Pittsburgh Catholic priest spearheads mission to rescue Ukrainian orphans...
The hopeful trend that nobody notices...
When Leila and I head off to Mass, early on a weekday morning, we can safely expect to find an empty pew. But not tomorrow morning; the little chapel will be packed. No, this is not one more commentary on the odd fact that even Catholics who do not show up for Mass on Sundays will be there on Ash Wednesday—and post selfies to tell the world about it...
Lent is an opportunity to fall in love with Jesus Christ...
In his exhortation to the people of Corinth, St. Paul explains how one is to live a life centered on Jesus Christ who was struck down but not destroyed. We are called to carry the body of Jesus so that His life may be manifested in our own bodies. He concludes with the following explanation: So, we do not lose heart. Though our outer man is wasting away...
What a generation of Catholic thinkers owes Peter Kreeft...
I remember my very first day in professor Kreeft’s classroom. I had been warned by another professor not to take Kreeft’s class, so naturally that made me curious to know why this Kreeft would merit this warning. I was a sophomore in every sense of the term, and the class was called “Thinking About Religion.” Kreeft walked in the classroom with a huge briefcase that resembled a large brown cube...
8 ways to share your Catholic faith on Ash Wednesday...
Ash Wednesday will soon be here and it is a good day to share your Catholic faith with others. In fact, Ash Wednesday Masses generally have more people attend that even Christmas and Easter, which shows a high level of engagement. Below are some suggestions on how to evangelize on Ash Wednesday.
Why is Ash Wednesday so popular? (And other questions at the start of Lent)...
Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday: Lent is a Time for Conversion and Interior Renewal...
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The strange reason migrating birds are flocking to cities...
What Hugh Hefner and the demon Screwtape can teach us about Lent...
He’s usually depicted in the middle of an orgy or a debauch. We usually see Bacchus, the Roman god of agriculture, fertility and wine, eating and drinking and making merry, and in a way that in the real world, for us non-gods, ends in tears. America had its own Bacchus in Hugh Hefner, now the subject of an apparently blistering A&E documentary called “Secrets of Playboy...
Are Christians supposed to correct the sins of others?
Back in your school days, did you ever have a teacher whom you really liked teaching you a subject you would not have otherwise cared about? The winsome way your teacher presented the material, and your personal respect and affection for her or him, motivated you to learn. Even back then, you recognized that your best teachers were not there to control or manipulate you...
John Paul II: ‘Most Holy Virgin, Protectress of Ukraine, watch over your children’...
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The story of a priest in the Diocese of Phoenix conducting invalid baptisms has been widely reported and commented on. But it would be good to reflect on this sad debacle by asking and answering a few questions. As a disclaimer, this article is not a personal attack on the priest involved. He seems contrite and did not seem to have a dissenting attitude...
U.S. Senate to vote on pro-abortion Women’s Health Protection Act...
A wise Benedictine once said, “To any ladies who wish to get married, I suggest: Marry a man who can fast”...
This is an interesting requirement in looking for a spouse. Immediately we might reflect that surely anyone can fast. But then again, there is fasting, and there is fasting. Fasting usually refers to foregoing food but can also refer to saying ‘no’ to other things, as for instance one could ‘fast’ from using social media...
What you need to know about Lent...
According to the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, “Lent is a preparation for the celebration of Easter. For the Lenten liturgy disposes both catechumens and the faithful to celebrate the paschal mystery: catechumens, through the several stages of Christian initiation; the faithful through reminders of their own baptism and through penitential practices”
St. Joseph, Communism and the ‘Radio Tower of Babel’...
The American poet Ezra Pound declared 1922 “Year Zero.” In the spring issue of that year’s avant-garde American literary journal Little Review, Pound, whose mantra was “Make It New,” published a calendar for this dawning epoch. The months of the year were renamed after pagan deities, both Greek and Roman. More surprisingly...
Who were those 21 martyrs beheaded by ISIS? An investigation...
Twenty-one Christians were beheaded as “people of the cross” by Muslims of the Islamic State just over seven years ago, in the middle of February 2015, on the Libyan beach of Wilayat Tarabulus, a bit west of Sirte. They were twenty Copts from Egypt, plus a companion from Ghana. A few weeks after the massacre, the Coptic “pope” Tawadros II canonized them as martyrs...
Just in time for Lent, here are 7 things you probably didn’t know about the Sacrament of Penance...
Here are the scenarios where Putin might actually use a nuke...
Why was Rome finally willing to call out Russia as an aggressor?
You might not think penance would be so popular, or that the average person in our generally feel-good culture likes being reminded that they’re dust. Yet the numbers don’t lie: Ash Wednesday is one of the most popular days to come to church, especially for non-practicing Catholics and even non-Catholics.
Ukraine, ‘happy’ Becciu, and weird mob football...
Many Ukrainian Catholics this weekend had the unusual experience of a liturgical calendar that seemed to be synced up perfectly to the narrative of their own lives — in a way that probably points to the confounding mystery of the Lord’s Providence. Much of the Ukrainian Catholic Church observed “Forgiveness Sunday” this weekend...
New Orleans hosts its first full-dress Mardi Gras since 2020...
8 ways to share your Catholic faith on Ash Wednesday...
Did the dinosaurs die on a pleasant North Dakota spring day?
Pope Francis hears an ‘exchange of views’ on the Order of Malta’s future...
UFOs, ETs and other Earths: The birth of a popular (but not scientific) idea...
When Giordano Bruno promoted the idea that the universe was full of other suns, orbited by other earths, the brilliant early-17th-century astronomer Johannes Kepler showed that science proved Bruno wrong, and that there was only one single sun: ours (see Part I in this series). But the idea of stars being suns had appeal, despite Kepler and his appeal to science...
Putin goes Soviet: Shades of the 1956 Hungarian uprising...
Ukrainian Catholic Leader: ‘May Dialogue and Diplomacy Conquer War’...
The hidden Catholicism of Johannes Vermeer, the great Dutch painter who converted from Calvinism...
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