As I posted yesterday I'm going on a silent Ignatian retreat this week from Sunday evening (tonight) until Saturday morning, July 25th...

In 1972 Brian Moore wrote a short novel titled Catholics  about a remote abbey on an island off the coast of Ireland. [ online here ] It...

During my middle school years, my parents rented a lovely home on Juniper Lane in Falls  Church, Virginia. The street got its name from an e...

My husband and I are beekeepers. During the Spring we check the hives regularly to try to prevent swarming and keep pests under control. On ...

When one examines a crisis, it's important to know exactly what that crisis consists of. We know there's a crisis in the Church; you...

It's a sad reality today that many in both secular and religious society are "weaponizing language." We see it in the Democrat...

Bishop Strickland: The Church is facing a ‘real emergency’ Every Texan knows this story: Long before we knew about politics, before we knew ...

I recently came across the quote above from Cardinal Manning. Frankly, I never quite trust anything I see in a Facebook meme, so I looked fo...

I double post these days because of Blogger's censorship. Check out my free Substack website. I'm reading the recent document on the...

What if someone predicted accurately what would happen next week or next month. If it was something common, "The sun will rise next Thu...

The Crisis in the Church series is well worth watching. This is one of my favorite episodes.  

Francis imposes cognitive dissonance on the flock by abusing his authority! Blind obedience is no virtue. Know what true obedience demands. ...

Today is the feast of St. Lawrence of Brindisi , a Capuchin friar who died in 1619. He had a great gift of preaching and also spoke Hebrew, ...

Cardinal Wojtyla and Cardinal Slipyj both ordained clandestinely without permission from the Vatican violating canon law. I'm currently ...

As persecution against religion increases, will we respond like the early Christian martyrs? Can anyone with eyes not see the crisis in the ...

What's more effective - hacking at the branches or getting to the "root of the problem?"   Let's ask some questions releva...

by Edward Kryn As a theologian Pope Benedict XVI looking at the fruits of the SSPX (Matt. 7:15-20) and bearing in mind his preoccupation wit...

The motto of Pope St. Pius X was "To restore all things in Christ." Bring it on, Lord! By Greg Diefenderfer Looking back over the ...

Editor's Comment: What confusing times we live in, eh! As someone once said to me, "We are all doing our lousy best." While I ...

Summer Squall, Winslow Homer 1904 Editor's note: Check out the LifeSiteNews article linked below and Fr. Tom's commentary on it that...