This Is Us, with You

You read plenty of stories on Catholic Exchange, but do you know our story? You’d never guess. Once upon a time we were launched as e3mil.com (Evangelization for the Third Millennium), one of the first internet portals ever created for spreading the Catholic Faith right before the turn of the millennium. We were a for-profit […]

The Real Marie Antoinette | feat. Elena Maria Vidal

Listen HERE Catholic historian and writer Elena Maria Vidal sets the record straight on the oft-maligned Catholic Queen of France and martyr of the Revolution. While candidly acknowledging the queen’s faults, Elena’s work paints a portrait of Marie Antoinette in all her complexity. Drawing from her years of research, Elena discusses: Popular misconceptions about the queen, […]

St. Joseph Shows Us the Love & Dignity of Work

The feast of St. Joseph the Worker was first established in the 1950s by Pope Pius XII. In a time when Communism was growing in power, St. Joseph served as a powerful reminder of the real purpose of work. Work is meant to be participation in the work of God. St. John Paul II, that […]

Bad ideas continue to have bad consequences

You’ve heard the maxim, ‘Ideas have consequences, and bad ideas have bad consequences.’ In my estimation, Theological Ethics of Life: Scripture, Tradition, Practical Challenges (2022)i is rife with bad ideas. This 530-page volume collects the […]

Sensationalized Catholicism

TRANSCRIPT   There is a very strong current running through groups of faithful Catholics in these days of confusion and bewilderment. It’s the tendency to go chasing after prophecies and apparitions and seers and so forth, instead of knuckling down to do the hard — and, yes, shall we say it — frustrating, even boring life of […]