Marriage and the Eucharistic Revival
This Sunday we mark the 40th anniversary of World Marriage Day, which celebrates the marriage between a man and a woman as the foundation...
Repairing the relationship between priests and bishops
On October 19, the results of the National Survey of Catholic Priests were released by The Catholic Project and the Department of Sociology the...
Responding adequately and effectively to mass killings
The list of deadly mass shootings continues to grow. The names of Tulsa, Uvalde, Buffalo, Boulder, El Paso, Virginia Beach, Thousand Oaks, Pittsburgh, Santa...
Responding to our vocation as peacemakers
As we witness the appalling images of death and destruction from Ukraine and many — including some national leaders — behave as if they’re...
Daring to do all we can
In the epic Lauda Sion Salvatorem Gospel Sequence he wrote for the inaugural celebration of Corpus Christi in 1264, and still used today, St....
The vocational key to ongoing Eucharistic Revival
The center of the Eucharistic Revival, the three-year initiative of the Church in the United States, is obviously and appropriately the Eucharistic Jesus, the...
Is foul language necessary to share the faith credibly?
One of the unfortunate controversies about Mark Wahlberg’s new movie “Father Stu,” especially in Catholic circles, concerns the movie’s heavy use of foul language.
One...
A post-pandemic time for Ecclesial assessment
On August 11, the Centers for Disease Control loosened most of its Covid-19 guidelines, and many other national, state and local governments, institutions and...
Waukesha: No revenge
This past Sunday Pope Francis said after leading the Angelus, “today we also remember all road traffic victims: we pray for them and we...
Deacons today
On June 19, Pope Francis met with the permanent deacons of the Diocese of Rome, along with their families. His words are a good...