Will this year’s March for Life be the last?
This year may be the last January March for Life. If you’ve never been to the March for Life, it’s a sight to behold. High-school and college students descend on the nation’s capital. There’s always a big showing from North Dakota thanks to the University of Mary in Bismarck — including this year. They actually returned to lead the march one year after an epic 24-hour standstill in buses caught in a blizzard on the way home from the march in 2016...
‘Savage wolves’: Patriarch of Alexandria denounces actions of Russian Orthodox Church in Africa...
Biblical basics about Mother Mary — A homily for the Second Sunday of the Year...
There was a wedding at Cana in Galilee and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. A fascinating thing about these opening verses is that Mary almost seems to dominate the scene; the presence of Jesus is mentioned only secondarily. St. Thomas Aquinas notes that at Cana, Mary acts as the “go-between” in arranging a mystical marriage
Rare 19th-century film of Pope Leo XIII, remastered and colorized...
Sister Jeannine Gramick has a 50-year record of dissent from Catholic beliefs on homosexuality, women’s ordination and abortion...
When I first heard that Pope Francis had written a letter to Loretto Sister Jeannine Gramick praising her 50 years of ministry, I immediately thought it had to be a case of mistaken identity. Surely the Pope or his staff had confused her with any one of the thousands of Catholic sisters who have toiled for a half-century to teach and model the truths of the Catholic faith and who deserve such a letter...
Jesus has opened up the pathway of supreme humility...
Jesus Christ has opened up the pathway to freedom and this pathway is the pathway of supreme humility. It is a trail blazed by the Word made flesh and a journey that leads to the Burning Bush where the limitlessness of God sets the limits of man aflame with love. Love alone knows how to find this trail and faith, unshod and thus vulnerable...
Marching into the fray, a culture of evangelization, and a process story...
Next week is the March for Life here in Washington. It’s the first time the event will take place in person since the beginning of 2020. Last year, the march moved online at the last minute, in the wake of the Capitol riots on Jan. 6. This week, the event’s organizers unveiled a speaker list markedly less political than in previous years...
Diplomacy in the Church, in light of the Gospel...
In an important sense, formal Vatican diplomacy is an historical artifact arising from the immense worldly influence enjoyed by the popes and bishops in a largely Catholic society, in which the pope governed the Papal States and bishops and religious orders throughout Europe controlled extensive territorial holdings...
‘Failure to launch’ — the reluctance of males to become men — is a far bigger problem than you realize...
It’s called “Failure to Launch,” and its implications are far worse than you might realize. Back in the 1980s, the Toys R Us company aired a television commercial with the tagline, “I don’t want to grow up. I’m a Toys R Us kid.” Though Toys R Us has since declared bankruptcy, its marketing message has nevertheless found a sizeable audience of American men in their twenties...
A McCarthy ton lifts the Catholic cricket team in Sydney, Australia...
Here’s what 260 mph on the Autobahn in a Bugatti Chiron looks like in real time...
How ingenious ranchers used barbed-wire fences (and pop and whiskey bottles) to make phone calls...
Why this new-stuff-in-the-Spirit synod rhetoric, as seen in the USCCB tweet, is so damaging...
MLK, the Law and Human Rights...
It has always struck me how close Martin Luther King Day is to the day the Supreme Court affirmed we could legally deny unborn children the most fundamental civil right of all: the right to live and not be killed. Every year, when I talk with my 10th-grade religious-education students at this time (MLK Day and the anniversary of Roe v...
This Church-approved 1980 Marian apparition echoes Our Lady of Fatima...
The year is 1980. The town is Cuapa, near the middle of Nicaragua — 59 straight miles northeast of the capital of Managua and 96 miles via highways and roads. The date is April 15. While carrying out his work as a simple church sacristan in what was called the “old chapel,” Bernardo Martinez sees a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary producing a supernatural light — heaven’s way to announce he would soon see the Blessed Mother...
Friendship between cardinal and politician cemented comeback of ‘Bologna school’...
When Italy recently celebrated a state funeral for David Sassoli, the President of the European Parliament who died unexpectedly from Legionnaire’s disease on Jan. 11, the Mass was held in Rome’s Basilica of St. Mary of the Angels and attended by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, Prime Minister Mario Draghi, European President Ursula von der Leyen...
Cardinal Sarah is right: ‘The silence of everyday life is an indispensable condition for living with others’...
There is a distinctive drama that perpetually exists between God and man. The nature of this drama involves whether man in good faith engages the virtue of silence to listen to God instead of the choice to listen and engage the noise of the world; an act of despair the devil would prefer you and I to entertain. If a person is cognizant of the potential spiritual danger that exists in shunning the gift of silence...
Pope Francis: ‘The Holy Spirit Reforms the Church Through the Saints’...
Video: How pencils are made...
Noelle Mering: Respond to Wokeness by connecting with family and God...
Finding an intercessor in Michael Kniffin...
‘Our Dear Friend and Sister Has Gone to Meet Her Lord’ — Alice Von Hildebrand Dies at 98...
Newark’s Cardinal Tobin: Refusing to deal with ‘complexity’ in the Church is a form of heresy ...
Do rocks believe in God? And if they don’t, what are we actually saying about atheism?
Some time ago, I saw an atheist list things that exasperate him, one of which is when his fellow atheists say that rocks are atheists. A prominent atheist, exhibiting no sympathy at all, insisted in response that, yes, indeed, “Rocks are atheist.” Usually, this happens when someone defines atheism as “the lack or absence of belief” in God and then allows the definition to apply to anything that “lacks belief in God”—even if it’s a rock...
Mary, the saints and the gravity of God...
It is not often that physics gets the spotlight in a homily, but I pay special attention when it does, not because I care too much if the homilist gets the physics right (they usually do), but because I am always looking for connections between the subject I teach in school and spirituality. Recently, Father Francis Mary of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal included a bit of Newtonian gravitation in a homily about Our Lady and her humility...
In 1908, Father Leo Heinrichs was murdered at the Communion rail in Denver...
Why did Pope Francis visit a record store in Rome?
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