In light of the concept and reality of “tremendous trifles” — as resonantly presented (and variously illustrated) by G.K. Chesterton himself — we are now encouraged to add one of Hilaire Belloc’s own evocative essays for our consideration. Belloc’s presentation … Continue reading
Category: Catholic Living
Juarez, Mexico: City of Death Transformed by Perpetual Adoration
I visited Ciudad Juarez while in El Paso, Texas, back in the early 1980s. It was a very depressing place. The cathedral was a masonic-looking block of concrete with a few small, scattered, and figureless stained glass windows. It was … Continue reading
Salesian ‘Angel of the Lepers’ Dies at 102
AsiaNews: In a remote corner of Coloane Island (Macau), there was a leper colony abandoned by everyone. The despair was such that some, among the hundreds of lepers present there, killed themselves. In August 1963, Fr. Gaetano Nicosia asked to be … Continue reading
The Faith Will Not Die in Poland
The Remnant, Patrick Archbold: “For whom the Lord loveth, he chastiseth; and he scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.” — Hebrews 12:6 No country has suffered the effects of 20th-century anti-Christian ideologies more than Poland. After more than a century of division, … Continue reading
Madrid: 60 Vincentian Martyrs of Spanish Revolution To Be Beatified Saturday
CNA: “The grace experienced by these martyrs is impossible to understand without faith,” said Sister Angeles Infante, a Daughter of Charity who is postulator of the cause for beatification. She praised the martyrs’ “faithfulness to the Vincentian charism, giving their lives, … Continue reading
Why Women Should Wear Chapel Veils in Church
Some may say that an issue such as this is not my prerogative to engage — being a man, and a layman at that. Nevertheless, I will discharge my mind. And I shall be brief. Certainly it is a minor … Continue reading
A Great Baseball Player’s Devotion to St. Jude
National Review, Nicholas Frankovich: Saint Jude, stay with me.” Lying on the pitcher’s mound under the lights at Cleveland Municipal Stadium, as 18,000 people in the stands looked on and hundreds of thousands more across Northeast Ohio and the New … Continue reading
A Plan to Rebuild Christendom in Our Own Time
A Review of As It Is in Heaven: Christian Living and Social Order by Gary Potter, Loreto Publications, 2017 How, you may ask, would so monumental a task be possible in these disordered times when Christian morality is scoffed at … Continue reading
New Priory of Perpetual Adoration in Ireland Offers Itself as Reparation
CNA: Prayer, reparation, and praising God are the focus of a new Benedictine priory in Ireland, which focuses especially on reparation for the sins of priests. “It was never our predetermined plan to come to Ireland,” Silverstream Priory’s Father Benedict Andersen, … Continue reading
October 21: Blessed Emperor Karl Honored at Pontifical High Mass in DC on His Feast Day
The Remnant, Olivia Rao: The annual pontifical mass in honor of the Emperor Blessed Karl of Austria took place yesterday (October 21, 2017) at Mary Mother of God Church in Washington, D.C. The event, organized by the United States branch of … Continue reading
Florida: He Put Up 1000 Pro-Life Ads and Billboards
National Catholic Register, Lori Hadacek Chaplin: In 1998, Ed Daccarett pondered why the average person, 25 years after Roe v. Wade, remained oblivious to the fact that we are in a cultural battle over life. “Why, Lord? After all of these years, all of … Continue reading
Catholic Journalists in the Making
Immaculate Heart of Mary School is an important part of the apostolate of Saint Benedict Center. In addition to our religious brothers and sisters, some very talented and zealous lay Catholic educators work with us to form our charges into … Continue reading
Persecution Against Defenders of Orthodoxy Continues
1Peter5, Steve Skojek: Robert Spaemann, himself a renowned philosopher from Germany, said that he was “shocked” by the retributive action of the diocese. “The archbishop,” said Spaemann, in a separate interview with Hickson, “writes that he has to make sure that the faithful … Continue reading
Austria: New Chancellor Practicing Catholic Who Defends Faith Publicly
Pardon the computer translation from the German Kathnet News: [Sebastian Kurz]”I visited the Sunday Mass in my baptismal church Gatterhölzl”. Sebastian Kurz reported on Sunday against the “Krone”. He did not tell what he was praying for. “Faith is privacy.” With Sebastian Kurz Austria … Continue reading
Young Servant of God Devoted His Short Life to Eucharistic Miracles
Catholic Herald, Francis Phillips: There is an unusual exhibition being held at St Joseph’s church in Thame, Oxfordshire, at the moment. Organised by Anna Johnstone, a local parishioner, it is a display of 60 panels of the Eucharistic miracles of … Continue reading