2024: The Year Things Began to Turn Around
As we look back at 2024, we can see signs of hope for the future. Dire predictions of what would happen didn’t come to fruition and there’s evidence of an awakening among many.
Tradition and Treachery
Kneeling is good for the soul. It lifts you up by making you, in stature, no more than a child.
Twelve Tales for Twelve Days
Christmas is a time for stories like no other time—a time for fantasies, memories, and mysteries. Here are twelve tales to tell over the twelve days of Christmas.
Conceived in Heaven, Born in Bethlehem, a Jubilee Year Awaits
If God’s Son was truly to be made a genuine human being, made of flesh and blood, then of course He must have a genuine human mother of flesh and blood too.
The Face-to-Face Nature of Christmas
Taking time to consider what it would have been like to be in Bethlehem on that holy night can radically influence our vision for the celebration of Christmas.
A Fly Fisherman’s Carol
What is the great story and season of Christmas if not a tale and time of transformation?
Gen Z Catholicism (Guest: Peter Sammons)
Young Adult Catholics face a lot of challenges today practicing their faith, from dating to college to career and more. We’ll talk to a Catholic of this generation to see how they navigate today’s world.
Deforming the Clergy
Does the Novus Ordo Mass by its nature alter the nature of the priest from one who performs a sacrifice to one who is in charge of a ceremony?
The House Where It All Began
The Holy House of Loreto is precisely the place where it all began—namely, the Incarnation of God Himself.
Is Kneeling for Communion a Disruption?
It is important to remind the faithful of their canonical right to receive Holy Communion while kneeling, regardless of the form of the Sacred Liturgy that they attend.
Take and Study
Far from being a Protestant activity, the study of the Bible is for Catholics as well. Fortunately there are tools to help us in this undertaking.
The Cause and the Cure of Christmas Melancholy
Christmas is a haunting season, both in the sense that it is hauntingly beautiful and a time of great expectation for something that breaks reality in two.
Christ, King of Families
The only way to evangelize the modern pagan world today will be through the family.
The Nativity Fast: The “Advent” of the East
For the Eastern faithful, this is a season of repentance. It’s a period of solemn reflection on the Incarnation—the second person of the Trinity.
DC Diocese Financial Problems, Insurance CEO Assassinated, and Syrian Government Overthrown
Eric Sammons addresses the latest news in the Catholic Church and in politics, including the financial difficulties of the Archdiocese of Washington, the assassination of the UnitedHealthCare CEO, the overthrow of the Syrian government, and much more.
Keeping a Long Christmas
“Holiday creep,” which begins earlier every year is not motivated solely by a desire for profits. The unconscious sense that things are dreadfully awry provokes an equally unconscious desire to escape into the land of nostalgia.
What Children Do
Christ’s admonition to become like little children is not an invitation for the adults in the room to set about infantilizing themselves, but to open their eyes as the children do.
Natives From Nowhere
The Church’s task is not to simply make herself manifest in human cultures. That would be to subordinate the Church to local ways. The task is far more challenging than that: to baptize the cultures.
