Feasts or solemnities that prompt us to reflect on the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary also serve as reminders of the sacredness of motherhood. As Catholics, we know that Mary, our immaculate spiritual mother, […]

“I sent my children to Catholic school from kindergarten through college, and now they don’t practice the faith.” It’s painful as an educator to hear these frequent reports from frustrated parents, yet unsurprising when, for […]

In a June post at the website Where Peter Is, author Steven Millies, having ritually denounced the “senseless [Catholic] culture war quarrel” and taken another tiresome sideswipe at Bishop Robert Barron’s criticism of “beige Catholicism,” informed us that […]

Anti-Religious Rhetoric – “Violent attacks against Christian churches remained significantly elevated in the final year of the Biden administration, the conservative Family Research Council reported this week.”Attacks on churches surged during Biden years, new study […]

On January 8, 1815, General Andrew Jackson led his American troops to an unlikely victory over the British in the famous Battle of New Orleans. Two weeks later, General Jackson joined thousands of others at […]

Poetry is a human exercise and throughout human history has been one method people have used to connect to others and to God. Though readership of poetry in the United States has grown in recent […]

For decades now there has been a concerted effort by many Catholics to consider the concept of vocation in broader terms than merely the calling to priesthood, diaconate, and forms of consecrated virginity lived out […]