Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on 3 wounds (and 3 myths) that explain what’s happening today...

Catholics respond after Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87...

This NYMag article, published two months ago, considers the possible implications of an election-season Ruth Bader Ginsburg death...

St. Thérèse statue beheaded, church robbed and vandalized at Catholic parish in Utah...

New Italian Missal introduces new formula of consecration...
Fr. Raymond de Souza
With the approval of the new Italian translation of the Roman Missal third edition (2002), consider the following: A Catholic anywhere in North America — from Alaska to Zacatecas — will hear the same consecratory formula for the chalice at Mass, whether attending Mass in English, French, Spanish or the original Latin. The same would be true if he went to Mass in Spanish in Argentina or in French in Zaire.

Jared Staudt’s new book offers theological foundations for rebuilding Catholic culture...

Why Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals...

Two quirks haunt human nature — the desire for paradise, and the demands of paranoia...

In second known instance, invalidly baptized Oklahoma priest baptized and ‘re-ordained’...

We should remember our dead daily — for memory is a promise, and a preparation, for something yet to come...
John Cuddeback
Some time ago it really struck me when reading Wendell Berry’s fiction how he portrayed growing old, and the deepening connection one feels to those who have gone before you. Now years later his sentiments are much more real to me. I find myself thinking about death, or rather I should say thinking about the dead, more than I did before. There is a great Christian practice of remembering our dead in prayer...

Will Catholics go back to Mass on their bishops’ orders?
Phil Lawler
Starting this coming Sunday, it will be a serious sin for a Catholic in the Milwaukee archdiocese to miss Sunday Mass without a serious reason. Last week it was OK. It’s still OK in most other American dioceses and archdioceses. Can we expect ordinary Catholics to understand this situation? Can we expect them to come back to Sunday Mass, after a six-month hiatus? Having used their authority to stop lay Catholics from attending Mass...

Yet another book about who will follow Pope Francis examines a Church in transition...
Clemente Lisi
Who will be the next pope? That seems to be the preoccupation these days among some segment of Catholics. It is, at least, among religious publishers. While 83-year-old Pope Francis is in good health, that hasn’t stopped speculation over who will come next. After all, he is 83. Earlier this summer, a book by Edward Pentin entitled The Next Pope: The Leading Cardinal Candidates was released in July to much fanfare...

Like abortion today, slavery in the 16th century was rationalized by many Catholics. But Bartolomé de las Casas knew better...

Every Catholic needs to know about this little-known Eucharistic doctrine...
Fr. John Cush
This summer, I got to celebrate Holy Mass in the Brooklyn parish where I stay when I’m home from my assignment as the academic dean of the Pontifical North American College in Rome. It is always a joy to offer Mass for a parish community. For me, it is a homecoming. This parish is a multi-ethnic one in my diocese with a pastor born in Pakistan, an Urdu Mass, growing Haitian and Hispanic communities, and many other people...

Our Lady of Sorrows, mother of the Man Of Sorrows...
Donal Foley
September is the month traditionally dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows, and the feast day for this actually falls on September 15, the day after the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Clearly, it is very appropriate that these two feasts, representing the sorrows of Christ and our Lady, should be celebrated so close together, given that the Blessed Virgin was the one who stood so steadfastly at the foot of the cross on Calvary during the awful sufferings of her Son.

Catholics say new religious ed plan teaches error, while Australian diocese defends curriculum...

Why did Jesus appear? Jesus appeared to destroy the works of the devil...
Marlon De La Torre
There is an important tenet that tends to bind a community together and that is the deliberate exercise of respect and dignity toward your fellow man. Intimately bound by these attributes of faith, it is reasonable for any human being to see an inherit value and worth of their fellow brother and sister in the name of Jesus Christ. St. John XXIII spoke of this value and worth emphasizing the importance of returning to a sense of dignity;

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