Over the past decade, my wife and I have been privileged to go on far-from-home pilgrimages, including Montreal/Quebec, EWTN (Alabama), Italy/Vatican City, the Holy Land,
In the mid-eighteen hundreds, English Catholicism finally emerged, staggering but alive, from the dark days of persecution. Some Catholics were sceptical, dubious of the newly
In October 1917, seventy thousand people in a small town in Portugal called Fatima saw the sun “dancing” and other inexplicable phenomena. The event, which
The West is flourishing in the heyday of its technological and material power in very peaceful times. Yet, I know what life is like under
In the years since the Reformation, Catholics in England went from a sizable chunk of the population to a persecuted minority. Then, as I wrote
Sacred Heart Major Seminary (SHMS) is offering a new, free, online course entitled “A Church in Crisis: Pathways Forward.” The course is set to begin
This is about a man who born into slavery in Missouri. He went on to become the first African American from the United States ordained
And if some of the branches be broken off [i.e. the Jews], and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and
In previous columns, I have written about the terrible times that destroyed the medieval Catholic Church in England, and I will write about them again.
Before the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) Catholics approached Ecumenism (Christian Unity) with an apparent negativity. Non-Catholics were seen as in error. They needed to correct
Archbishop Fulton Sheen remarked in The Priest is Not His Own “A good priest lives for his vocation, an avaricious priest lives on his vocation.”
The person you love most can cut you the deepest. Anyone who has been married for a minute knows this. As a spouse, you have literally
It seems strange to think of doctrine as spiritual. The topic of doctrine calls to mind the Magisterium, councils, and heresy but really, while doctrine
There have been over ten thousand Saints in our church’s history. Each of them devoted their lives to serving our Lord, and are an icon
Since the days when Christ and His apostles walked the earth, His Church has experienced a rich history. Competent teachers, authors, lectures, presentations, and the
History involves change. Change can be sudden, it can be slow, but like taxes and death, change is guaranteed. Working out how and why it
Rustling paper welcomed yet another useless ballpoint pen I’d flung into the trash. One dog lifted a sleepy eyebrow, the other too old to be
We know that the Church honors saints because they give us an example of how to follow the will of God and seek perfection, even
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As soon as you read or hear those names, it’s likely your thoughts turn to one of the most terrible moments of
Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian (G.K. Chesterton). The first time my husband and I
I came across a feature story in one of our leading newspapers detailing how Filipinos can get started with another 500 years of Christianity. It
Recently I had the privilege of visiting my community’s mission in Luxembourg. The country of Luxembourg itself is quite small; thirty minutes suffice to drive
