National Catholic Register: Mark Teixeira is widely known as one of the best all-around players in baseball. After being awarded the 2000 Dick Howser Trophy, college baseball’s equivalent of college football’s Heisman Trophy, he was taken in the first round … Continue reading
Category: Catholic Living
Scriptural Admonitions to Meekness
“Moses was a man exceeding meek above all men that dwelt upon earth” (Numbers 12:3). “For thy power, O Lord, is not in a multitude, nor is thy pleasure in the strength of horses, nor from the beginning have the … Continue reading
Tweeting the Pilgrimage for Restoration
Supposedly, revolutions get organized on Twitter now. Flashmobs, too. If social disorder and moral turpitude can be organized there, can wholesome Catholic events? If you’re interested in coming to a quasi-scientific answer to this question and you use Twitter, then … Continue reading
“Social Media” and Our Youth
From a Sunday bulletin… Because of the Center’s electronic publishing and online evangelical activities, I am somewhat familiar with the “social media.” The internet giant Facebook is now used by “901 million monthly active users at the end of March … Continue reading
Cincinnati Inner-City Catholic Boys School Giving a Classical Education
Our Sunday Visitor: In a Cincinnati, Ohio, neighborhood that in 2006 had the highest crime rate in the city, 20 boys, grades K to 8, start their school days reciting prayers in Latin. There are crucifixes in the classrooms and … Continue reading
Swiss Guard: Chaplain Takes Their Spiritual Formation Very Seriously
Catholic Culture: The chaplain of the Swiss Guards has revealed that some Swiss Guards have not been practicing Catholics or made an individual confession before joining the corps. Read more here.
Beautiful Kiwi Socialite, Oxford Grad, Quit High Life to Join Benedictine Cloister
She could have been Britain’s First Lady but she chose to become a Benedictine nun. 44 year old Laura Adshead dated British Prime Minister, David Cameron, from spring 1990 to summer 1991. In 2008, after seeing her life slip more … Continue reading
Arizona Diamondback Willie Bloomquist Grateful to God and St. Rita
Interview with Trent Beattie of the Denver Catholic Register: The 34-year-old Port Orchard, Wash., native says he’s not as talented as some other players who never made it to the majors. Why, then, is he there? In part because of … Continue reading
Lay Apostles in South Korea Help Convert Over 134,000 Adults to Catholicism in 2011
Catholic Culture: A total of 134,562 people were baptized into the Catholic Church in South Korea in 2011—including over 100,000 adults–bringing the country’s Catholic population up to 5.3 million. Read more here.
Saint Augustine on Friendship
This paper was written in preparation for a talk at the 2006 Saint Benedict Center Conference. My talk — which was not a mere reading of the paper — is available on CD and MP3. The conference’s theme was “Catholic … Continue reading
Six Masses, Two Latin Tridentine, Offered Outside Denver Planned Parenthood Clinic
LifeSiteNews: Prayerbooks, rosaries, and pro-life pamphlets are a common sight outside Planned Parenthood’s massive facility in downtown Denver, but this year, local organizers of this spring’s Forty Days for Life campaign decided that one last piece was missing to bring … Continue reading
Church Growing Exponentially in South Korea
Sandro Magister Chiesa OnLine: The seven years of pontificate that Benedict XVI will mark tomorrow are associated, in common opinion, with the general decline of the Church. But this opinion is nurtured by a view restricted to the Christianity of … Continue reading
Auriesville Pilgrimage for Restoration Mixes Tradition, Vitality
The 2012 annual Pilgrimage for Restoration is scheduled for Friday-Sunday, September 28-30. This will mark the seventeenth time that a merry band of Catholic pilgrims cuts a path from Lake George to Auriesville, New York, doing penance all the way. This … Continue reading