Many diocesan seminaries will not accept older applicants to the priesthood, and often with good reason. An older man can have greater difficulty in meeting the demands of the priesthood or giving up the freedom or […]
I don’t normally write about mommy issues. As my day job, I spend enough time thinking about childrearing that once I’m off the clock, it is the last thing I care ruminate over. However, the […]
As I’ve been making dinner this week, I’ve been listening to an NPR investigative series into televangelists and their millions, almost none of which, it turns out, are scrutinized by the IRS or anybody else […]
Msgr. Walter R. Rossi, Rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, notes that “During his lifetime, Blessed John Paul II visited this National Shrine on several occasions as Cardinal Archbishop […]
Tens of thousands of people assembled in St. Peter’s Square for Pope Francis’ Palm Sunday Mass yesterday, many bearing traditional palms and olive branches. Below is the full text of Pope Francis’ Palm Sunday homily, […]
Few movies can be at once savage and sweet; fewer still while straddling more than one genre. Billy Wilder’s The Apartment (1960) manages all of the above. Dubbed a comedy at its debut, this study […]
In 1965, more than 50 percent of Americans were active members of mainline Protestant churches. Today that number is down to under 10 percent. Meanwhile, Catholicism in America continues to enjoy moderate success, primarily due […]
Readings: • Mt. 21:1-11 • Is 50:4-7 • Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 • Phil 2:6-11 • Mt 26:14-27:66 “For the infant Church, ‘Palm Sunday’ was not a thing of the past,” wrote Pope Benedict […]
(Information Resource of the UGCC, April 8, 2014). The Synod of Bishops of the Major Archeparchy of Kyiv-Halych published, on April 4, 2014, an Instruction on the conduct of priests of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic […]
Friday morning was a busy one for Pope Francis; in addition to his usual weekday Mass in the Santa Marta chapel, he also addressed gatherings of the International Catholic Child Bureau—a children’s rights organization—and of […]
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