I always enjoy some good history, and this month I surveyed turning points in American church history, an account of theChallengerdisaster, whose lesson might be, “listen to the engineers,” and Bob Woodward’s account of the Biden years. Oh, and I also reviewed a Candice Millard book, o...
June 20, is the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. So the two feast days are right next to each other, which is appropriate given the closeness of the Two Hearts of Jesus and Mary, both on Earth and in Heaven.
You’ve got it: the Church Fathers! And yet, no one suffered more from the strict Catholic bans on masturbation than the lower-level monks, nuns and priests, sworn to celibacy and forbidden from self-love. This is probably one reason self-flagellationwas so popular; at least you got to ...
000 years and is said to be the second-largest festival in China after the Chinese New Year. Observed on the 15th day of the eighth month of the traditional Chinese lunar calendar, it can occur in either September or early October in the Gregorian calendar....
I truly feel empowered to evangelize culture and share the good news of Jesus after experiencing and being immersed in the Catholic worldview. Ashley Kraker Saint Mary's College The Catholic Worldview Fellowship was far more than just a month of coursework. The Fellowship gave me a rich ...
During Pride month, there's a lot of talk circulating about bridge-building — between the Catholic church and the LGBTQ community. I'm not feeling the talk, to be frank. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I have to point out that the talk emanates almo...
attacking what he called "dangerous gender ideologies" in an apparent reference to Pride month, which has been celebrated in June since the Stonewall riots in 1969. He also criticized anarticle by The Associated Presshighlighting a shift toward conservativism in some parts of the Cat...
It was in the college’s chapel that she first encountered the beauty of the Catholic Church: the beauty of its theology and also of its physical art. “In the churches I grew up in, art had no place, beauty had little place. Sentimentality and kitsch, what [founder and then-president...
June 29, 2010 Q: You use “legit” a lot as an adjective, most recently in your posting on “these ones.” I acknowledge the informal use of “legit” as an adjective (“Is this doctor legit?”), but what about its use as an adverb (“Yes, he got his MD legit”)? A: We ...
The use of the word in a publishing sense is still around, but it’s primarily seen in the Roman Catholic Church, where an “imprimatur” is a declaration that a book is doctrinally or morally acceptable to be read by the Catholic faithful. Buy Pat’s books at a local store or Amazon...