All eyes in the Catholic world have recently been on Tyler, Texas. Today we’ll talk to a deacon of that diocese about what it was like to live as a Catholic in the Diocese of Tyler under Bishop Strickland.
Enemies of Bishop Strickland came out in force in the last week, trying to one-up each other in their ludicrous accusations against the good bishop.
Some Catholics seem to think that if we all pretend, really really hard, that everything is perfect in the Church, then it will never occur to anyone to leave.
For all of its fearfulness, the Church never cheated her children of death’s sublime, albeit mournful, reality.
A Pakistani Catholic family, along with many others, needs help after fleeing from Muslim persecution.
American combat veterans encountered more than they bargained for when they met the teenage boys in Boystown.
The General Judgment is when and where you find out the disposition of everyone, and you find out how they got there. It is when everything is revealed.Â
In the midst of a long but temporal defeat, Christians can find encouragement in glimpses of our final victory.
A growing number of Catholics have placed their personal desires aside to step along the paths trodden once by the souls of medieval Christendom.Â
When someone leaves Catholicism due to scandals in the Church, it does no good to accuse him of unfaithfulness or blame those who are exposing the crisis in the Church. But how should we respond?
A sacrilegious music video filmed in a Catholic church raises many questions of how such a thing could have happened in the first place.
In the midst of infertility, I was tempted to give up. It was too emotionally exhausting. But the Lord was waiting to work in our lives.
The Hedgehog knows one big thing, but our Synod Fathers (and Mothers) seemed consumed with many lesser things.
Almost three years ago, to much fanfare, a new intentionally Catholic community was founded near Tyler, Texas. Since then it has faced growing pains as well as successes. What is the status today of the Veritatis Splendor community?
In an increasingly insane world, where up is down and men are women, Catholicism is the only hope for a return to reality.
The Church must act and intercede on behalf of broken homes, for single-parent homes are connected with higher rates of substance abuse, criminality, suicide, and poverty.
I am powerless to argue matters over with the Holy Father. But I’m not completely powerless, because I can pray.
Dystopia doesn’t judge as much as it observes and predicts. If we do A, then B will happen. Hence, dystopia has come to be a means of critiquing society in a way that gets past our ideological barriers.
In recent decades, the decline of the Church has resulted in the closure and sale of a host of Catholic real estate: churches, convents, monasteries, schools, and rectories.
A revival of the Church will come in the restoration of Catholic culture.