What was the Lord doing on Thursday of Holy Week?
According to the Synoptic Gospels, sundown of Holy Thursday ushered in the Passover. Later on this evening, the Lord will celebrate the Passover meal with His disciples. Indeed, this is an evening of affliction for Jesus. Much transpires at the Last Supper that is emblematic of our human foibles and sinful tendencies, but thanks be to God...
Pope Francis at Chrism Mass: The devil tempts priests with ‘hidden idols’...
How to convert Celsius to Fahrenheit without doing any math...
‘The Fighting Sullivans’ (1944) is a movie that lovingly portrays the Catholic faith and the happiness of practicing it...
Released in 1944, and set in the period between the 1920s to the 1940s, The Fighting Sullivans is a true story about an Irish family in Waterloo, Iowa. The Sullivan parents were blessed with six children — five boys and a girl. In their service during World War II, the Sullivan boys made military history by serving together on the same ship...
This is what popular music in Ancient Rome sounded like...
A postgame press conference after Daniel didn’t get eaten by the lions...
What was the Lord doing on Wednesday of Holy Week?
Bishop Georg Bätzing is the head of the German bishops’ conference. Which makes what’s happening in his Diocese of Limburg all the more alarming...
“The focus is too much on homosexual men!” said Eric Tilch at a panel discussion in Frankfurt last Wednesday hosted by the Diocese of Limburg — the bishopric headed by Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German Catholic bishops’ conference. But Tilch, a Church youth education officer, wasn’t protesting against the homosexual agenda or seeking to uphold the Church’s teaching on marriage and the family...
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As buzz continues around a possible second meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, many within Orthodoxy are calling for Kirill to be tried by church authorities for supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Priests of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate are collecting signatures for an appeal to the Council of Primates of the Ancient Eastern Churches for “a lawsuit against Patriarch Kirill...
Why you shouldn’t snap the ends off asparagus — and why you should overcook it...
Francis, and Francis alone, is the pope. You may lament this, but it is reality. ‘Benevacantism’ is scandalous and pointless...
It is not news that Pope Francis has, over the years, made a number of theologically problematic statements (about Holy Communion for those living in adulterous relationships, capital punishment, and other matters) and done a number of problematic things (such as reversing Benedict’s motu proprio on the Latin Mass). I’ve addressed these controversies many times before and am not going to rehash it all here...
What was the Lord doing on Tuesday of Holy Week?
Report: Becciu sent payments to an Australian tech firm for domain name registration...
What was the Lord doing on Monday of Holy Week?
No, Virginia, Pope Francis can’t play Santa Claus on Ukraine...
Recently, The Economist published a fascinating map of the world indicating which nations are anti-Russian in the Ukraine crisis and which either lean to the Russian position or wholly support it. The good news for the pro-Ukraine, anti-Russian coalition is that it numbers 131 countries which, together, account for 70 percent of the world’s GDP...
A German conflagration may engulf the Church within the next year, and there is no fire extinguisher...
This Holy Saturday the entire Catholic Church will turn its eyes toward Benedict XVI. It will be his 95th birthday and his liturgical birthday. Both coincide this year for the last time in the long life of Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (unless he lives until his 106th birthday in 2033). In 1927, April 16 fell on Holy Saturday, as it does again this year...
Internet Catholics have been talking a lot about “integralism” lately. So what is integralism, anyway?
One of the more talked about phenomena in American Catholicism in recent years has been the rising popularity of “integralism” among a section of Catholic commentators and academics. The term can seem to mean different things to different people, and lead to calls for different, sometimes competing, visions of the relationships between faith and public affairs or Church and state...
College enters fray with bishop over gay pride, BLM flags at Jesuit school in Massachusetts...
Raising Father Stu: On-screen dad Mel Gibson and real-life dad Bill Long discuss beloved priest...
I confess: I’ve already seen Father Stu, the much anticipated film scheduled for release this week from Sony Pictures. I’ve seen it twice, in fact – and I loved it! So when I was invited to talk with Mel Gibson, who plays Father Stu’s father in the movie, and with Bill Long, Stu’s real-life father, I jumped at the chance...
Pope’s Wednesday Audience: ‘Armed Aggression’ Is ‘an Outrage Against God’...
Francis and Kirill: A meeting on the margins?
In the nearly two months since the invasion of Ukraine took steam, Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill has planted himself ever more firmly behind President Vladimir Putin’s war. With accounts of war crimes, massacres, and even acts of genocide emerging in the wake of the Russian withdrawal from the Kyiv region, Kirill finds himself increasingly isolated among the global Christian community...
The real Father Stu, ‘Webmaster Becciu,’ and John Oliver’s blackmail...
If you’ve been following the long, complicated story of Pillar reader Cardinal Angelo Becciu, now on trial for corruption and abuse of office, you probably have questions about the two million Australian dollars he authorized to be wired Down Under during the criminal trial of Cardinal George Pell. Most people do. Well, Italian media reported last week that the money might have been sent on behalf of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications...
How a mapping error left this American city under the control of Canada...
Angry trans activists are melting down on Twitter over a lunch J.K. Rowling just hosted ...
I offer this to you not assuming you are particularly interested in politics over the pond, but because it’s a guide and a warning for the American scene. There are people talking out loud about these issues, articulating them clearly and refusing to be rolled over and gaslight by “be kind.” I will have more about the US political situation...
There is a connection between Divine Mercy and the sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago...
How to obtain a plenary indulgence during Holy Week 2022...
Aunt Agnes has returned! The correct thing for Holy Week...
Archdiocese of Curitiba sides with politician accused of desecrating church in Brazil...
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