When G.K. Chesterton was received into the Catholic Church one hundred years ago, on Sunday, July 30, 1922, it was big news. Except it wasn’t. It didn’t quite qualify as “news” because nobody knew about […]
The Catholic Education Foundation is hosting its eighth annual seminar on the role of the priest in today’s Catholic school from July 12-14, 2022. The intended audience is bishops, priests, and seminarians and is based on […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached for the memorial of St. Louis Grignion de Montfort (April 28, 2022) at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City. Today the Church holds up […]
Long-awaited, “The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church” has finally arrived. It is a superb re-statement of traditional Catholic teaching on what the Sacred Liturgy calls “the mystery of faith.” Of course, […]
Many years ago, a play came out called “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” the point being that the life of such an athlete is unique and requires a certain style of personality and […]
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London, England, Jun 9, 2021 / 04:00 am (CNA).
Some of St. John Henry Newman’s best-loved words will be heard on Thursday as they have never been heard before.They will feature in a new work by the composer Si… […]
Maryvale: the name conjures up lovely images of gardens, a shrine surrounded by flowers, gentle hills in the background, perhaps some people praying and singing. Well, minus the background hills, and allowing for the bleakness […]
In 1864, in response to the novelist Charles Kingsley’s allegation in Macmillan’s Magazine that “Truth for its own sake was never a virtue with the Roman clergy” and that “Father Newman informs us that it […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City on the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of […]
Editor’s note: The following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., on the Solemnity of All Saints, November 1, 2019, at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York […]
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