5+ hour, 9+ min ago  (388+ words) How many souls are there for whom salvation is less than a half-minute away! If only, that is, they allow themselves to be awakened from the sleep of sin long enough to be surprised by grace....

4+ hour, 59+ min ago  (90+ words) The sign of good Catholics would be, first and foremost, how they tried to love God with their whole minds and hearts, with their whole bodies and souls, and with their whole strength....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago  (920+ words) As this galloping New Orthodoxy captures young heart after young heart, the Fr. Thomas Reeses of the spent Society of Jesus rage as they raise their clenched fists. Ever reliable, Fr. Thomas Reese, S. J. , seldom disappoints." This former editor of America…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1436+ words) I will not rehearse the theological disputes here. You are an intelligent man, and you can do your reading. I will only ask you to consider the charity of your patron, St. Augustine. I must confess that I have never…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago  (1606+ words) A recent reading from the Acts of the Apostles brought back the memory of an image from a book of stories I used to pull from the blue bookshelf in my childhood bedroom. It showed a small village in a…...

1+ week, 5+ hour ago  (522+ words) We have more now, even among those who consider themselves poor, than even royalty of previous generations could have dreamt of. But we have replaced material destitution with spiritual poverty. Some of the erroneous ways of viewing children and familial…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (1082+ words) While many voices scramble to explain (or explain away) the surge of young people entering the Church, they're ignoring the most obvious cause, namely, the supernatural First Cause. As the number of adult baptisms grows, many Catholics rejoice in the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (768+ words) Venerable Rose Hawthorne, whose cause for canonization was opened in 2003, is my heroine not only because she lived a life of heroic virtue but because she brought me back to the Catholic Faith. For 125 years, Dominican Sisters belonging to an…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (392+ words) While an act may violate the requirement for a pontifical mandate, it does not necessarily juridically constitute a rupture of communion or schism. The society defends itself against any accusation of schism and, relying on all traditional theology and the…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (462+ words) Without an interior life of love, prayer, sacrifice, and repentance, even sound doctrine can't stop the moral collapse and spiritual bankruptcy in the Church. I have just finished reading an excellent symposium written by contemporary Catholic Scholastic Theologians. Each, in…...