Forgiveness
A very experienced Christian counselor once told me that he thought that 80 to 90 percent of the problems people face are the result of their unwillingness to forgive others. The reason he believed that — and why I agree with him — is that when you withhold your forgiveness, you very nearly cut yourself […]
The Saints on Healing Through Grief
For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their Shepherd, and He will guide them to springs of living water; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 7:17 If you’re grieving the loss of a loved one and you know that no one can take that person’s place, […]
Revealing a Taboo Truth: Conservatives Getting God Right
Today’s Vortex features Michael Voris’ Friday speech at the “We the Patriots, USA” conference in Boise, Idaho — where he unreservedly tells conservatives that they will lose without Catholicism.
God Is a Loving Communion of Persons…
A Muslim man once accused me of what he called an “unforgivable sin.” My supposed offense was espousing a core truth of our faith, the foundation of all reality: Trinitarianism — that God is one being in three persons. I was dialoguing on that occasion with generally friendly and thoughtful Muslims, Jews, and Unitarians in […]
Incorruptibility and Holiness
Four years after her death, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster has mystified the world. How could the body of a deceased Benedictine nun remain intact after years in a leaky coffin? After all, the mortician who arranged […]
‘A unifying moment’: Sister Wilhelmina’s nuns share their story in exclusive TV interview
Sister Scholastica Radel (left) and Mother Abbess Cecilia Snell of the Benedictines of Mary, Queen of Apostles, discuss the recent exhumation of the order’s foundress, Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster, in an interview with EWTN News In Depth on May 30, 2023, at their abbey in Gower, Missouri. / EWTN News Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 4, 2023 […]
Open Doors at the Lateran
As FSSPX.News on April 25 reported: “This ‘bishop’ and these ‘priests’ cannot validly celebrate Mass since the Anglican confession has lost the apostolic succession as declared by Pope Leo XIII [Apostolicæ curæ , September 13, 1896] and therefore they cannot administer any sacraments.” The prelate’s name is Jonathan Baker; he is divorced and remarried, “and […]
Vatican: Long Distance Duel Over Morality
On the occasion of a congress organized by the Jérôme Lejeune International Chair of Bioethics – in which researchers from several major Catholic universities participate for two days – Cardinal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, emphasized to his listeners the need for all the faithful to defend […]
Vatican: Considerations on the New Fundamental Law
It would be a daring attempt to derive temporal power directly from spiritual power, which even the medieval popes would not have attempted in these terms, all the more astonishing from the “synodality” pope. But is it really true? For some commentators, Pope Francis seems to be saying that the right to exercise sovereignty over […]
The triumph of mercy
Pencil Preaching for Monday, June 5, 2023