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Icons Facilitate Prayer: Praying to Our Lady of Czestoc...

A spiritual initiative began in 2012 that has since spread quietly around the wo...

We Must Never Lose the Gift of Faith

One of my faithful parishioners lost her daughter to a heart attack; I did not s...

Faith, Fitness, and the Call to Self-Mastery

I’ve spent years teaching others the ins and outs of exercise and nutritional di...

Who Will Be Saved? Twenty-First Sunday of Ordinary Time

Someone in a crowd called out to Jesus, “Will only a few people be saved?”  Why ...

The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

There is not a whole lot that has been written in the Scriptures about our dear ...

How the Latin Mass is Bringing Gen Z to Christ

God is doing something incredible with Gen Z, and secular media is noticing. The...

Pope Leo, AI, and Rerum Novarum

Like many Catholics, I was transfixed by the recent conclave. That white smoke s...

St. Bernard of Clairvaux

St. Bernard of Clairvaux, born in 1090 in Fontaines, France, is celebrated as on...

The White Monks’ Turning Point: How St. Bernard Met St....

In the rolling countryside of Burgundy, the fledgling monastery at Cîteaux sat i...

The Division of Man vs. the Division of Christ

Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth? No, I tell you, b...

Why Men Need to Live By a Rule

My wife had just given birth to our third daughter, Anna Marie, who was isolated...

The Price of the Fire of God’s Love: Twentieth Sunday i...

The Prince of Peace tells His disciples He did not come to establish peace on th...

The Litany of Humility: A Spiritual MRI for the Soul

I struggle with pride. I always have. The Litany of Humility is a powerful, thou...

How did the Church determine the Assumption of the Bles...

Today, we celebrate one of several Marian liturgical feast days and a Holy Day o...

St. Stephen I of Hungary

St. Stephen I, born around 975, was the first King of Hungary and is remembered ...

St. Philomena (Virgin and Martyr)

St. Philomena, whose name means “daughter of light,” is a revered figure in the ...

The History of the Biretta and Its Defense of the Holy ...

“I like you better without your beretta,” said James Bond to his love interest a...

St. Maximilian Kolbe (Priest and Martyr)

St. Maximilian Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894, in Zduńska Wola, Poland. From ...

The Sisters of Mary, Ukara Island, and Breaking Childre...

Ukara Island, Tanzania, is one of the most remote places in the world, a scar of...

Time for St. Michael’s Lent: Imitating St. Francis and ...

The feast of St. Michael, formerly known as Michaelmas and now the feast of the ...