God will not just raise you from the dead someday — He will transform you in the body you have...
‘Veritatis Splendor’ priests expected to leave Tyler diocese...
The Miraculous Medal Is Ireland’s Hope, and Ours...
A story out of Ireland two months ago got little attention here across the pond, but it offers a rare ray of hope in the culture war. As The Guardian explained, back in March, on the International Day of Women, the Irish voted on a proposed referendum that would have changed language in the constitution, redefining the family...
‘Wildcat’ lacks O’Connor’s oddness, but brims with passion...
Ethan Hawke’s Wildcat opens, very nearly, with a familiar scenario: a dispiriting encounter between a young artist with an exacting creative vision and a conventional corporate gatekeeper with a checklist approach to what sells. The scene depicts a real-life exchange between 24-year-old Mary Flannery O’Connor (played by Maya Hawke, the director’s daughter) and her editor at Holt Rinehart regarding her unfinished novel Wise Blood...
No, the Resurrection is not a wonderful symbol of hope...
Last Epiphany, my wife and I had our annual debate over whether to take down the Christmas tree. She has a weird dislike of finding pine needles on the floor. I don’t understand it. She invokes the tradition of Christmas lasting through Epiphany. I argue that grace overflows the traditional rules, and that keeping up the Christmas tree beautifully symbolizes that truth...
The story behind the hidden persecution of Christians in Nicaragua...
If 2+2=4, Then God Exists...
Aristotle, Anselm, Aquinas, Liebniz, and William Lane Craig provide famous reasons to believe that God exists. Less well known is a way proposed by the African intellectual Augustine. In his fantastic book Five Proofs of the Existence of God, Edward Feser explains this argument at length. Inspired by Augustine, let’s begin with the reality that 2+2=4.
On the Paradoxical Connection Between Love, Law and Joy...
In the Sunday Gospel, Jesus cuts right through the modern Western tendency to place love in opposition with law, and law in opposition with joy. Jesus joins all three concepts and summons us to a new attitude. Note how the Lord joins the three concepts of love, law, and joy. This is precisely the opposite of what Western culture does. The best that Western culture will admit of law is that it is a necessary evil...
Pope’s Sunday Regina Coeli: Jesus ‘Wants Your Good and He Wants You to Share in His’...
The AP offers an outsider's view of the Catholic Church...
This Sunday, On the Way to the Cross, Jesus Shared ‘God’s Innermost Secret’...
On the night before he died, Jesus was thinking about our joy, not his pain — and he shared a secret that we only now may be ready to understand. The Church has been looking back on that night for weeks now, because what Jesus said in his Farewell Discourse on Holy Thursday reveals the deepest meaning of what he wants us to do now, on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, Year B.
Why does God try to kill Moses in Exodus 4?
Chapter 4 of the Book of Exodus contains one of the strangest passages in all of Sacred Scripture. Verses 18-26 describe how Moses, living in exile in the land of Midian, goes to his father-in-law Jethro to request permission to return to his own people back in Egypt. Jethro consents, and so Moses sets off together with his wife, Zipporah, and their sons.
Opinion: Catholics Should Not Be Organ Donors When ‘Brain Death’ Is the Standard...
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: Peace in the Holy Land Is Built on Dialogue, Action...
Priest Shot Dead in South Africa; Catholic Bishops There Decry ‘Pandemic’ of Murder...
Thank You, Bill Maher, But Your Critique of Hollywood’s Depravity Didn’t Go Far Enough...
Hitting the Bricks, 750th Anniversary of Lyons II, and the News...
If the reference seems a bit obscure, I apologize. But Lyons II, which opened 750 years ago today, was attended by about 500 bishops, almost 100 abbots, and emissaries from governments and hierarchies across Eastern and Western Europe. It’s an important one, at which the Council Father resolved that the Church...
Strange Phenomena and Spiritual Warfare: A Catholic Convert’s Testimony...
The Communion Conundrum...
The Easter season provides an opportunity to celebrate the life and death of Jesus Christ. His sacrifice on the Cross brought light to the world conquering sin and death, his destruction of the works of the Devil, and the opening of the gates of heaven...
As an Underwater Graveyard, the Great Lakes Have Claimed Close to 10,000 Ships...
Looking Ahead to the Ascension...
Jesus Is Always Your Friend...
At the Last Supper, Jesus told his apostles, “I have called you friends ...” He calls them friends and he does not lie; what Jesus speaks is true. And then he tells them, “You are my friends if you do what I command you.” But what if we, or they, do not do what Christ commands? Does the Lord remain a friend towards us even when we are not being a friend towards him?
Pope Francis Appoints Msgr. John McDermott as New Bishop of Burlington, Vermont...
A Paradigm Shift from Veritatis Splendor to Amoris Laetitia?
Ethan Hawke didn’t make ‘Wildcat’ to be a blockbuster. He made it to be good art. And he succeeded...
I am convinced the primary reason Flannery O’Connor was so serious about her Catholic faith is that it was the one place where she experienced being seen and understood and loved; it was the one place in which she felt that she fit—that she belonged, because at the center of Catholicism is a crucified misfit...
Have you ever heard of this Navy tradition? Babies are baptized in the ship’s bell...
After years of snubs and sharp criticisms from Rome, parish priests will welcome the change of tone in the Pope’s new letter...
Pope Francis has addressed a warm and affectionate letter to parish priests throughout the Church. The letter, written on the occasion of a meeting of parish priests in Rome as part of the synodal process, attempts three things — to repair the damage done by the exclusion of parish priests from the synodal assembly last October...
Nagasaki’s Continuous Martyrdom: From the Hidden Church to the Atomic Bomb...
High above the city of Nagasaki, I walk a Way of the Cross in the steps of St. Maximilian Kolbe, who founded a monastery here in 1931. The lush mountainous area is marked by a grotto reminiscent of Lourdes, built by the Polish Franciscan saint to honor the Blessed Mother and sanctify the place where he lived for five years, until called back to Poland.
What changed when parents gave their 10-year-old her first iPad?
I continue to work my way through the much-discussed book “The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness” by Jonathan Haidt. It’s slow work, in part because I am taking lots of notes. I don’t know about you folks, but I am a slow, careful reader when dealing with subjects that I believe are unusually important.
The Return of the Canonized Popes...
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