When Sister Mary Diana, 83, of Springfield, Oregon, became a consecrated hermit almost 40 years ago, she was among the first in the US. “There were some, but not like what you’ve got now,” said […]
Readings: • Ex 17:8-13 • Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 • 2 Tm 3:14-4:2 • Lk 18:1-8 “But when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth? “ That direct and challenging question […]
Dr. Joseph P. Swain is associate professor of music at Colgate University and author of several books about music, including A Historical Dictionary of Sacred Music (2006), Harmonic Rhythm: Analysis and Interpretation (Oxford, 2002), and Musical Languages (Norton, […]
“The danger of a dictatorship of opinion is growing, and anyone who doesn’t share the prevailing opinion is excluded, so that even good people no longer dare to stand by (such) nonconformists. Any future anti-Christian dictatorship would […]
Dear Wormwood, Your uncle is, as you know, a little—how shall we say?—distracted right now, and as I am considered something of an expert when it comes to Christians of the Catholic variety, I’ve been […]
… of the USCCB are: • Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of New Orleans • Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., of Philadelphia • Bishop Blase J. Cupich of Spokane, Washington • Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo […]
MPAA Rating, PG-13 USCCB Rating, A-III Reel Rating, Alfred Hitchcock said that movies “are just normal life with all the boring parts taken out.” Paul Greengrass, director of the newly released […]
Recent headlines give the impression that the Catholic Church may soon change her discipline about divorce and remarriage. Pope Francis, in his interview with a Jesuit confrere, sympathetically described a woman who after a failed […]
Amid speculation that next year’s Synod of Bishops will discuss the possibility of allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to receive the Eucharist, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has published […]
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