How can Catholics most help the world? The obvious answer is that they would help most if they became saints. If you as a Catholic want to “make a difference,” cultivate sanctity and wholehearted love […]
It is no easy thing to sum up the thought of a man whose academic and ecclesial career spans some of the most tumultuous and epochal recent historical events in Church and world, whose written […]
Probably all of us have had the experience of finding ourselves halfway through a meal and realizing that we hadn’t been paying attention what we were eating: how it tasted, how it went down, or […]
The relation between ontology and history, writes Joseph Ratzinger, is “the fundamental crisis of our age.”1 It is the pressing question of contemporary theology, a question that Ratzinger repeatedly queries. In dense prose he argues […]
Author’s preliminary note: When I was invited to make an address in our diocese on the Eucharistic revival, I dusted off old class lecture notes about the “five dimensions of the Eucharist” – and I […]
Two wonky stories out of the Vatican in the space of a week may give casual observers more than ample occasion for head scratching. They may also give more than a passing impression that Pope […]
It seems a bit of a firestorm has erupted and is spreading of late, whereby some bishops have forbidden their priests to offer Holy Mass “Ad Orientem,” that is, facing liturgical (east or the tabernacle), […]
Until the 1960s, Catholics worshipped ad orientem, with priest and congregation facing the East during Mass. Originally Christians celebrated Mass before daybreak Sunday morning with the rising sun serving as a symbol of Christ’s resurrection […]
Pope Francis meets participants in an international training course for liturgical celebrations in Catholic dioceses on Jan. 20, 2023 / Vatican Media
Vatican City, Jan 21, 2023 / 05:10 am (CNA).
Pope Francis on Friday encouraged diocesan leader… […]
Liberalism and Religion – “The Notre Dame Law Review hosted its second symposium of the academic year on November 11 in Biolchini Hall of Law. [The symposium] revolved around the theme of ‘Liberalism, Christianity, and […]
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