Here’s video of the autistic boy who ran onstage during Wednesday’s papal audience...
Amidst our apocalypse, Advent asks us to stay...
As the liturgical year winds down, we are each day treated to images of the biblical apocalypse, those jarring end-times scenarios articulated by Jesus and through the mystical imagery delivered to us out of Patmos by Saint John. While at every Mass the Church declares that we “wait in joyful hope for the coming of the Lord,” these readings can feel terrifying...
For those who fight this long defeat, everlasting victory will be the reward...
One of the fatal errors that Christians make is the belief that Christians need to rule the world. If we had Christian rulers, it is argued, we would have a better world. And indeed we would. The problem is that the world is always more powerful than the Christians and will never be ruled by followers of Christ. It never has been and never will be...
What will the U.S. bishops and the Pope do next to combat abuse crisis?
Bishop Frank Rodimer and Father Peter Osinski were friends. Father Osinski was a priest in the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey. Bishop Rodimer was bishop of Paterson, a nearby diocese, from 1978 until 2004. For years the men rented a beach house together each summer on New Jersey’s Long Beach Island, south of Seaside and north of Atlantic City...
Memphis under Holley offers an object lesson for new bishops everywhere...
Inside the vestibule of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, the wall where the traditional portrait of the sitting bishop would be affixed now stands empty. Just over two years ago, Bishop Martin Holley was installed as the new head of the birthplace of Rock ‘n Roll, promising priests that he would be “a father and a pastor who serves...
Bishop Morlino was truly a churchman of his time...
The death of Bishop Robert Morlino will be noted far beyond the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin. The late prelate’s outspoken orthodoxy and support for traditional liturgy will ensure that. Yet his life is of interest beyond his diocese and his admirers. It tracked in an unusual way the ecclesial shifts of his time. Robert Morlino was born on New Year’s Eve 1946 into the solidly Catholic culture of Scranton...
A nursery rhyme Pope Francis would do well to read...
Mary Howitt wrote 180 books with her husband, and was a friend of Wordsworth and Dickens, but is remembered perhaps most of all for her children’s parable about insects, written in 1828. She forsook her ardent Quaker roots sometime after moving to Rome where she became a Catholic, less because of the Latin atmosphere and more for her admiration of Pope Leo XIII and his social commentaries...
Catholic migrant advocates have surprisingly mixed reaction to Tijuana border events...
Pope names Texas auxiliary to lead California’s Diocese of Monterey...
Jesus is before all, and by Him all things consist...
Priests, nuns, and Memphis’ 19th-century Yellow Fever epidemic...
Centuries-old Christian painting found in Japan...
February abuse summit will have to navigate waters of a global Church...
Asia Bibi’s family being hunted ‘house to house’ in Pakistan...
“The mouth that roared” — Personal memories of the Bishop Morlino most folks never knew...
Is Jesus Christ really your king?
The readings for the Solemnity of Christ the King...
This Sunday is the 34th Sunday of Ordinary Time, and as everyone knows, that means it is the Solemnity of Christ the King! This is the last Sunday of the liturgical year. The last day of the liturgical year will be Saturday December 1, and Liturgical Year 2019 will begin with the First Sunday of Advent, December 2. I give thanks to God for many things at this time of year...
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Three bundles of good news in bill to aid Iraqi Christians, Yazidis...
On Wednesday, the U.S. Congress adopted HR 309, titled the “Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018,” which now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk, where he’s expected to sign it into law. First introduced two years ago, the bill makes it clear that victims of the ISIS genocide in Iraq, including Christians and Yazidis...
A hard day’s night in Houston...
Ten hours into the prosecutorial operation Houston Chancery doesn't want to be described as a "raid," the senior officials of the US' sixth-largest diocese – led by the sitting president of the bench – remain shut out of their offices and huddled in a conference room at 1700 San Jacinto as a crowd of "at least 50...
Archaeologists find name of Pontius Pilate on 2,000-year-old ring...
Texas Rangers execute abuse-related search warrant on Houston chancery...
Memories of my friendship with Bishop Morlino...
Cleansed and conformed to God’s will...
Father, We Thank Thee, Who Hast Planted” has long been one of my favorite hymns. Its tune, taken from the sixteenth-century Genevan Psalter, is eminently singable. The hymn text—when not corrupted by that politically-correct scoundrel, “alt.”—is even better. For Francis Bland Tucker’s lyrics put twenty-first-century congregations in touch with the second generation of Christians...
Second miracle from Blessed John Henry Newman confirmed; canonization may come as early as 2019 ...
The Atlantic dares to ask if exorcisms (and thus the supernatural) may be real after all...
Five years ago, I had a chance to eat lunch with the late William Peter Blatty, an articulate Catholic apologist who won an Academy Award for turning his novel, "The Exorcist," into a stunning Hollywood screenplay. Yes, I called Blatty a Catholic apologist. Why? In part because he viewed his masterwork as a vehicle for criticizing this materialistic age...
Cherished beliefs of the sexual revolution (and how they protect sexual predators)...
One curious feature of the current clergy sex-abuse scandal is the reticence of the non-Catholic media to go after the predators. Many journalists in the “Legacy Media” seem to have an “anti-Catholic default” setting. One might think such journalists would leap at the chance to pile on with negative reports about the behavior of the Catholic hierarchy...
How to get over your horror of the Same Old Thing...
What is it like to be an underground Chinese seminarian?
Pope Francis: “The conclusion of history will be Christ’s eternal reign”...
A further meditation on Christ the King and Son of Man...
At Sunday’s Mass (Feast of Christ the King) we read an important passage from Daniel 7. It is important not only for its prophecy but also because Jesus implicitly sets it as an interpretive key for His own ministry and mission and an explanation of why He calls Himself the “Son of Man” so frequently. Many modern readers think that “Son of God” is both a higher and clearer title than “Son of Man...
Bishop Robert Morlino of Madison dies at age 71...
The passion of St. Bakhita...
“Through the intercession of St. Bakhita let us pray that all men and women will come to know the saving presence of the Lord Jesus and thus be freed from slavery to sin and death.” This was part of St. Pope John Paul II’s prayer during his homily at the canonization Mass for St. Josephine Bakhita of Sudan. At the age of about 9...
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