Yesterday, I asked for your prayers for a little boy named Isaac who had suffered inexplicable seizures four several hours and had to be heavily sedated and intubated. Yesterday, his doctors determined the culprit — viral meningitis — and began treatment. This is Isaac today: His mother writes: Friday morning update: since coming off the ventilator…
Today, we’d like to ask your prayers for some friends and supporters of OnePeterFive, Mike and Annie Norton, and their son Isaac. Annie writes: Friends and dear ones. I know that many are off FB today for Lent but asking for any and all prayers for our Isaac. [Yesterday] morning we heard a thud from…
Over at the recently re-activated (and re-named) blog, What’s Up With Francis-Church, my pal Hilary White returns to her years’ long theme, “Novusordoism Isn’t Catholicism,” with a post on where Mother Angelica went wrong when she declared war against the American Catholic establishment in 1993. She begins with a video clip of a famous episode of Mother Angelica Live!…
Our first podcast of 2016 is available, and today we talk about the Jubilee Year of Mercy that is now fully underway. What is Mercy? What does it mean? How should we look for it or apply it in our own lives? Listen here.
It’s the most dreaded time of year again for Americans: tax season. At the end of January, we sent out year-end statements to our donors via email if they’re claiming deductions. Printed copies are on their way out via snail mail for those who did not provide an email address. If you did not receive a…
The latest papal video is out. Hot on the heels of last month’s paean to religious indifferentism, we get another blast of immanentism from the Vatican, which has apparently rebranded itself as a non-denominational ecology and social-justice driven NGO. Yes. The Church teaches stewardship of creation. You’ll get no dispute from me. But it also…
In a recent article in Homiletic & Pastoral Review, some odd questions are raised about the use of liturgical Latin: Is it possible that the Traditional Latin Mass, though beautiful sounding Latin, merely makes one feel good, but lacks the intent necessary for the words to be properly labeled as communication of love of God? Or do…
Embed from Getty Images Cardinal Zen, the 84-year-old Catholic prelate who has long symbolized the struggle between the authentic and state-sanctioned versions of Catholicism in Communist China, has been in the news twice in the past month. This week, he offered a TLM in Cebu City, Philippines: A Traditional Latin Mass offered by retired Hong Kong…
Yesterday, Pope Francis addressed the Italian Committee on Bioethics, saying that they should take up the challenge of countering today’s “throwaway culture” which “takes on many forms, including treating human embryos as disposable material, as well as sick and elderly people approaching the end”. The Pope also asked them to harmonise standards and norms in the…
There have been any number of stories about the groups who, having attended this year’s March for Life, got stuck going home on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The most popular story concerns an altar made out of snow, upon which Mass was celebrated, right there, on the side of the highway. But the one I found…
La Stampa‘s “Vatican Insider” section is reporting that Vincenzo Cardinal Paglia, President of the Pontifical Council on the Family, announced the impending release of Pope Francis’ post-synodal exhortation at a course on the family in Portugal this week. The Italian cardinal said he was certain that the Pope’s text will focus on a Catholic Church that “ventures out”…
