Going to World Youth Day Lisbon With Marian Haste

© José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, CC BY-SA 3.0 An Our Lady of Fatima statue is seen in the Basílica da Estrela in Lisbon, Portugal. COMMENTARY: To be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of ebullient peers singing, laughing and praying in various languages provides an indelible lesson that the Catholic faith is a treasure bigger and […]

How do we read “the signs of the times”?

In the run-up to this fall’s “Synod on Synodality,” I’ve written several essays in this journal relevant to it. I’ve addressed the demand to “welcome” and what welcome has hitherto meant in the Church. I’ve […]

Shroud of Turin gets ‘true crime’ treatment in science-driven documentary

Filmmaker Robert Orlando, standing before a negative image of the Shroud of Turin, says he was prompted to investigate the purported burial cloth of Jesus in part because of a search to answer “big questions” about life and faith following the death of his father. / Courtesy of Nexus Media Napa, California, Jul 29, 2023 […]

We Really Are All in This Together

Kutsenko Volodymyr Ukrainian children are given food in the Polish city of Przemysl, Poland, after fleeing Ukraine after the Russian invasion. ‘Solidarity is an eminently Christian virtue. It practices the sharing of spiritual goods even more than material ones.’ (CCC 1948)

St. Martha Wang, Pray For Us!

Marco Ramerini A cross stands atop a cathedral in Dali, China St. Martha was beatified by Pope St. Pius X in 1909, and canonized by Pope St. John Paul II in 2000.