Day 126: David’s Victories (2022)
Fr. Mike emphasizes how King David’s victories in battle are part of his calling to establish Israel as a kingdom. He also reminds us that the recapitulation of the events we read about 1 Chronicles 10-11, is not repetitive, it served a specific purpose for the people of Israel. Today we read 2 Samuel 8, […]
Spanish bishop laments that Biden is fashioning a religion to suit his support for abortion
U.S. President Joe Biden at the Vatican, Oct. 29, 2021 / Daniel Ibanez/CNA Alicante, Spain, May 5, 2022 / 14:01 pm (CNA). Given the repeated attempts by Joe Biden to present abortion as compatible with the Catholic faith, a Spanish bishop lamen… […]
Pope Francis permitted spending $1m to free nun kidnapped in Mali, cardinal says
Pope Francis greets the recently freed Sister Gloria Cecilia Narváez Argoti at the Vatican, Oct. 10, 2021. / Vatican Media. Vatican City, May 5, 2022 / 16:05 pm (CNA). At the Vatican’s finance trial on Thursday, Cardinal Angelo Becciu said that… […]
Authentic moral reasoning vs. appeals to legalism
When the Church speaks definitively on morality—says that without exception something is wrong—is it declaring a truth or laying down a law? Confusion about that is rampant today. Recently I came across this statement by […]
Dark magic: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
Six years after its release, Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange remains one of the best Marvel movies, and certainly one of the only cinematically interesting installments. In a franchise replete with visually dull, generic action sequences, […]
Bishop McManus: “He tapped me on the cheek and said, ‘Be a good bishop.”
Bishop Robert J. McManus, 70, is the fifth bishop of Worcester, Massachusetts. He is a faithful prelate whose stand for Catholic orthodoxy has brought him criticism by activist groups. Last month, for example, protestors gathered […]
St. Eadbert
Eadbert was ordained successor to St. Cuthbert, in the see of Lindisfarne, in the year 687. He spent eleven years as bishop of that church. Like his predecessor, Eadbert made it a practice to spend Lent and forty days prior to Christmas in solitude at a place by the sea. There he would practice fasting […]
Tucker Carlson: U.S. is ‘speeding toward one of the great disasters in our history’ with Ukraine policy
‘This is the most reckless foreign policy in American history’ as our politicians ‘casually dismiss the consequences of going to war with the nuclear-armed nation,’ Carlson said.
Disabled Canadian woman pursues medically-assisted death after being unable to secure housing
‘I’ve applied for [assisted suicide] essentially … because of abject poverty,’ the woman said.
Tucker Carlson: U.S. is ‘speeding toward one of the great disasters in our history’ with Ukraine policy
‘This is the most reckless foreign policy in American history’ as our politicians ‘casually dismiss the consequences of going to war with the nuclear-armed nation,’ Carlson said.