For the dead and those who mourn
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...
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Dilexit Nos: The Heart of God
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...
Escape from the Bermúdez Triangle
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.”...
Image of One – Image of Three
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...
A musical setting of the St. Michael Prayer
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),...
What Is “The Real Thing” for Women?
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...
Wherever you go I will go: Accompanying LGBT/SSA+ Catholics
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...
Spiritual Abuse Workshop – Fall 2024
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...
Cardinal Pierre at NEC: Unity Comes from the Eucharist
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...
French Bishops on TLM: “Two worlds that do not meet”
[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...
Open letter to the bishop concerning the image of the Apache Christ
[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...
English translation of Vigano’s excommunication decree
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...
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