Pope Francis was right about pets and kids...

What is Christian joy, and how can it be yours?
Fr. Victor Feltes
A subtle theme threads throughout this Sunday’s readings: the theme of joy. When the Jews return to Jerusalem from the Babylonian Exile their leaders read the Old Covenant to them. And the crowd weeps as the scrolls are read because they realize they have not been keeping God’s laws. But Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest...

As Russian Troop Buildup Continues, Pope Sets Jan. 26 as Day of Prayer for Peace in Ukraine...

The Real Presence and the presence of reality...
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
In the wee hours when the mind is awake and pondering I kept thinking of all the artificiality, lying, deception, fakery and illusion in our world. The modern world seems increasingly to be a flimsy stage set, a simulacrum of reality, a plastic Disneyworld of fairy tale fakery and lies. We are alienated from reality not by suffering so much as by the sweetness of our artificial affluence...

March for Life 2022: ‘A Great Witness to the Sanctity of Human Life’...

This year’s March for Life, the 49th, will be different...
George Weigel
The annual March for Life in Washington began in 1974 — and it’s hard to think of a more admirable or consistent public witness to the dignity of the human person being given for so many years by so many people of all races, religions, and social classes. The March has taken place in fair weather and foul. Senior public officials have addressed it; others have assiduously (or contemptuously) ignored it...

Activist Group Projects Pro-Choice Messages on Washington Basilica on Eve of March for Life...

Answering the call: When a fire truck becomes a ‘friar truck’...
Joseph Pronechen
Sound the alarm, and make way for the “Friar Truck” and its first official call: January’s “Bible Marathon” in St. Martinville, Louisiana. After this debut, it will continue carrying on its official duty — proclaiming the word of God from its eye-catching, antique mobile pulpit. No one will be able to miss the message as the Friar Truck makes its rounds...

My dad, Bruce Thomas Clark, and the communion of saints...
John Clark
On Jan. 10, my father died in the arms of the Catholic Church — embraced by Confession, Holy Communion, Anointing of the Sick and the Apostolic Pardon. The fact that my father received such graces has been a powerful and hopeful consolation. It has also helped me understand the Communion of Saints in a new and glorious way. My father grew up Protestant but converted in his early twenties...

Here’s a Q&A to help make sense of what’s been alleged about Benedict XVI and Munich...

America’s favorite hot sauces, ranked and mapped for all 50 states...

The need for two pockets...

Pope’s Wednesday Audience: ‘God Is Not Afraid of Our Sins’...

The Top 10 most luxurious trains in the world...

Even Peter nods...
Regis Martin
Soon after ascending to the Chair of St. Peter in 2005, Pope Benedict XVI was driven across town in order to take possession of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the mother of all churches. Indeed, the very first Christian basilica built in Rome and the oldest of all the churches in Christendom, it is the place where, until 1870...

Shock Gallup poll: Only 41% of U.S. conservatives and 45% of churchgoers say it’s ‘very important’ that couples with children together legally marry...

Cardinal Parolin and Deputy Vatican Secretary of State Test Positive for COVID-19...
Edward Pentin
Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra have tested positive for COVID-19, the Holy See press office confirmed on Tuesday. Parolin, the Vatican Secretary of State, has “very mild” symptoms, while his Venezuelan substitute, Peña Parra, is asymptomatic, Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni told journalists on Jan...

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