The Dark Night of the Soul Is Not What You Think...
Mine on the Moon...
You’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post, and today’s the feast of St. Cyprian and Pope St. Cornelius, martyrs both, and saints of mercy. It was the third century. In the eyes of the emperor, Decius, Rome was floundering, the empire’s best days were behind it. Decius believed the empire was fracturing, that respect for Rome’s culture, her glory, and her emperor were fading. He aimed to restore Rome to its former greatness, and cement himself as the leader of a new golden age.
Prudent Stewards: A Reflection on the Upcoming 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
The steward in today’s Gospel confronts the reality that he can’t go on living the way he has been. He is under judgment. He must give account for what he has done. The exploiters of the poor in today’s First Reading are also about to be pulled down, to be thrust from their stations (see Isaiah 22:19). Servants of mammon, or money, they’re so in love with wealth that they reduce the poor to objects; they despise the new moons and sabbaths—the observances and holy days of God (see Leviticus 23:24; Exodus 20:8).
Activist Priest Resigns Over New Syro-Malabar Liturgy...
A priest known for his social activism resigned as the vicar of a parish in India’s Ernakulam-Angamaly archeparchy Sunday after he was asked to celebrate the Syro-Malabar Church’s new uniform Eucharistic liturgy. Fr. Augustine Vattoly, the parish vicar of St. Augustine Church, Kadamakkudy, in Kerala state, announced his resignation Sept. 14 in an open letter to Archbishop Joseph Pamplany, the archiepiscopal vicar of Ernakulam-Angamaly.
How This Catholic School Event 67 Years Ago Changed Every School in America...
‘No One Can Silence Their Voice’: Pope Leo XIV Honors Modern Martyrs at Ecumenical Service...
Pope Leo XIV Marks 70th Birthday at Sunday Angelus: ‘I Give Thanks to the Lord and to My Parents’...
Pope Leo hints at Lampedusa visit in strong echo of Francis on migrants and refugees...
A Note on Noticing the Glory...
Colorado has dozens of ski resorts. The official count is 41. Vail and Aspen, Telluride, and Steamboat Springs get the lion’s share of attention. But little ski gems like Wolf Creek and Crested Butte abound. Our family favorite, in the 18 years we lived in Denver, was Arapahoe Basin. Tucked into the Continental Divide just 65 miles from our home, “A-Basin” was an easy drive and a laid-back local magnet. It offered a few beginner runs, but the resort was, and is, short on frills and has little patience with posers.
Leadership in the Wake of Tragedy: Reflection on the Assassination of Charlie Kirk...
Charlie Kirk Is Dead. Just Stop Everything and Pray...
How the legendary Motown was inspired by a Ford assembly line and magnified by the Beatles...
In the Midst of Political Violence, Lift High the Cross...
After sobering news about political violence in America, this Sunday, Sept. 14, is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross. Just as it did after Sept. 11, 2001, the Church offers the hard hope of the cross after tragedy. It is crucial in times like this to understand the glory of the cross — a glory which never takes away sadness, but answers pain with love. Here are five takeaways drawn from Sunday Readings columns at this site and the Extraordinary Story podcast.
A Nightly Ritual for Married and Unmarried...
What Aquinas writes about dreams is something we have all observed, and it calls for closer consideration: “those things which have occupied a man’s thoughts and affections while awake recur to his imagination while asleep.” This implies that our nighttime dreams are not wholly beyond our sway. Indeed, it grounds a very practical approach to improving our dreams. The point here is not to attempt what is impossible...
ESPN’s Favorite College Football Game-Day Traditions...
Could Leo take a ‘Vatican II’ approach to Traditionis custodes?
Supporters of the extraordinary form of the liturgy have welcomed the announcement that the traditional Latin Mass will be celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica as part of an annual traditionalist pilgrimage to Rome in October. The Mass, expected to be celebrated according to the 1962 Missal, will be the first time that rubric is used in St. Peter’s and in connection with the annual event since 2021...
Tim Kaine Comments on Rights and Religion: Senator Needs Remedial Civics...
Unconditional Alliance: Do Not Be Too Proud to Call Upon Our Savior’s Constant Help...
Pope Leo gives first exclusive interview to Crux correspondent for new bio...
Pope Leo XIV proclaims Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati Saints...
What Kind of God Demands Animal Sacrifices?
Why Do Hammerhead Sharks Have A Hammerhead?
Life After Death: Learning from Socrates...
King Charles III Becomes First Monarch to Visit St. John Henry Newman’s Birmingham Oratory...
5 Bible Passages That Point to Purgatory...
Prayer Helps Us Avoid Stupidities...
Where Do You Fall on ESPN’s Sports Misery Index?
Pope Meets Israeli President Isaac Herzog at Vatican, Discusses ‘Tragic’ Situation in Gaza...
The risk of forgiveness is that you will no longer be a slave to anger...
The First Christians Were Not Socialists...
DarkSky International announce the winners of the 2025 Capture the Dark photography contest...
At Wednesday Audience, Pope Leo XIV Raises Alarm on Sudan: ‘Stop This Humanitarian Catastrophe’...
Anger, Death, and the Inevitable Disregard for the Golden Rule...
One of the most important tenets that Jesus immediately proposed and explained to those present around him was the importance of living a life of beatitude. He presses an important point of loving your brother by shunning one’s anger. Even more, he reminds those around him that whoever kills is bound to judgment, as the one who holds anger toward his brother is also liable to judgment. The correlation between killing someone and the anger someone holds against someone or something...
The Duchess of Kent attended my ordination at Westminster Cathedral. Today, on the day of her funeral, I pray for the repose of her soul...
On Tuesday the funeral of Her Royal Highness Katharine Duchess of Kent will take place in the Cathedral. This will be the first Catholic royal funeral in modern history, made all the more historic by the presence of their Majesties King Charles and Queen Camilla. While the funeral ceremonies are a private, family affair, we chaplains here have the great privilege of concelebrating at the Requiem Mass. This has a particular significance for me because, by a strange providence, Her Royal Highness also attended my own ordination here in the Cathedral.
People Are Knocking. Here’s How Parishes Can Respond...
Early reports from across the country suggest that Catholic churches across the country were uniquely full this past Sunday. Social media and on-the-ground reporting indicates that the upswing was attributed to the impact of violence in our country in recent weeks, particularly the assassination of Charlie Kirk. In his recent address to the recently appointed bishops gathered in Rome, casually referred to as “Baby Bishop School,” Pope Leo XIV issued a challenging word
‘Hey Culligan Man!’: How My Parents’ ‘Yes’ to Life Changed the World...
In interview with Crux correspondent, Pope talks Ukraine, synodality, polarization, World Cup...
Brian Burch, New US Ambassador to the Holy See, Formally Presents Credentials to Pope Leo XIV...
The Brief, Servant's Life of Newly Canonized Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati...
Pope Leo XIV to New Bishops: ‘Be Builders of Bridges’...
Charlie Kirk: A Joyful Warrior for Life...
“Why should I not be able to eliminate my ten-month-old baby?” Charlie Kirk invited an obnoxious, narcissistic young college student to give her best effort at making her “pro-choice” arguments. He was respectful. She was not. He was convicted about protecting the weak, unborn child, and tried to draw out of the girl why he didn’t have the right to kill a born child if she could kill her unborn child. She ignored him and said she had another question to ask instead of responding to his respectful response to her.
Charlie Kirk, Iryna Zarutska and the conversations we need to have...
On Sept. 10, conservative activist Charlie Kirk, 31, was shot and killed during a speaking event in Utah. He leaves behind a wife and two very young children. Assassination is a tragedy for our country and for humanity. In this case it raises the flame beneath a pot that had already been simmering and is now dangerously close to boiling over. We must pray for peace, and for a reckoning that rids us of senseless violence once and for all.
How Soft Religious Relativism Is Hardening Into Open Persecution...
Way back in olden times, when I was still a professor of theology, one of the most ubiquitous attitudes amongst the students was that it does not matter which religion one practiced since “all religions are really saying the same thing in their essence”.Indeed, in this view, it does not even matter if one practices a religion at all since it is possible to be a “good person” and to be “spiritual” without any religious affiliation. Furthermore, such views are expressed with extreme confidence, as if there is no need to offer arguments for them since their reasonableness is beyond dispute.
I Knew Charlie Kirk. He Was a Man of Intelligence, Charm and Goodness of Heart...
I first met Charlie Kirk about four years ago when I was in Phoenix for a speaking engagement. He reached out and invited me to breakfast. I was deeply impressed by him that day. He was a man of great intelligence, considerable charm, and real goodness of heart. I reconnected with him just last year, after I saw him debate twenty-five young people who were, to put it mildly, hostile to his views...
Seven Catholic Bishops Join Record-Breaking UK March for Life in London...
The Lost Art of Catholic Cinema...
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Why are we obsessing over Cracker Barrel logos? Let’s make America serious again...
Seeing What a Saint Is Like: Malcolm Muggeridge and Mother Teresa...
Mastering AI: Benedictine College Launches New Center as Carlo Acutis Is Canonized...
St. Maria Goretti, Mother Seton, and Other Jubilee Saints...
What Did the Pope Say to Father James Martin?
Why is OCIA Growing in the United States?
How the Sony Hawk-Eye system could revolutionize the NFL...
Duchess of Kent, First Senior Royal to Become Catholic in 300 Years, Dies at 92...
This Sunday, Jesus’ Words Are Shocking, Until You Realize Who He Is Describing...
Trans terrorist murder of Christian school children will no longer be memory-holed...
The 25 Best Pizza Places In America...
St. Augustine’s Confessions: A Simplified Reading (in 13 Points and a Bonus)...
There’s a new eparch in the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church — what is that?
Counting the Cost: A Reflection on the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time...
The Best Burger in Every State...
The Smell of a Skunk and the Odor of Sanctity...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
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- St. Hyginus (136-140)
- St. Pius I (140-155)
- St. Anicetus (155-166)
- St. Soter (166-175)
- St. Eleutherius (175-189)
- St. Victor I (189-199)
- St. Zephyrinus (199-217)
- St. Callistus I (217-22)
- St. Urban I (222-30)
- St. Pontian (230-35)
- St. Anterus (235-36)
- St. Fabian (236-50)
- St. Cornelius (251-53)
- St. Lucius I (253-54)
- St. Stephen I (254-257)
- St. Sixtus II (257-258)
- St. Dionysius (260-268)
- St. Felix I (269-274)
- St. Eutychian (275-283)
- St. Caius (283-296)
- St. Marcellinus (296-304)
- St. Marcellus I (308-309)
- St. Eusebius (309 or 310)
- St. Miltiades (311-14)
- St. Sylvester I (314-35)
- St. Marcus (336)
- St. Julius I (337-52)
- Liberius (352-66)
- St. Damasus I (366-84)
- St. Siricius (384-99)
- St. Anastasius I (399-401)
- St. Innocent I (401-17)
- St. Zosimus (417-18)
- St. Boniface I (418-22)
- St. Celestine I (422-32)
- St. Sixtus III (432-40)
- St. Leo I (the Great) (440-61)
- St. Hilarius (461-68)
- St. Simplicius (468-83)
- St. Felix III (II) (483-92)
- St. Gelasius I (492-96)
- Anastasius II (496-98)
- St. Symmachus (498-514)
- St. Hormisdas (514-23)
- St. John I (523-26)
- St. Felix IV (III) (526-30)
- Boniface II (530-32)
- John II (533-35)
- St. Agapetus I (535-36)
- St. Silverius (536-37)
- Vigilius (537-55)
- Pelagius I (556-61)
- John III (561-74)
- Benedict I (575-79)
- Pelagius II (579-90)
- St. Gregory I (the Great) (590-604)
- Sabinian (604-606)
- Boniface III (607)
- St. Boniface IV (608-15)
- St. Deusdedit (Adeodatus I) (615-18)
- Boniface V (619-25)
- Honorius I (625-38)
- Severinus (640)
- John IV (640-42)
- Theodore I (642-49)
- St. Martin I (649-55)
- St. Eugene I (655-57)
- St. Vitalian (657-72)
- Adeodatus (II) (672-76)
- Donus (676-78)
- St. Agatho (678-81)
- St. Leo II (682-83)
- St. Benedict II (684-85)
- John V (685-86)
- Conon (686-87)
- St. Sergius I (687-701)
- John VI (701-05)
- John VII (705-07)
- Sisinnius (708)
- Constantine (708-15)
- St. Gregory II (715-31)
- St. Gregory III (731-41)
- St. Zachary (741-52)
- Stephen II (III) (752-57)
- St. Paul I (757-67)
- Stephen III (IV) (767-72)
- Adrian I (772-95)
- St. Leo III (795-816)
- Stephen IV (V) (816-17)
- St. Paschal I (817-24)
- Eugene II (824-27)
- Valentine (827)
- Gregory IV (827-44)
- Sergius II (844-47)
- St. Leo IV (847-55)
- Benedict III (855-58)
- St. Nicholas I (the Great) (858-67)
- Adrian II (867-72)
- John VIII (872-82)
- Marinus I (882-84)
- St. Adrian III (884-85)
- Stephen V (VI) (885-91)
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- Stephen IX (939-42)
- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
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- Leo VIII (963-64)
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- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
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- John XIV (983-84)
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- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
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- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
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- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
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- Honorius II (1124-30)
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- Gregory VIII (1187)
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- Celestine III (1191-98)
- Innocent III (1198-1216)
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- Gregory IX (1227-41)
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- Alexander IV (1254-61)
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- Alexander VII (1655-67)
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