story of the Passion and the Resurrection is so strange that it is not a cultural accident, that it is expressive of something that is true. And there are other times when I think...
Are churches sanctuaries in the law? Here’s an explainer from The Pillar...
Few seem to have noticed this recent decision, but it’s an epic victory in the pro-life cause...
A Roe v. Wade for Latin America was averted and the right to life upheld. This is what took place late last month in the ruling of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) in Beatriz vs. El Salvador. But headlines obscured this victory for life and portrayed the ruling as a milestone in the quest for abortion rights in Latin America and around the world. Why was Beatriz a victory for life?
A Tale of Fire, Wind, and Healing: The Fascinating Legacy of St. Blaise...
The Feast of St. Blaise is one of the most widespread pieces of popular saintly devotion to survive in contemporary liturgy. From small suburban parishes to basilicas, the practice of blessing throats with a pair of crossed candles bound with a red ribbon remains much as it was 400 years ago. Although the candles are rarely lit today, the priest or deacon places them upon each parishioner’s throat and prays, “Through the intercession of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr, may God deliver you from every disease of the throat and from every other illness.”
The Catholic Church’s Copes of Many Colors...
The Feast of the Presentation is celebrated on Feb. 2, 40 days after Christmas, even when it falls on a Sunday, as it does this year. And the feast has an unusual sartorial twist — at the beginning of Mass, you may see the priest wearing a cope. The cope is a cape-like vestment that priests and deacons can wear...
A Choral Bridge: Serbian Orthodox Choir Sings With Sistine Chapel Choir in Rome...
Catholics, Hippocrates, and reforming American medicine...
Before the Doorbell Rings: Inside Mormon Missionary Training...
Catholic Priest at Crash Site of Deadly Midair Collision: ‘It Was My Duty’ to Be There...
Vatican Office Clarifies Rules for Transferred Holy Days of Obligation...
Making Christianity Weird Again...
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