On an altar of sacrifice the Lamb of God was anointed by the Holy Spirit Understanding the statement of St. John the Baptist With his baptism in Jordan, Jesus Christ begins his public ministry. This episode is mentioned in the...
(This article is the second in a four-part series on faith and mental health. The first installment addressed the scientific underpinnings of psychology as well as some of the challenges that have historically plagued the field. The next article will...
(This article is the first in a four-part series on Mental Health written by Ariane Sroubek, PsyD. Ariane holds a doctorate in School and Child Clinical Psychology as well as a bachelor’s degree in biblical and theological studies. Her undergraduate...
Deck the halls with boughs of holly! It is getting to be that time of year again: a time full of joyous songs that celebrate Jesus’s birthday and presents to be unwrapped. But have you ever considered what happens to...
Editor’s Note Recently, we published several critiques on this website responding to the heterodox and superstitious views of the celebrity exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger. We also ran an essay by theologian Fr. Peter Joseph on several popular but theologically problematic...
It is estimated that there have been some million love songs recorded throughout various cultures and ages. Love as a subject of poetry and pondering never seems to lose its fascination. The desire for love, the search for love, finding...
In the most recent episode of his “Third Space” podcast, Paul Fahey interviewed Laura Vander Vos, founder of the Trad Recovery movement, an apostolate that assists people who are coming from the traditionalist movement and are looking for community, hope,...
November is the month of All Souls — when we commemorate the souls of those who have died. This is why the faithful may receive a plenary indulgence on any day from November 1 through 8, if we devoutly visit...
In Dilexit Nos, Pope Francis reinforces the Church’s conviction that the central axis of the cosmos is a heart at once human and divine. This wisdom, already present in two earlier encyclicals on the Sacred Heart (Pius XI’s Miserentissimus Redemptor and Pius XII’s Haurietis...
The expulsion last month of Alejandro Bermúdez, founder of the Catholic News Agency (CNA), from the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae (SCV) alongside nine others, has drawn significant attention, particularly due to the unusual accusation of “abuse of the apostolate of journalism.”...
Second article in the series Man and Woman – Image of the Triune God In his trial before the Roman prefect, Rusticus, St. Justin Martyr was asked, “What system of teaching do you profess?” Justin said: “I have tried to...
One of our contributors, V. J. Tarantino, composed an original musical setting of the St. Michael Prayer, a few years ago. In honor of the Feast of the Holy Archangels (not celebrated liturgically this year, as it falls on Sunday),...
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