Following the death of Pope Francis on Easter Monday, much attention has turned to the selection of his successor. The next pope has a tall task before him: He must be able to offer a definitive spiritual vision for the…
The Catholic Church has suffered the passing of another Pontiff. Early on Easter Monday, Pope Francis passed away at the age of 88, according to Vatican authorities. The Pope was hospitalized on Feb. 14, over concerns about worsening bronchitis, and…
I was awakened early this morning by my wife informing me that Pope Francis has died. “Wow,” was my instant verbal reaction. I grabbed my bedside rosary ring and did a Divine Mercy Chaplet for his soul. It was probably…
One of my favorite Bob Dylan songs is “Tangled Up in Blue,” in part because of this set of lines, both literary and spiritual: She lit a burner on the stove And offered me a pipe. “I thought you’d never…
Young men are simply not signing up to become priests — certainly not in the numbers that they used to. According to the Vatican’s Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae, the past 12 years have seen a continuing decline in the number of…
Now that he’s back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump is shaming his predecessor — the self-proclaimed “Catholic” Joe Biden — and once again helming one of the most pro-Catholic presidential administrations in history. To honor the Catholic liturgical…
Lent, the season of penitence, is the preparation of the soul to accompany the Lord in the Passion. It begins now, and Catholics are currently asked by the Church not to eat meat on Ash Wednesday and Fridays, and also…
La humanidad es el único dios totalmente falso. [Humanity is the only totally false god.] — Nicolás Gómez Dávila I Imagine waking up from a coma, or returning from your rest-cure after a nasty bout with Influenza B, and finding…
The thousand or so citizens of Vatican City remain exclusively Catholic. If the smallest country in the world can decide to limit citizenship on the basis of religion without committing a collective sin, why cannot other countries restrict immigration for…
