Parish Priests Are the Cure to the Crisis
If parishes are giving better catechesis and liturgy, emphasizing Confession, and building devotion to the Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin Mary, shouldn’t they be seeing more fruit?
If parishes are giving better catechesis and liturgy, emphasizing Confession, and building devotion to the Eucharist and the Blessed Virgin Mary, shouldn’t they be seeing more fruit?
The next round of canonizations includes a layman who stood for marriage in remote Papua New Guinea.
Christianity is mere personal piety if it does not penetrate into every aspect of our public life—the culture at large—and we must insist on bringing it there.
St. Catherine’s Monastery has continuously fostered vocations at the foot of Mount Sinai since the sixth century. Its future, however, has come under siege from the Egyptian government.
The United States, founded upon freedom of religion, has turned rather into freedom from religion.
Knowing he could not simply keep doing what had been done, a young priest tried something different: an imitation of something old.
While most of us are alarmed by secular culture, aptly captured in Swift’s “New Romantics,” it might just be fertile soil for the perennial beauty that springs from the seeds of Catholic tradition.
The Church has never and will never change her teaching on the unworthy reception of Holy Communion—she can’t. But our Bishops must change their 60’s-rooted praxis of allowing it to happen.
The external trappings of Catholicism are vital for passing on the Faith, and should be encouraged even when the underlying doctrine isn’t fully proclaimed.
Advancements in science are pushing many to question a strict materialist view of human consciousness—including the man who has the highest IQ.
Influencer culture has captured the hearts and minds of our youth—and if we are not watchful, it could capture their souls as well.
The Feast of Corpus Christi, with its traditional public processions, is a call to all people to turn away from worldly cares and worship Christ as a mystical body.
The Church’s turn toward the globalist vision can be explained by the “ancien régime,” nationalist revolutions, and world wars.
Weighting the blessings and consequences of immigration on a host nation and those who seek to enter it.
Dispensationalist beliefs about Israel were re-popularized in low-church Protestant circles and are now held by many in our political class.
Nowhere does Catholic teaching on just war theory indicate that one nation can take military action to remove another nation’s government simply because that government isn’t “great” enough.
Many in the Middle-East foreign policy corps have been trying to co-opt MAGA into supporting war and regime change in Iran.
In a world and at a time when men have discarded the idea of intellectual truth, it is through the soul and in the imagination that they can, and must, be reached.
Catholic parents, do your daughters know that it’s okay—even good and holy—to desire a life as wife and mother, even above (and even forgoing) all other earthly considerations?
Pro-choice, same-sex marriage, and women’s ordination advocates may have to find another site to vent their anger at the Catholic Church now that the National Catholic Reporter has laid off some of their biggest allies.