The Death of a Father
I long for a father who will give me some encouragement in the thankless and often unpleasant task of building up something like a human culture, one whose springs well up from the Faith.
I long for a father who will give me some encouragement in the thankless and often unpleasant task of building up something like a human culture, one whose springs well up from the Faith.
The reign of Pope Francis was one filled with apparent incongruities and even contradictions.
Good Catholics were often confused during the Francis pontificate.
To enter into the eternal Easter, we must first pass through the transformative flames of the Sacred Heart.
Pope Francis famously called on Catholics to “make a mess.” He surely did, and now it’s up to us to clean up. Pray for the soul of Pope Francis, pray for the next pope, and pray for Holy Mother Church.
This year we celebrate the Semiquincentennial (250th Anniversary) of the commencement of our national life in its current form.
Every year Easter marks the time of renewal in our spiritual life, in our search for God.
Blessed Otto Neururer would be the first priest to be martyred by the Nazis but by no means the last.
The chain of blame which began at the fall of mankind ends at the mea culpa, and is replaced with the “ideo precor” – the beseeching of Mary, the angels, the all the saints.
Many of the greatest saints understood that mankind’s death sentence shows us how we ought to live our life.
Is the attempt to tamp down Christianity in the public square real or imagined?
Revisiting the forgotton symbols of Christian culture help us to deepen our understanding of scripture and our faith.
One simple priest answered the call to lay down his life for God’s suffering flock, and we are reminded of what His love looks like.
The kiss-and-tell betrayal of Jesus by one in His inner circle speaks to how close to Him Judas actually was.
Was Murray’s intent to defend Western Civilization or to betray it to an Israel First agenda?
Both Carney and Trump have been cast as national saviors. But the Christian worldview reminds us that no political figure offers true salvation. These are manufactured messiahs.
In the face of the alarming reality of rapidly shrinking Catholic School numbers, many bishops seem unable or unwilling to respond to the writing on the wall.
We need ever-fresh exhortations to reinvigorate the seriousness of Passion Week in our own hearts and minds.
God so loved the world, He sent His only begotten Son to save us from the hellish emptiness of our fallen and barren self-love.
Will AI give us more control over online narratives about ourselves and the world around us, or will they ultimately go the way of Wikipedia and Google?