The incredible story of the U.S. Army’s earth-shaking, off-road land trains...

The pastoral costs of the lockdown will, I fear, be enormous. But our Lord can bring good out of any evil...
Phil Lawler
This morning, in an effort to shift my thoughts away from the epidemic and the lockdown, I thought I’d look back a few months, to remember what I was writing before this unhappy subject began to dominate our consciousness. I came across a column I’d written in February, “Want a Liturgical Renewal? Start with Repentance.” Immediately my mind flashed back to an excellent column that I had read just a few minutes earlier...

Till we have faces...
Mark Langley
I miss the human face, don’t you? Isn’t it interesting how that is? Did you think you would ever miss the human face? Who would ever have guessed it? What is about the face that is so important? I suppose it’s the mouth and the cheeks and the chin. It really is difficult to communicate with other people who do not have a mouth or cheeks or a chin. What is it exactly? Obviously, it is difficult to communicate with someone who has no mouth or an obstructed mouth.

Working by hand helps us reconnect with our humanity...
John Cuddeback
We have lost something today, but we can get it back. Our very humanity calls for living and working in our bodies, with natural things, regularly. This means all of us. We have been separated from our own humanity, from our proper homeland, and we are suffering, even if we have never known anything else. I say we can ‘get it back’—not because we ourselves have necessarily had it before, but because it is our birthright. Our own ancestors had it; we need it; and we can still do it, even if differently, and by fits and starts.

Extraordinary evangelization in extraordinary times...
George Weigel
I’d heard about Father Alexander Sherbrooke long before we met in June 2011; Father Sherbrooke had been a mentor for young friends of mine who had worked at St. Patrick’s Church in London as pastoral assistants and catechists. When we finally got to know each other in person, I had that wonderful experience of knowing, almost instantly, that here was someone on whose friendship I could rely as spiritual ballast.

Father McGivney died amid a 19th-century pandemic that may have been caused by a coronavirus...

Is Allah a different God than the biblical God?

How St. Philip Neri discerned God’s will — no scrupulous anxiety, no paralysis...
Deacon Steven Greydanus
In these days between the two great solemnities of the Ascension and Pentecost, the Church holds its breath in anticipation—an anticipation greater than any except Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil. What we look forward to is the great gift of the Holy Spirit and the birthday of the Church as we know it. The sacraments, the priesthood, the apostolic succession of bishops, the papacy, the magisterial teaching authority, the preservation of sacred tradition — all this depends on the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Record numbers leave Church in Munich archdiocese...

5 images of the Holy Spirit from Scripture...

Discerning a vocation: What not to do...

What makes the ‘Star Wars’ theme so epic? A technical breakdown...

The 7 best portable grills you can buy...

Love Lifted Me: A homily for the Ascension of the Lord...

After Minnesota bishops’ planned defiance of Mass restrictions, governor eases rules...

The strange account of the day “angels” saved British troops during World War I...
John Burger
Nations and their armies have often gone to war believing “God is on our side.” In a little-known incident at the outset of World War I, that sentiment seemed to have been visibly affirmed for a number of British soldiers. In early August 1914, soon after tensions on multiple fronts and levels erupted into war, Great Britain dispatched the British Expeditionary Force

The Lord of the Flies and the Lord of All...
Angelo Stagnaro
Rutger Bregman’s excellent article The Real Lord of the Flies: What Happened When Six Boys Were Shipwrecked for 15 Months was published in London’s The Guardian a few days ago. The article explored the real-life case of a group of schoolboys who were marooned on a deserted island in 1965. Fortunately, life doesn’t always imitate art as the real case of the marooned boys turns out well and not all like British author William Golding’s magnificent 1954 bestseller, The Lord of the Flies.

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