LENTCAzT 2023 – 40: Palm Sunday – Hosanna… now.

Daily 5 minute podcast to help you in your Lenten discipline. Roman Station: St. John Lateran TODAY: Bl. Ildefonso and Pius Parsch bring us into the drama and significance of this royal day. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf · LENTCAzT 2023 – … Read More →

New Converts Drawn to the Faith Through the Real Presence

L to R: Sponsor Max Chapman and soon-to-be Catholic Jay Mingo are ready for Easter. Taylor Fisher is confirmed at the Easter vigil 2022 at St. Thomas Aquinas Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Father Alec Sasse. Christine Cremer was her sponsor. Ashton Armenta, in the green dress, looks on. There are 37 new Catholics at […]

Russia takes over U.N. Security Council, prompting outrage

Russia has taken over the presidency of the United Nations Security Council despite war torn Ukraine urging members to block the move. As a result, the Security Council is now being led by a nation whose president is subject to an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes and who places nuclear weapons in Belarus. […]

APRIL 2023 EDITION: Take Courage and Wait for the Lord

PDF Button April 2023 Edition Now Available — Preview HERE April 1, 2023Saturday of Passion Week Dear Friends in Christ, We are about to enter the holiest week of the liturgical year, during which we will not simply call to mind but sacramentally re-live the mysteries of our Redemption. As Dom Prosper Guéranger observes in […]

Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion — According to St. Matthew

Heinrich Hofmann (1824-1911), “Christ in Gethsmane” SCRIPTURES & ART: This Sunday, we hear about three of Matthew’s unique details about the fate of Judas, the coming of the Holy Spirit and the guard at the tomb — along with the Jesus’ prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane.

GAO to probe St. Clare’s case amid ongoing investigation into church-affiliated pension plans

WASHINGTON (OSV News) — A federal investigation on church-affiliated pension plans will probe a depleted pension fund that wiped out retirement plans for former employees of the now-shuttered St. Clare’s Hospital in Schenectady. Assemblyman Angelo Santabarbara, D-Schenectady, told local media that the U.S. Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, would probe the St. […]

A Dangerous Relator in Mischief

In March 28, 2023, the National Catholic Reporter published an article entitled “Top synod cardinal says church could one day revisit ban on ordaining women”.  In it they inform us of a “newly named top adviser to Pope Francis and leading organizer of the Vatican’s ongoing synod process [who] believes that it might one day […]