Catholicism has always possessed a vivid symbolic imagination. The Church embraces a sacramental worldview, filled with signs and mysteries β miracles, apparitions, relics, saints, and sacred gestures. This imagination can nourish faith, but without guidance it can also slide into...
A quiet rebrand, a louder message, and a calculated campaign to curate a new kind of Catholic audience has hit social media. In late 2025, a new Catholic media brand Sign of the Cross began circulating aggressively on Facebook, Substack,...
I have returned to the US, following several days in Lourdes. While there, I participated in the 27th annual St. Francis de Sales International Congress, along with around 250 other Catholic journalists and communications professionals, hailing from 30 countries (although...
Itβs no secret that certain quotes that are falsely attributed to St. Francis of Assisi have worked their way into popular consciousness. Most people realize that the famous Peace Prayer of St. Francis was likely written in the 19th century,...
Under Pope Francis, and in part as a reaction to his papacy, we are witnessing the flourishing of a Catholic fundamentalism that often borrows from its Protestant predecessors (see, for example, this article by Mark Silk for an overview of...
Now that the dust has settled after the Vaticanβs summit on the Amazon, one unlikely result has been the surfacing of the connection between Pope Francisβ most avid traditionalist opposers and a broader organized network that has the aim of...
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