Last year, in an email exchange, Dawn Eden Goldstein, who was writing her own articles on female deacons, encouraged me to follow my search into what a woman is. This series is a beginning of that search. Thank you for...
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. —Psalms 23:4 In 2013, the Pew Research Center found that the average lesbian, gay, or bisexual American first...
Through the Church—the sacrament of God’s infinite love—her Scriptures, her Tradition, her prayers, and her liturgies, people can encounter the living Christ and experience his love, healing, and transformative grace. But what happens when the men and women tasked with...
In his address on the opening night of the 10th National Eucharistic Congress, Cardinal Christophe Pierre, the Apostolic Nuncio to the US, reminded attendees that the “Roman Pontiff, as the successor of Peter, is the perpetual and visible principle and...
[Editor’s Note/Preface: When Pope Francis promulgated his July 2021 motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, which placed new restrictions on the celebration of the pre-Vatican II 1962 Roman liturgy, he sent an accompanying letter to the bishops of the world explaining his...
[Editor’s note: The following is an open letter from Father Larry Gosselin, OFM, former pastor of the St Joseph Apache Mission in Mescalero, New Mexico, to Bishop Peter Baldacchino of the Diocese of Las Cruces. This letter is concerning the...
Moments ago, the newly-excommunicated Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano published a pdf of his excommunication decree. This 11-page document — interestingly the same length as his August 2018 ‘testimony’ that began this saga — is in Italian and the scan is...
Pedro Gabriel is on a roll! He keeps releasing new books in defense of the Holy Father. Last week, Pedro received second place from the 2024 Catholic Media Association Awards in the category “History” for his book Heresy Disguised as...
I belong to a community of Discalced Carmelite nuns, and as cloistered contemplatives, we have heard several times that every bishop wants a contemplative community in his diocese to pray for him and his people. There was a story that,...
Sometimes the most unusual of circumstances produce the most extraordinary people, and this includes those who achieve sainthood. The story of young Carlo Acutis is one that has captured the hearts and admiration of people young and old all over...
Unless you’ve been living under a rock or avoiding the news, you’re aware that Pope Francis recently did a sit-down interview with CBS journalist Norah O’Donnell. In case you haven’t seen it yet, thirteen minutes of the interview were broadcast...
The following is the May 13, 2024, homily of Cardinal Juan José Omella, Archbishop of Barcelona, delivered at the Sanctuary of Fátima in Portugal. Due to the rain, he set aside his prepared text and delivered a spontaneous homily instead....
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