Note: This homily was preached on December 6, 2024, the memorial of St. Nicholas, at the Church of the Holy Innocents, New York City. I would like to dedicate my homily this evening to the […]
By now, most readers will have heard about the whiplash emanating from the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, as Bishop Shawn McKnight’s decree of October 28 on liturgical music was revoked by November 5. The original document arose from […]
On Sunday, September 29, Pope Francis concluded his apostolic visit to Belgium with a Mass at the King Beaudoin Stadium. There were about 40,000 in attendance, a drop in the bucket for a country that claims […]
Editor’s note: Reverend Nicholas L. Gregoris, 52, of the Priestly Society of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, passed away unexpectedly on August 21, 2024. A contributor to Catholic World Report, he had also written for […]
Growing up at the Jersey Shore, I have always felt a particular affinity for the many passages in the New Testament that talk about lakes, rivers, seas, and boats; I suspect you many Floridians would […]
In 1992, I commissioned the first public opinion poll through George Gallup on belief in the Holy Eucharist, revealing that fewer than 30% of practicing Catholics held to the full truth of our Eucharistic faith. […]
Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus is so central to a healthy biblical spirituality that we don’t acknowledge this divine love only once a year; thanks to the apparitions of Our Lord to St. […]
Note: The following essay is adapted from an Address to the Curia of the Diocese of Charleston delivered on April 25, 2024. If we take our time-machine back fifty years ago—or maybe only forty—I suspect […]
By now, unless you live under a rock or gave up all media for Lent, you have heard of the debacle that played out at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York (“America’s parish church”) on […]
What is this strange fascination with ashes? By day’s end, in this Church of the Holy Innocents three blocks north of Macy’s in Midtown Manhattan, priests will have imposed ashes on the foreheads of thousands […]
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