When a Wedding Veil and Mourning Veil Merge
This vale of tears is full of sorrows but also joys. Sometimes they come together in ways only understood by the Almighty.
A Shepherd in a Land of Martyrs
Fr. Alex Mugalaasi, the 41-year-old spiritual formator for Uganda’s five major seminaries, lets Our Lady illuminate his path to spiritually form Uganda’s future priests, some of whom will one day serve in parishes in the United States.
Will Bishops Give the Surge of Catholics Ephesus—or the City of Man?
For young people, “dialogue”—U.S. bishops’ favorite buzzword—has become an eight-letter vulgarity. They’ve been choked, nearly to death, by the drowning tide of moral pus—the dialogue-minefields of LGBTQ+, BLM, and DEI, etc.—while few bishops helped them to break the surface.
Cleveland’s Echo on the Edge of Darkness and Light: “Love Will End Abortion”
An unlikely pairing—pro-life whites and inspired blacks—have merged as allies in front of Ohio’s deadliest abortuary.
The Third Rail Our Hierarchy Avoids
Few clergy will address, in specificity, the broadening third rail of LGBT ideologies, that each day seem to add to our multifaceted civilizational moral collapse.
The Day God Saved Me Through My Hero
The slow, silent and mostly invisible hand of God working in our lives sometimes punches through the veil to let us know, “I AM always with you.”
Elegy of Darkness and Light in a Country Churchyard
Msgr. Wells’ legacy and the unmarked slave graves at Sacred Heart stir the sensus fidei, urging bishops to focus on saving souls over gestures in a faith-fading world.
The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our Priests
A type of bishopric anti-fatherhood has led countless priests in America to live out vocations tainted by fear, torment, and silent despair.
A Cajun Priest and the Acadian Solution to Soft Priests in a Soft Church
Fr. Michael Champagne grew up sweating it out alongside French-speaking tough Cajuns who memorialized their Acadian forebears through the grind of raw Catholic lives.
“In the Name of Every Man Who Hurt You, Forgive Me”
The haunting 2023 film, “The Sound of Freedom,” was a small window into a world made up of unspeakable human horrors. The coming sequel is sure to let more light into that darkness.
Vianney, Plump, and Meyer—Indiana’s Miracle Men
Knowing he could not simply keep doing what had been done, a young priest tried something different: an imitation of something old.
The Curé d’Ars to Confront Our Lost Culture
The Catholic Church needs a hero now. Nothing less will do. Pope Leo must lead a new crusade to search out the lost lambs and bring them back.
The Miracle That Grew From the Ashes of 2018
One simple priest answered the call to lay down his life for God’s suffering flock, and we are reminded of what His love looks like.
A Prophet Among Bishops
As U.S. bishops gathered at their annual meeting, Bishop Strickland stood outside and decided to pick a fight; he confronted the expanding Babylon.
The Descent into the Mist of Catholic Writing
Catholic authors rarely speak of the untamed countryside in them. Their job is to write, not explain how. But their stories often come from low-clouded and cold places in them.
The Whisky Priest and Jairus’ Daughters
Like Graham Greene’s fugitive priest stumbling from place to place through the night to calm the frightened in the faith-starved homes of Tabasco, Bishop Strickland now moves on the peripheries.
Arm Wrestling the World for God
The solution to the Church’s distress lies right before us. Will spiritual leaders and laity choose to see it—or reject it because of the cost?
Courage: The Sage the Church Needs
Star ESPN sportscaster Sage Steele picked an unwinnable fight against a leviathan—and won. But she died, too. Her way is one the Church must follow.
Facing the Whirlwind with a Wiseman
Perhaps the Catholic Church seems under collapse because it has forsaken the prayer of its archetypes. Aged Englishman and mystical theologian David Torkington would say as much.