Holiness and the desperate need for saints “in between”
A new study released by the Pew Research Center indicates that 29% of Americans now self-identify as having no religious affiliation of any kind. And only 63% of Americans identify as Christians, which is 12% […]
What I’ve Learned by Adding (Imperfectly) Mental Prayer to My Day
Father Jacques Philippe with the cover of his book, ‘Time for God’ ‘Seek in reading and you will find in meditating; knock in mental prayer and it will be opened to you by contemplation.’ (CCC 2654)
Indian family flees America after Oregon teacher secretly pushes their daughter toward ‘transgender’ identity…
In June 2022, two Centennial Elementary School students in Olympia, Washington, disappeared. Their parents, Indian immigrants, had quietly driven them out of state, to Oregon, before they eventually decided to fly back to their former home country. No one in Olympia has seen the children since.
Learning from St. Thomas Aquinas, 750 years after his Death
Robin Franssen, 18, of Belgium, is a first-year philosophy student at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas. / Credit: Bénédicte Cedergren/EWTN Rome Newsroom, Jan 28, 2024 / 08:00 am (CNA). Hundreds of students travel annually to Rome… […]
Pope Francis: ‘The devil always takes away your freedom’
Pope Francis delivers the Sunday Angelus from the window of his study overlooking St. Peter’s Square, Jan. 28, 2024. / Credit: Vatican Media Vatican City, Jan 28, 2024 / 12:18 pm (CNA). Pope Francis warned on Sunday that the devil wants to “chain our souls” and enslave us with many temptations, while “Jesus came to […]
Pope Francis expressed his closeness with community after an attack on the Catholic church in Istanbul
By Michael Kelly (OSV News) — Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to the small Catholic community in Turkey after gunmen attacked a church during Sunday morning Mass Jan. 28, leaving at least one worshipper dead. The shooting occurred just before noon at the Santa Maria church in the Sariyer district of Istanbul, and was […]
Here are 5 of the strangest days in history, including a bizarre coincidence involving 2 Dennis the Menaces…
There have been 91,310 days in the last 250 years, but only a few of them stand out as singularly odd. Unexplained phenomena, surprising coincidences, and, in some cases, a strange quiet, don’t happen every day — especially on a massive scale.
Obey Christ For Abundant Life…
The people of Capernaum observed the authority and power of Jesus, “He commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him.” The demons are mere creatures, but Jesus Christ is Lord. Will we heed and obey him? According to Catholic exorcists, a good confession is more powerfully effective than an exorcism. This makes sense. It […]
ASK FATHER: How can Septuagesima and Sexagesima be “70th” and “60”? It doesn’t add up.
From a reader… QUAERITUR: I don’t get it. “Septuagesima” means “seventieth” and “sexagesima” means “sixtieth”, which are ten apart. But the Sundays are seven days apart. 10 isn’t 7. Is there an explanation? Here is something I’ve penned before. Roman … Read More →
WDTPRS – Septuagesima Sunday: Lent doesn’t sneak up on “trads”
On this coming Sunday, Holy Church begins to sing in a new key. We have come around, in the traditional calendar, to Pre-Lent. The “Gesima Sundays” have Roman Stations. Today we are at St. Lawrence “outside the walls”. Being in … Read More →