Being a pilgrim is not easy, as Dorothy Day shows...
We once had a pastor who often, almost in every homily, described the Christian life as a “journey.” The word’s a good go-to image for the Christian life, but it’s not the best one. The Christian life isn’t just a journey, though, it’s a particular type of journey. By itself, the image says that you’re moving but not where you’re going and why...
Wise men listen when hypocrites speak. We’re all at least slightly hypocritical, but Christ still calls us to speak of his mercies...
“I have a question,” my student said ominously as he sat in the chair in my office. I braced internally and probably externally—my heart is worn on my whole demeanor. When he asked it, I was relieved: “How can I be a theology major and keep sinning?” You can’t go for long in Christian life without discovering what St. John Henry Newman meant when he said, “To know is one thing, to do is another; the two things are altogether distinct.”
The transitional diaconate is integral to the Catholic Church...
A moveable feast, Twitter bishops, and too many whales...
Depending on where you are, or were yesterday, you’ve either celebrated the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord or will do so this Sunday. There are three tiers of canon law at play here, and people often ask us what the deal is, what exactly their obligations are, and even how fast and loose you can play pilgrim across diocesan lines to celebrate it according to your day of preference.
Hidden Google Maps Features You Should Know About...
Company Fires Florida Catholic for Marking His Pronouns ‘Assigned by God’...
Cor Ad Cor Loquitur: We Can Deepen Our Friendships by Deepening Our Conversations...
Aristotle famously wrote that no one would want to go on living without friends—even if he possessed all other goods. That is quite the claim! Is it really the case that if you had all of the pleasure, and influence, and beauty, and wealth, and leisure, and wisdom you could imagine—that you would still not want to live without friends?
No Church, no witness to the world. No Eucharist, no Church. And no priests, no Eucharist...
The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre once described humans as “dependent, rational animals,” arguing in his text that, as creatures, we need the virtues. This makes sense, because none of us is really “independent” or “self-sufficient.” Each of us is imperfect. We need others to complete and support us. They need us for the same reason...
How to Manage (and Even Embrace) Transition as a Priest...
Transition is a challenge that every priest encounters but how do you not only navigate but embrace it. Oftentimes the challenge comes not singularly in the change but primarily in the loss. When these losses come it is absolutely necessary that our priests come to terms, respond, ceremonialize, and finally ask for a brother or member of Christ who reminds and encourages them of their purpose, picture, plan, and part to play in the midst of that loss.
Midwest Catholicism Is Humble, Yet Powerful — Just Like Mary...
Midwesterners are used to being overlooked. After all, this is the part of the U.S. known as “flyover country” by coastal denizens. Even the region’s most prominent metropolis, Chicago, is known as “The Second City,” a nickname that originated as a put-down, made by a visiting journalist from the nation’s “first city,” New York.
God will not just raise you from the dead someday — He will transform you in the body you have...
‘Veritatis Splendor’ priests expected to leave Tyler diocese...
Strange Phenomena and Spiritual Warfare: A Catholic Convert’s Testimony...
Did Egyptian monks pave the way for St. Patrick?
The book opens like a mystery novel. The year is 2006. An Irish farmer, digging for peat, notices an odd shape in his bucket. Looking carefully, he discovers that it is a very old book. Bringing it to experts, he learns that it is a psalter, more than a thousand years old, written on papyrus, bound in leather...
Priest Plunges School Into Darkness to Save Children From Marauding Gunmen...
7 Suggestions for Becoming More Childlike...
One day, I was sitting at our kitchen table watching a compilation of ads from the early 2000s. Like all Millennials, I’m a slave to nostalgia. One of them hit a little too hard, though: the commercial for York’s Wild Kingdom. For those who didn’t grow up in northern New England, York’s Wild Kingdom...
Cardiac Attest: How the Sacred Liturgy Can Ignite Souls with Sacred Heart of Christ...
A Museum Employee in Germany Was Fired for Putting Up His Own Art...
How Catholics Should Approach Media Heading Into Next Election...
It is a truth universally acknowledged that pretty much no one trusts “the news” anymore. You can’t really blame the American public for not believing the stories that fill their news feeds when so many legacy newsrooms are filled with activist reporters masquerading as unbiased journalists. We live in a time when men claim to be women and get away with it, when the innocence of our children is flaunted...
The AP says orthodox Catholics are growing too fast...
A recent Associated Press feature is framed with bad news — that progressive Catholics in the United States are experiencing pain because of the rising numbers of young priests and young adults (especially parents with, wink-wink, lots of children) seeking a more pro-Catholic Catechism approach to faith. But are the orthodox Catholics out of step with the growing churches of Africa, Asia and much of the Global South, or are they clashing with the shrinking churches of Europe and parts of North and South America?
What Our Lord did is awfully strange. For starters: How, exactly, did Jesus ‘Ascend?’...
The Easter Season is drawing to a close after 40 days. Before he left the earth behind, Jesus went to great lengths to show us what he wants us to do after he is gone, and it’s on clear display on the Ascension of the Lord and the Seventh Sunday of Easter. Before we get to what he wants, though, let’s focus on what he did.
Being 'Triggered' By Mother's Day Proves Our Need For Moms...
Mother’s Day seems as American as apple pie. It used to be the biggest day of the year for telephone companies, with many calling their mom only to hear: “All circuits are busy. Try your call later.” Of late, however, it has become controversial to even talk about Mother’s Day. The cancel culture has come to call.
Who is Setting the Tone at Home? Here Are 3 Suggestions...
How I think about marriage and homelife is much affected by life with my wife. I must remind myself not to universalize too quickly or without nuance. Yet I think what I’ve seen with my eyes, and felt in my heart, does point to something that goes beyond the contingencies of my experience. Woman has a natural inclination, we could say ‘genius,’ in setting the tone of life in the home.
Archbishop Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati Diagnosed With Cancer, Will Begin Chemotherapy Treatment...
Hitting the Bricks, 750th Anniversary of Lyons II, and the News...
The Miraculous Medal Is Ireland’s Hope, and Ours...
‘Wildcat’ lacks O’Connor’s oddness, but brims with passion...
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