Sr. Mary Hanah Doak is vocations director for the Religious Sisters of Mercy (RSM) of Alma, Michigan, which last September celebrated the 40th anniversary of its founding. The community settled in the Diocese of Saginaw, […]
Spontaneity that reflects good-heartedness is a highly attractive trait, but the spontaneity of self-indulgence is reckless and often cruel. Spontaneity of either kind can cause confusion and dismay. Pope Francis’ spontaneity is clearly of the […]
Disney is the latest corporation to announce an end to financial support for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) because of the Boy Scouts’ ban on openly gay adult Scout leaders. Joining former BSA sponsors—including […]
Below is the Vatican Radio’s transcript and translation of the Holy Father’s catechesis given today at his Wednesday general audience. Dear brothers and sisters! In recent catechesis, we examined the first three gifts of the […]
Editor’s note: View a map of all the locations mentioned in this article. When and where was the first Mass offered in America? No one living today knows the answer to this intriguing question. But we can […]
I have attended Mass in many places the world over, given how frequently my professional and academic duties require I travel, either to visit one of the University of Mary’s campuses worldwide where we have […]
At age 44, Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk leads the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the largest Eastern Church in communion with Rome. Having previously served as a seminary rector in L’viv and then as bishop for […]
Perhaps you’ve already heard the news that Pope Francis is a socialist and a communist, a rumor that was finally established as truth in his address yesterday to the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (or, […]
Cardinal Walter Kasper, noted German prelate and theologian, has been on a book tour in the States in support of his most recent work, Mercy: The Essence of the Gospel and the Key to Christian […]
Principalities and Powers: Spiritual Combat 1942-1943 (St. Augustine’s Press, 2013) is an unconventional approach to the Second World War by an exceptionally gifted and fascinating man, Rev. George William Rutler, for whom writing is one of several avocations—or, […]
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