Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Saltem Diebus Dominicis: 3rd Sunday of Lent – The Enemy

With this Sunday we enter, already, into the second part of Lent. The 20th century liturgical writer Pius Parsch (+1954) puts it in The Church’s Year of Grace, during the first two weeks prepare against attacks by the Prince of this world, the Devil and fallen angels, with the weapon of mortifications. On this Sunday […]

CVS and Walgreens to begin selling abortion pills this month

CNA—CVS and Walgreens, the two largest pharmacy chains in the country, announced on Friday that they will begin selling the abortion pill mifepristone this month. Martin Maloney, a media representative for Walgreens, told CNA that the chain would begin distributing the pills within the next week in “select locations” in New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, California… […]

Chemical abortion pill: U.S. bishops issue guide laying out dangers and concerns

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) published a document (Understanding Abortion Pills: Q & A on Chemical Abortions)  to explain its concerns about the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval and deregulation of a chemical abortion pill, which is the subject of an ongoing U.S. Supreme Court case. A lawsuit filed by the pro-life… […]

FSSP at a Crossroads after Papal Audience

PDF Button On that notable leap day of 2024, Pope Francis received Fr. Komorowski, the Superior General of the FSSP, along with the Superior of the District of France, Fr. Paul Joseph, and Fr. Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad. This meeting, shrouded in expectation, immediately prompted the traditionalist world to worry over […]

The right kind of work values workers

U.S. Catholic—As we rethink work post-pandemic, consider Catholic social teaching. Modern Catholic social thought is typically dated back to Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum (On Capital and Labor). It’s not that Catholicism had never dealt with social ethics before, of course, but the pope’s discussion marked a new level of reflection that considered… […]

Catholics express concern over eroding ‘brain death’ standards

CNA—A broad coalition of 151 Catholics including medical professionals, bioethicists, and scholars released a joint letter this past week expressing concern about new guidelines issued by a major neurological society regarding “brain death” — a hotly contested topic in the medical community and among people of faith. American Association of Neurology changes guidelines on brain… […]