A little over a year ago, Father Jonathan Morris revealed on FOX to an adoring Martha MacCollum that he was forsaking the active ministry and had petitioned Pope Francis to return to the lay state. […]
A new book by Christian Browne, The Pearl of Great Price: Pius VI & the Sack of Rome (Arouca Press), is a historical play that tells the true story of the invasion of Rome by […]
The first term paper I ever wrote (in freshman year of high school) was on the Canadian system of funding faith-based schools. In the early 1980s (those halcyon days of the very pro-Catholic President Ronald […]
Editor’s note: The following is the Final Exhortation given on June 18, 2020, Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, for the Seminarian Days of the Diocese of Memphis. Today the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the […]
Note: The following homily was preached on June 18, 2020 for the Seminarian Days of the Diocese of Memphis. If you were to die tonight, how would you like your obituary to read? What would […]
Condensing forty-five pages of the Catechism into a brief reflection is a frustrating exercise, especially when the topic is the meaning of life in the Church. The approach here is not so much to summarize […]
Today we find ourselves in the wind-down to the novena to the Holy Spirit, in preparation for the great feast of Pentecost. What I would like to do today is to say a few words […]
As regular readers of CWR know, I have spent my entire priestly life and ministry in the Catholic school apostolate. I am proud of the Catholic schooling I received, and I am proud of what […]
Far be it for the National Catholic Distorter to let a good crisis go to waste. Presumably in honor of Our Lord’s Passion and Death on Good Friday, their readers were treated to one of […]
Editor’s note: This is the seventh and final essay in a series on The Seven Penitential Psalms. A complete list of the essays is at the bottom of this essay. 1 Hear my prayer, O Lord; […]
© Catholic World Report