Thoughts on the Influence of Old Prejudice
One day I was driving a fair distance to a York Regional Forest Trail to walk my dog and realized I had forgotten my phone, so my only other option besides silence was to listen to AM talk radio. I...
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Hope and Resilience: A Missionary’s Story from South Sudan
Note: This article was first featured by Indian Catholic Matters on July 15, 2025. Sudan and South Sudan have both suffered enormously due to brutal conflicts that have left deep scars on their people and societies. South Sudan, the world’s youngest...
The Case for Standing to Receive Communion
Many sincere Catholics associate kneeling with greater reverence and standing with something less. It’s an understandable instinct. But when we look at how the Church herself has understood these gestures across history, a clearer picture emerges. The question is not...
Poor in Spirit and Pure in Heart
Note: Deacon Doug graciously shared this homily with us for February 1st. Unfortunately, due to an email glitch, the piece went unposted. However, we feel it is a valuable reflection and are sharing it now, albeit two weeks late. As...
The Long Walk Home: From the Sanctuary to the Back Pew
Being Christian is not the result of an ethical choice or a lofty idea, but the encounter with an event, a person, which gives life a new horizon and a decisive direction. Pope Benedict XVI wrote these words in his...
Charity for Today, Not Tech for Tomorrow
If you are fighting poverty by supporting charities, you are doing it wrong. The real solution? Buy Elon Musk’s robots! Really? Well, that is what Musk promised about Tesla’s Optimus robots when tweeting on X, his social media platform: “Optimus...
Integral Human Development: Catholic Social Teaching’s Vision of Human Flourishing
While reading Pope Leo’s recent apostolic exhortation, Dilexi te, I was struck by an oblique reference he makes in the first chapter. Quoting Pope Francis, Leo observes that “some economic rules have proved effective for growth, but not for integral...
How to Have an Eco-Safe Christmas
Note: Last year, eleven-year-old Hana Sroubek sent WPI these suggestions for having an earth-friendly Christmas. WPI is reposting it this year so that it can serve as a reference during Advent and Christmas. Deck the halls with boughs of holly!...
After Traditionis Custodes: Archbishop Cordileone and Liturgical Renewal
On Friday, Nov. 14, after months of speculation, Catholics finally learned that Pope Leo XIV does not intend to overturn Traditionis Custodes. Rome signaled instead that it will consider more generous, renewable two-year dispensations at the request of bishops. With...
Pierre Calls U.S. Bishops to Renew the Vision of Vatican II
Calling the Second Vatican Council the “Map for the Journey Ahead,” Apostolic Nuncio Cardinal Christophe Pierre urged the U.S. bishops gathered in Baltimore for their Fall General Assembly to walk in a synodal spirit, in continuity with Vatican II, and...
Divine Poverty and a New Musical Setting of the Mass, Part II
For Part I of this article, click here. “In this call to recognize him in the poor and the suffering, we see revealed the very heart of Christ, his deepest feelings and choices, which every saint seeks to imitate.” This...
Divine Poverty and a New Musical Setting of the Mass, Part I
Triduum 2025 was – as always! – a whirlwind, a glorious and sleep-deprived delirium of music and liturgies and long drives everywhere. On the morning of Holy Thursday, I was able to arrive mid-Gospel at the Chrism Mass in Bridgeport....
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