Wednesday after Epiphany
The most phenomenal detail in today’s Gospel is that Jesus is actuallyseen by his disciples walking on water in the middle of the night.What do you think this meant to the disciples? What does it mean toyou now, some 2,000 years later? What does this fact say to you aboutJesus? Off hand, it is quite […]
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“If our Lord, who is the head of the Body to which we belong, prayed so often then we, the members of that Body, must follow His lead.” -Dom Hubert van Zeller, Prayer and the Will of God
God Made Us to Live in Community
I finally turned off my phone at 4 AM. I was awake, as usual, with our infant son, Auggie, and the only way I knew to pass the time in the dark was to scroll the news, however dreadful and deafening it was to my heart and soul—and to the world. Auggie is labeled a […]
Bp. Strickland: ‘I’d rather die than benefit from anything produced by using an aborted child’
Long a strong critic of abortion-tainted COVID shots, Bishop Strickland is ‘tripling down’ on his opposition, this time in support of similar statements by Fr. Mark Goring.
Bp. Strickland: ‘I’d rather die than benefit from anything produced by using an aborted child’
Long a strong critic of abortion-tainted COVID shots, Bishop Strickland is ‘tripling down’ on his opposition, this time in support of similar statements by Fr. Mark Goring.
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5 predictions for Pope Francis and the Vatican in 2022…
Pope Francis successfully closed the books on a somewhat dismal 2021 over the weekend, repeating basically familiar themes, from the importance of solidarity in facing the Covid pandemic to a call for people of goodwill to become “artisans of fraternity.” The pontiff pulled out of leading his own New Year’s Eve vespers service at the […]
Dear Catholic vegetarians: Eating fake meat isn’t going to save the planet…
My family farmsteads on five acres in northwest Louisiana (at least we try to), and we buy any meat we do not produce ourselves from local, small producers within a 90-minute radius. John W. Miller’s critique of factory farming resonated strongly with me because our family’s food choices reflect a moral framework rooted in a […]
From the peripheries of ‘Traditiones Custodes,’ a plea to the bishops…
As most of you know, just before Christmas, an explanatory document (“responsa ad dubia”) was issued seeking to answer some of the many questions arising from Traditiones Custos, a motu proprio of Pope Francis on the Traditional Latin Mass. Many good authors have already commented on it, raising both canonical and liturgical concerns and questions…