It takes a lot of time to also tolerate others’ problems, others’ defects in the silence of prayer, so as to find the right way to help them correct themselves. And this is not easy. The easiest path is to gossip. Talking behind someone else’s back as if I am perfect. And this...
I am a Catholic doctor who promotes health of body, mind, and spirit and strongly supports Pope Francis and his teachings. During this season of division in our society and our Church over health-related issues, I want to celebrate some of Pope Francis’s teachings that relate to health. I believe following his words...
In the last few years, including during the pandemic, I have attended a few baby showers and noticed one very favorable change to showers of a previous era. Moms and dads asked that families and friends bring their favorite children’s books so that they could build a library for their child. While most...
As the director of The Bernardin Center, you might think that I should do the most to keep the ministry and the legacy of Cardinal Joseph Bernardin alive in the Church and the world. Probably, that would be right. But I cannot say that I do the best job. There are others who...
A reflection on the readings for Sunday, November 7, 2021 — The Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time You cannot serve both God and mammon. Since the Scriptures were written, they have sought to warn the leaders of the flock about what is good shepherding and what is not. But we never seem to get the...
“[A previous Pope], with his vision of a Church placed at the service of the human family especially through her specific mission of evangelization, conceived of social doctrine (…) as an essential element of this mission, because it is “an integral part of the Christian conception of life” (…) This was particularly true of...
As we highlighted on this site on Tuesday, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago wrote an article entitled “The Gift of Traditionis Custodes” for the PrayTell blog, in which he explained the reasoning behind Pope Francis’s decision over the summer to reinstate restrictions on the use of the 1962 Missal and offered some ways...
Pope Francis recently gave an address to the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements, an address which has garnered a certain amount of attention, in part due to his remarks about the protests that followed the killing of George Floyd. The Pope’s many political opponents have used this as a chance to score...
Editor’s note: This is the second article in “Combat For Contemplative Life,” a series about the responses — inside and outside the cloister — to Pope Francis’s reforms of the contemplative life for women in various communities. In the first article, “A Praying Heart: How Pope Francis intends to save the cloistered life,”...
Today over at the PrayTell blog, Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago has written an article explaining why Traditionis Custodes—Pope Francis’s recent document abrogating Pope Benedict’s 2007 decision to liberalize use of the pre-Vatican II Missal—is a gift to the Church. He writes: Simply put, it is to re-establish throughout the Church of the Roman...
Timing is everything, so the adage goes. But while the calendar says that it is the first week of November (Halloween was just two days ago!) and the trees here are barely changing color, the Hallmark Channel is already into its “Countdown to Christmas,” holiday decorations (and not for Thanksgiving) are emerging on...
Today, November 1, is the Solemnity of All Saints, and, as in past years, Pope Francis gave a special noon Angelus address to mark the feast. Today, as he does most years, he spoke about the Beatitudes (Mt 5:1-12), the Gospel reading for today’s liturgy. He said that the Beatitudes “show us the...
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