“I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.” (Rom. 12:1) In this passage, Saint Paul employs specifically liturgical language. For “sacrifice,” the Latin … Continue reading
Category: Catholic Living
Can You Go to an Ex-Catholic’s Wedding Outside the Church?
Piigrim Priest: There’s a lot of combinations of sacramental debates happening today, but most of them are very similar: Someone’s Catholic family member is getting married outside the Church. Half the family feels squeamish about it. A priest steps in … Continue reading
Tom Burnett: Catholic Hero of Flight 93
Premonitions he shared with his wife God’s not going to give us a son. He was going to be killed in a plane crash. Spirit Daily: The widow of Flight 93 hero Thomas Burnett says her husband was a devout Catholic … Continue reading
Retired Catholic Quarterback Philip Rivers Takes On Head Coaching Job at Catholic High School
Aleteia, Cerith Gardiner:There was an unusual sight at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, in Alabama, on August 12. The former professional football quarterback Philip Rivers arrived accompanied by 70 students from St. Michael’s Catholic High School in Fairhope, … Continue reading
Deacon Colonel Joe Tedeschi ‘I’m Absolutely Convinced I Survived Because of the Real Presence’
National Carholic Register, Thomas L. McDonald: At dawn on Oct. 4, 1966, Maj. Joseph Tedeschi was in the officers’ tent of a forward operating base in Vietnam. The division chaplain, who happened to be a Catholic priest, poked his head … Continue reading
Carmelite Sister Mary Joseph of the Trinity: Wife, Socialite, Mother of 10, RIP (June 6, 2021) at 92
National Catholic Register, Joan Frawley Desmond: In one tweet, Mark (her son) reported that his mother had “28 grandchildren, some of whom she has never seen.” Other tweets reviewed highlights of his mother’s life preceding her religious vocation: her marriage … Continue reading
We Are Measured by the Quality of Our Loves
The following is the speech I gave at IHM School’s graduation yesterday. Readers should know that our school in rural southern New Hampshire is very small. We had three graduates this year. My effort was to be lighthearted as well as informative and … Continue reading
Oldest Man in the World Prays Rosary Twice a Day
CNA, Francesca Pollio Fenton: His name is Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, he’s Venezuelan, passionate about his faith, prays the rosary twice a day, and is in the Guinness World Records as the oldest man in the world. Mora was born … Continue reading
Ella Logan Angel of the Stage
Church Militant: Ella Logan (1913–1969) was a Scottish-born singer and actress who was famous in American pictures and early television. When she performed for the GIs in Italy, she kept one rule with iron-clad resolve: There would never be anything … Continue reading
Saint Augustine Condemning Faith without Works
The following comes from the Matins lessons in the traditional Roman-rite office for the Monday of the First week of Quadragesima. Twelve-hundred years in advance, Saint Augustine here condemns most emphatically the unbiblical notion of sola fides propagated by the … Continue reading
From Fear Toward Hope
In 1932, at his inauguration for his first term in office, an ebullient Franklin Roosevelt famously declared, “We have nothing to fear but fear itself.” In his manner as well as with his words, his aim was to rally a … Continue reading
Pushback Working? A Prudent Warning as We Celebrate
In Do NOT Go Back to Sleep! This is NOT the End!, James Corbett warns that, while there are good developments taking place regarding COVID tyrrany, we should be on the lookout for the oligarchic response, which may be a … Continue reading