A Reflection for Holy Thursday Today is the Passover of the Lord. When Jesus celebrated the Passover with his disciples for the last time, it was different than all the other Passovers he had celebrated. There were no bitter herbs or the Passover Lamb but only bread and wine. It was the Passover...
Several years ago I gave a talk about the Presentation of the Lord that included a reflection Cardinal Ratzinger. I just happened to stumble across it again yesterday and it struck me in a new way this Holy Week. Ratzinger said: “From Mary we can learn what true com-passion is: quite unsentimentally assuming...
Editor’s note: This is a response to the angry backlash by online traditionalists and other critics of Trad Recovery, written by member (and former traditionalist) Andy M. It was originally posted to the Trad Recovery blog, and is reproduced here with his permission. In this article, Andy explains why Trad Recovery was founded...
Note: Jimmy Akin recently did an episode of his “Mysterious World” podcast on a short book that had a significant impact on my life. My understanding of this book changed as I matured, and I learned a significant lesson about the way traditionalist Catholic propaganda and conspiracies work, and the importance of detachment...
We have a Throwback Episode for you this week. This was the first episode of our third season. Dominic and I interviewed the Eastern Orthodox theologian, Brad Jersak. It ended up being one of my favorite interviews ever for the podcast. I first came across Brad’s work a few years ago when a...
A reflection on the readings for March 24, 2024 — Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion In the First Book of Kings, Solomon, the Son of David, inherits a kingdom that, under his father’s rule, had been torn apart by civil war, division, and turmoil. When the moment comes for him to enter...
After a visit in late February to Gemelli Isola Tiberina Hospital and undergoing diagnostic tests, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis was “still feeling unwell,” but planned to preside over Holy Week liturgies nevertheless. On February 29, the Pope’s schedule for Holy Week and Easter was announced. It will include Palm Sunday, the...
Without repeating everything that we have already mentioned, it is appropriate first of all to emphasize the following point: for the Church, the first means of evangelization is the witness of an authentically Christian life, given over to God in a communion that nothing should destroy and at the same time given to...
Traditionalist social media has been particularly angry this week over the announcement of a “Catholics in Communion Conference“ sponsored by the Trad Recovery organization to be held this summer at St. John Vianney Catholic Church in Belgrade, Montana (which is not as remote as it may sound — the church is less than...
I have spent much of the last two days deeply engrossed in the latest book about Pope Francis, Life: My Story Through History, in which the pope recounts his life through his memories of major world events, such as the outbreak of World War II, the Holocaust, the moon landing, and Argentina’s 1986...
Editor’s Note: A priest asked Deacon McManaman to write this article as something to give to couples who come to seek baptism for their child, but who are not married in the Church, to help them understand Catholic teaching on marriage and the importance of sacramental marriage. We are sharing this as a...
UPDATE: Story developing, see update below. ML. An email went out to Church Militant subscribers at 2:26 PM Eastern US Time this afternoon with the subject “Final Correspondence.” The message, signed by “St. Michael’s Media” announced, “After 17+ years of teaching the Faith, it is with heavy hearts we must now announce the...
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