Essay
Padre Pio: A “Second St. Francis” for our troubled times
This month marks the 100th anniversary of Padre Pio’s reception of the stigmata on September 20, 1918, and the 50th anniversary of his death on […]
Articles by Father Seán Connolly
The Dispatch
The unspoken message of heaven at Knock
The enigma of the apparition at Knock was its silence. […]
Features
“Zeal for thy house”: A young priest’s reflections on scandal in the Church
The world showed me all the ways there are to fall, but when I discovered the Church, I found the one way there is to […]
Features
How one parish commemorated the 50th anniversary of Humanae vitae
Talks by Father Donald Haggerty, Peter Kreeft, and Theresa Bonopartis helped attendees of the “Humanae Vitae at 50” conference the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Our Lady […]
Analysis
A voice crying in the wilderness: On the 50th anniversary of “Humanae Vitae”
Pope Paul VI stood firm in the midst of the moral permissiveness which came under the guise of “freedom” in the 1960s, and boldly proclaimed […]
Essay
Holy Week: A biblical chronology and liturgical guide
“St. Athanasius calls Easter ‘the Great Sunday’ and the Eastern Churches call Holy Week ‘the Great Week.’ The mystery of the Resurrection, in which Christ […]
The Dispatch
The College of Holy Cross crusades for political correctness, not truth and reason
It is appalling how little those in Catholic higher education think of the persecution of Christians in the Middle East as opposed to their endless […]
The Dispatch
70th miracle of Lourdes affirmed by the Church
Of the 7,000 cases of unexplained cures that have been recorded at Lourdes, only the 70th was formally declared by the Church to be miraculous […]
Interview
The “crowning jewel” of America’s Catholic church
An interview with Msgr. Walter Rossi on the completion of the Trinity Dome at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception […]
Essay
Hope and mercy and the “Miracle of the Sun”
“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph,” Our Lady promised at Fatima 100 years ago. […]