Our friends at the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter have some mission trips coming up in Mexico and Peru, and they’ve asked me to help spread the word before registration closes. I’ve written before about my own experiences as a Catholic missionary in the 1990s, which I would have to say were among the most…
My friend Michael Hichborn of The Lepanto Institute did a podcast about a month ago that I just listened to this afternoon. It is a striking reflection on the parallels between the actions of Judas as recorded in the four gospels and the crisis in the Church in 2017. I highly recommend it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv7IzFiD-qk?rel=0
I usually only publish correspondence with readers that is in some way inspiring or uplifting, or illustrates an important point. But I received an email a couple of days ago that surprised me. And since our contact page has a clear disclaimer — “Please note: we reserve the right to share or publish any correspondence…
Yesterday’s letter from a seminarian about the trials and hopes of training to be a priest in 2017 received a very positive response. Among those we heard from was another U.S. seminarian — from a completely different diocese — who emailed us to share his own thoughts. He graciously gave me permission to share them with…
(Image Credit: Lena Klimkeit Picture Alliance/DPA) All sorts of rumors are now swirling about current events in the Church: Cardinal Burke has been cancelling engagements. Why? Cardinal Muller has resigned from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Was he forced or was it voluntary? A formal correction of the Pope has already been…
Just a quick note: some of you have written to me to express your concern about some inappropriate advertisements showing up near the comments. I share your concern. Disqus has been a good, robust platform for managing our comments. It provides many of our users a single login associated with other sites, gives us pretty…
(Image courtesy of MarkNowakowski.com) Attention readers in Virginia (and surrounding areas)! It’s late notice, but I wanted to pass along an invitation to attend an evening of sacred music ancient and new. Our own writer and composer, Dr. Mark Nowakowski, is currently in the Old Dominion, working with the baroque ensemble “Three Notch’d Road” on his…
It would seem that Malta has become the battleground where some of the deepest divisions in the Church have been playing out. From Cardinal Burke’s exile to the role of Patronus of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta to the landmark Maltese bishops’ guidelines on Amoris Laeititia to the battle that’s been going on between the order…
Periodically, I receive complaints from people who say that they can’t find an article they just saw in the last day or so. The reason for this is because our featured content section — the large image at the top of the website — is a slider, designed to hold ten articles at a time. As…
Earlier this week, I heard from friends in Italy about a rumored Vatican postage stamp that would feature none other than the great-grand heresiarch himself, Martin Luther. Unable to make time to dig into it myself — and having heard some trepidation that it was, perhaps, a false report — I let it slip off my…
(Image: the opening procession of the 2015 Nellie Gray Mass) We wanted to bring your attention to an upcoming event of some significance later this month. The Paulus Institute for the Propagation of Sacred Liturgy is once again hosting the annual Nellie Gray Mass in remembrance and for the repose of the soul of pro-life…
