Distribution Service: Fathom Entertainment MPAA Rating: R (violence, profanity, intensity) Reel Rating: 3 out of 5 reels Producer, writer, and director Yelena Popovic, who is Eastern Orthodox, is a wonderful oddity in Hollywood. She grew […]

On February 4, the Discalced Carmelites and the dioceses of Avignon and Rodez, France, observe the feast of a relatively new Blessed of the Church, Fr. Marie-Eugene of the Child Jesus, OCD. The future Blessed […]

There’s a steak house on East 50th Street in midtown Manhattan, to which Cardinal Timothy Dolan and I would sometimes walk for dinner after a pre-prandial or two in his sitting room. The restaurant was less […]

In Defense of Bishop Barron (The Fourth Watch): “Despite attacks from a certain segment of Catholic commentators, Bishop Barron is a model of how to be a good bishop in times of turmoil.” Settling accounts […]

A controversy that reached the United States Supreme Court twice and may be returning for a third round concerns state-mandated public postings of the Ten Commandments. In the most recent litigation involving the Commandments, the […]

Federal officials are investigating after a Los Angeles-area Catholic school was targeted in a major act of vandalism that included the beheading of a statue of the Blessed Mother. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights […]

Readings: Mal 3:1-4 Psa 24:7, 8, 9, 10 Heb 2:14-18 Lk 2:22-40 The Gospel of Luke contains many details and stories about the infancy of Jesus not found elsewhere. Today’s Gospel reading is one such […]

The easy answer is no, Ellen is not a saint. Ellen Organ, also known as Little Nellie of Holy God, has not been canonized by the Catholic Church. It does not appear that her canonization […]