‘Archbishop Harold Holmes’: Pop Art from Jack White, John C. Reilly, and Flannery O’Connor...
In this Year of Our Lord 2025, we celebrate both the Jubilee Year of Hope and Flannery O’Connor’s one hundredth birthday. No doubt more Catholics are celebrating the former, but the two are related, as O’Connor was a devout Catholic, and although her fiction is dark, violent, grotesque, and unsettling, her ultimate vision is one of hope. America’s greatest Catholic writer, born on the feast of the Annunciation...
God loves repetitive prayer. The next time someone says otherwise, just show him this Psalm...
The Many Hidden Saints of Kent: Holy Men and Women Who Remain ‘Powerful Intercessors’...
“It’s like an epicenter of holiness,” said Canon Marcus Holden, “like several continents put together, all in one little place.” Canon Holden, who formally established the Shrine of St. Augustine of Canterbury in Ramsgate in 2012, was referring to the “remarkable” Catholic history of the county of Kent in England, an area slightly smaller than Rhode Island but with close links to possibly as many as 80 saints...
This Sunday’s Gospel: Martha, Mary, Abraham — and Mass...
Jesus comes over for dinner to the home of friends in the Gospel reading for the Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C, and one host, Mary, we are told, “sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak,” while her sister Martha “burdened with much serving, came to him and said, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me.’” The story is simple but endlessly instructive.
Pope Leo XIV Calls Cardinal Pizzaballa About Attack on Gaza Church...
On Friday, Pope Leo XIV spoke to Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, about the situation in the Gaza Strip, where on Thursday the area’s only Catholic church was hit by a shell from an Israeli tank, killing three people. Several others were injured, including Father Gabriel Romanelli, the pastor of the church.
Lord in the Ring? Catholicism and Bullfighting in Portugal...
The Church of Our Lady of the Castle commands an impressive view over the rural town of Coruche, which is about an hour’s drive from Lisbon, Portugal. Towards the end of the town you can clearly make out the impressive local bullring. António Ribeiro Telles knows both local landmarks well. The Ribeiro Telles family name is synonymous with bullfighting in Portugal. António and his two brothers are third generation bullfighters, and his own son and several nephews are carrying the torch into the fourth.
Monastic Luxe: The Style Pendulum Has Swung Back to Timeless Patterns, Rustic Wood, and a Vibe of the Sacred...
My family and I recently had lunch with friends on their Virginia farm. As I stepped out of the car, summer heat scented with lavender and the Mediterranean style home in yellow stucco immediately took me back to the many months I spent in Provence during and just after college. The husband explained that despite his modest earnings, his family lived on an expansive farm with breathtaking views because of the generosity of his parents...
More scandal surrounding a high-profile Catholic personality. For all of us, it’s a call to reflection...
A recent scandal involving a high-profile Catholic personality has shaken many faithful. In this video, I explore the dangers of Catholic influencer culture, the spiritual risks it poses, and the serious responsibility that comes with any form of public evangelization. This is a call for deeper discernment, accountability, and reform...
Losing Sleep Over 'Educating' Our Children...
Pope Leo XIV Demands Ceasefire After Deadly Israeli Strike on Gaza’s Holy Family Catholic Church...
Weird ‘Yeti Blood Oath’ Prank Divides Denver’s St. John Vianney Seminary...
Pope Leo XIV’s Hometown of Dolton, Illinois, Buys His Childhood Home, Eyes Historic Landmark...
Can Your Brain Run Out of Memory?
Waiting on the Lord: A Reflection on the 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time...
SSPX Investigated for Theft and Damage After Removing Altar and Furnishings From French Church...
Poland Leads Europe in Priestly Vocations as 208 Set for Ordination in 2025...
Convents and Monasteries Are Becoming Popular Retreats for Gen Z Women...
Why Do Catholics Keep Body Parts and Other Memories of Saints? A Beginner’s Guide to Relics...
Rome Readies for Jubilee of Youth: ‘You Will Never Experience Anything Like This Again’...
How One Monk Began Rebuilding the West...
How the Parents of St. Thérèse Can Help You Raise Children for Heaven...
Your Peace Is Getting Hijacked. Here’s the Fix...
The Decline of Liberal Catholicism...
This Sunday, See Christ and Be Christ By Receiving Christ, the Good Samaritan...
This Flemish Renaissance Artist Painted Bugs Like Jewels — And Changed Science Forever...
Apologetics Alone Is Never Enough...
A Pilgrimage to Częstochowa...
Hope Against Hope: A Priest’s Tale Made for the Movies...
Alleged Apparitions in Slovakia: What’s the Vatican Saying?
Bishops Draw the Line at Border Wall Expansion...
That’s Some Bad Fish Story – Spielberg’s “Jaws” Turns 50...
Camp Mystic, Texas Floods and Grieving for Lost Children...
A Divine Plan for Changing Diapers...
Pope Leo XIV Shares Message to Pilgrims at Historic Mass in Canterbury Cathedral...
The Ancient Temple’s Hidden ‘Bread of the Presence’ Reveals a Stunning Eucharistic Truth...
How St. Camillus Beat Addiction to Sin and Became a Servant of the Sick...
The Red Cross, Perverse Mercy, and a Crime Against Nature...
Happy Friday, friends, and a very happy feast of St. Camillus de Lellis to you. Camillus was the founder of the Camillian order in service to the sick. Born in the Kingdom of Naples in 1550, the future saint appears to have been raised mostly by his father, who was himself a professional soldier serving, as best I can tell, if not the highest bidder then at least more than one master...
‘You Are Gods’: The Catholic Doctrine of Divinization Is Making a Comeback...
When Grace Simcox came across the concept of deification last year, the Catholic theology student thought she might be dealing with something more pagan than Christian. The Franciscan University undergrad was debating her now-boyfriend, an Eastern Orthodox catechumen, and wasn’t sure if his constant emphasis on how the Christian life was aimed at theosis, or becoming like God, squared with her Catholic commitments — or if it did at all.
Scott Hahn and Rob Corzine: Why the Old Testament Still Matters...
This Is the Heart of the Matter...
When an ambitious man is young, his thinking is a race car. It runs full throttle toward the target of success, however he imagines it. Men of more senior years, with fewer ticks left on the clock, think differently. The mind turns to making sense of things; to getting to the heart of the matter of one’s time in the world. The task becomes ordering a riot of random memories into a coherent story; the fabric of a life that has meaning...
Lincoln Bishop James Conley Has the Care of 75,000 Catholics — and 10,000 Bees...
King Charles III’s Annual Swan Census Begins on the River Thames...
Pure Courage in the Christian Tradition: Knowing St. Kateri Tekakwitha and Her Living Legacy...
Watch some of the women who work and volunteer in Auriesville, N.Y., in action for even an hour of their lives, and you won’t doubt they live that mantra. And with an all-important sense of perspective — as they are on missions to find a relic of the True Cross for veneration to make a pilgrim’s miracle thanksgiving complete or to pick up hot dogs and buns for an anniversary event barbecue...
The Floods Still Speak: Baptism, Chaos, and the Saving Hand of God...
The floodplains of the Guadalupe River in Texas seem to be a place of elevated Biblical literacy. I imagine then that when the raging waters brought death and destruction, more than a few turned to Psalm 69. That psalm will be prayed at daily Mass today. And more than a few congregants, and perhaps a few preachers, will think about those who were overwhelmed by the floods in Texas...
Plans in Train to Exhume Holy Remains of Martyr St. Thomas More...
The Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology of Happiness...
It is 2008, it is my 16th wedding anniversary, and I am walking into the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception to pray for a miracle. I am about to turn in my letter of resignation from a dream job in Washington, DC. I am about to give up a forty percent raise, wonderful friends, and the best parish I have ever joined. So, I make my way past various side chapels until I find the statute of Our Lady of Sorrows. I kneel down. I am in tears. I pray for a last-minute miracle...
A Catholic Reading List for Midsummer Merriment...
Summer is a time of rest and fun, and, with it, our Jubilee Year pilgrimage reaches its halfway mark. Midsummer Eve, the midway point of an historically longer summer season and also of the entire year, has been traditionally observed with bonfires (literally bone-fires) on June 23, the eve of the Nativity of John the Baptist. According to ancient reckoning, it was the time of the summer solstice, when the sun was at its full strength...
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Prefecture of the Papal Household Poised for Renewal Under Leo XIV...
Fr. James Martin’s Homosophistry Takes Advantage of a Clear Double Standard...
5 Key Symbols of Grace in the Bible...
A Step-by-Step Guide to Praying Like Jesus...
Will Leo XIV Weigh in on France’s Criminal Chancellor?
Pax, French Clericalism, and American Iconography...
Diocese of San Bernardino Grants Sunday Mass Dispensation to Those Fearing Deportation...
Pope Leo XIV Shares Message to Pilgrims at Historic Mass in Canterbury Cathedral...
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When Protestants say Peter can't be ‘the rock,’ they have it exactly backwards...
The Ascension vs. Human Composting...
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The Complete List of Popes
- St. Peter (32-67)
- St. Linus (67-76)
- St. Anacletus (Cletus) (76-88)
- St. Clement I (88-97)
- St. Evaristus (97-105)
- St. Alexander I (105-115)
- St. Sixtus I (115-125)
- St. Telesphorus (125-136)
- 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)
- Formosus (891-96)
- Boniface VI (896)
- Stephen VI (VII) (896-97)
- Romanus (897)
- Theodore II (897)
- John IX (898-900)
- Benedict IV (900-03)
- Leo V (903)
- Sergius III (904-11)
- Anastasius III (911-13)
- Lando (913-14)
- John X (914-28)
- Leo VI (928)
- Stephen VIII (929-31)
- John XI (931-35)
- Leo VII (936-39)
- Stephen IX (939-42)
- Marinus II (942-46)
- Agapetus II (946-55)
- John XII (955-63)
- Leo VIII (963-64)
- Benedict V (964)
- John XIII (965-72)
- Benedict VI (973-74)
- Benedict VII (974-83)
- John XIV (983-84)
- John XV (985-96)
- Gregory V (996-99)
- Sylvester II (999-1003)
- John XVII (1003)
- John XVIII (1003-09)
- Sergius IV (1009-12)
- Benedict VIII (1012-24)
- John XIX (1024-32)
- Benedict IX (1032-45)
- Sylvester III (1045)
- Benedict IX (1045)
- Gregory VI (1045-46)
- Clement II (1046-47)
- Benedict IX (1047-48)
- Damasus II (1048)
- St. Leo IX (1049-54)
- Victor II (1055-57)
- Stephen X (1057-58)
- Nicholas II (1058-61)
- Alexander II (1061-73)
- St. Gregory VII (1073-85)
- Blessed Victor III (1086-87)
- Blessed Urban II (1088-99)
- Paschal II (1099-1118)
- Gelasius II (1118-19)
- Callistus II (1119-24)
- Honorius II (1124-30)
- Innocent II (1130-43)
- Celestine II (1143-44)
- Lucius II (1144-45)
- Blessed Eugene III (1145-53)
- Anastasius IV (1153-54)
- Adrian IV (1154-59)
- Alexander III (1159-81)
- Lucius III (1181-85)
- Urban III (1185-87)
- Gregory VIII (1187)
- Clement III (1187-91)
- Celestine III (1191-98)
- Innocent III (1198-1216)
- Honorius III (1216-27)
- Gregory IX (1227-41)
- Celestine IV (1241)
- Innocent IV (1243-54)
- Alexander IV (1254-61)
- Urban IV (1261-64)
- Clement IV (1265-68)
- Blessed Gregory X (1271-76)
- Blessed Innocent V (1276)
- Adrian V (1276)
- John XXI (1276-77)
- Nicholas III (1277-80)
- Martin IV (1281-85)
- Honorius IV (1285-87)
- Nicholas IV (1288-92)
- St. Celestine V (1294)
- Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
- Blessed Benedict XI (1303-04)
- Clement V (1305-14)
- John XXII (1316-34)
- Benedict XII (1334-42)
- Clement VI (1342-52)
- Innocent VI (1352-62)
- Blessed Urban V (1362-70)
- Gregory XI (1370-78)
- Urban VI (1378-89)
- Boniface IX (1389-1404)
- Innocent VII (1404-06)
- Gregory XII (1406-15)
- Martin V (1417-31)
- Eugene IV (1431-47)
- Nicholas V (1447-55)
- Callistus III (1455-58)
- Pius II (1458-64)
- Paul II (1464-71)
- Sixtus IV (1471-84)
- Innocent VIII (1484-92)
- Alexander VI (1492-1503)
- Pius III (1503)
- Julius II (1503-13)
- Leo X (1513-21)
- Adrian VI (1522-23)
- Clement VII (1523-34)
- Paul III (1534-49)
- Julius III (1550-55)
- Marcellus II (1555)
- Paul IV (1555-59)
- Pius IV (1559-65)
- St. Pius V (1566-72)
- Gregory XIII (1572-85)
- Sixtus V (1585-90)
- Urban VII (1590)
- Gregory XIV (1590-91)
- Innocent IX (1591)
- Clement VIII (1592-1605)
- Leo XI (1605)
- Paul V (1605-21)
- Gregory XV (1621-23)
- Urban VIII (1623-44)
- Innocent X (1644-55)
- Alexander VII (1655-67)
- Clement IX (1667-69)
- Clement X (1670-76)
- Blessed Innocent XI (1676-89)
- Alexander VIII (1689-91)
- Innocent XII (1691-1700)
- Clement XI (1700-21)
- Innocent XIII (1721-24)
- Benedict XIII (1724-30)
- Clement XII (1730-40)
- Benedict XIV (1740-58)
- Clement XIII (1758-69)
- Clement XIV (1769-74)
- Pius VI (1775-99)
- Pius VII (1800-23)
- Leo XII (1823-29)
- Pius VIII (1829-30)
- Gregory XVI (1831-46)
- Blessed Pius IX (1846-78)
- Leo XIII (1878-1903)
- St. Pius X (1903-14)
- Benedict XV (1914-22)
- Pius XI (1922-39)
- Pius XII (1939-58)
- St. John XXIII (1958-63)
- St. Paul VI (1963-78)
- John Paul I (1978)
- St. John Paul II (1978-2005)
- Benedict XVI (2005-2013)
- Francis (2013-2025)
- Leo XIV (2025—)
