Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Parishes Continue Eucharistic Revivals

Many American Catholics are witnessing and participating in the National Eucharistic Revival, an initiative approved in 2022 by Bishop Andrew Cozzens, chairman of the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis. This stage officially launched on Corpus Christi Sunday. This website of the Eucharistic Revival outlines the goals of the church: https://eucharisticrevival.org/. As the National Eucharistic Revival […]

Confess Your Sins While You Still Can

One of the worst tragedies of the modern Church is the downplaying of sin–both its reality and its effects. The number of ignorant Catholics who have not been taught the necessity of repentance through the Sacrament of Penance to rejoin the chasm between our Creator and creature severed by mortal sin are legion. Even if […]

Pope Francis names Bishop Coyne as new coadjutor archbishop of Hartford

Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington, VT. Courtesy photograph. / null Vatican City, Jun 26, 2023 / 04:40 am (CNA). Pope Francis appointed Bishop Christopher Coyne as a coadjutor archbishop of Hartford on Monday. As coadjutor, Coyne will assist Archbishop Leonard Blair in the administration of the Hartford archdiocese and should succeed him as archbishop […]

The Eucharistic Revival and Synodality

May we always have reverence for our Eucharistic Lord. EDITORIAL: Journeying together and encountering Christ are not opposing goals, but are interdependent — and unifying for the life of the Church.

4th Sunday after Pentecost: Ktisis

We continue our project of delving, albeit briefly, into the first reading for Sunday’s Holy Mass in the Vetus Ordo of the Roman Rite, the Epistle, this time from the Apostle to the Gentiles’ Letter to the Romans. Reminder: the readings of Mass have their didactic purpose for spiritual and moral instruction, but they are […]