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Let me be direct: other than Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, I’m no fan of modern depictions of the life of Jesus. Whether it’s Jesus of Nazareth or The Chosen or just about any other attempt, modern portrayals of Christ’s fall flat. They typically insert too much of our modern world into the…
Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Sermons of St. John of Damascus. 2nd on the Falling-asleep of Blessed Mary. This day the holy and animated Ark of the living God, which had held within it its own Maker, is…
Exactly six centuries ago, on August 15, 1425, Saint Frances of Rome established the Oblates of the Benedictine Congregation of Monte Oliveto in the Basilica of Santa Maria Nova, Rome. Reflecting on her life and the institution she established, Pope Benedict XVI spoke to the Oblates at the Roman monastery of Tor de’ Specchi: Born…
Evil—elusive and often misunderstood—does not lurk only in the kind of vicious act of cruelty perpetrated by the monstrous Bryan Kohberger when he brutally murdered four innocent University of Idaho students in November 2022. Yet, in the lead-up to his sentencing last month, media commentators speculated on what could have motivated Kohberger to commit such…
Numerous Catholics have discovered Catholic Tradition in the last few years, many of them because of the lockdowns in 2020 that forced Catholics to think outside the box if they wanted to have access to sacraments. In addition, in 2020, liturgies were streamed online throughout that Holy Week, so many Catholics who had never given…
Recently, I was in Paris, where I had the joy of spending time in one of the cities I love most. My love for Paris is deeply connected to my love for French culture, its Catholic tradition, and the musical heritage that France has offered to the world. Alongside all this, I had the chance…
Not long ago, someone on 𝕏 asked where the trend of kids attending back-to-back summer camps came from. He recalled a time—one many of us remember—when camp was a one-week event, or skipped entirely. Now it seems, according to the tweeter, that kids are booked from the end of school until its resumption (which in…
Approximately a quarter of Catholics are married to non-Catholics, even among those married in a Catholic parish. As detailed below, interfaith marriages are more likely to have marital problems and produce children who are less religious. Like anything that involves marriage, this can be a very sensitive topic. Those married to a non-Catholic may view…
A coordinated campaign by law enforcement officials, Hindu activists, and extremist politicians is deploying draconian anti-conversion laws to systematically target Christians across India, according to a new report published by the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI). The EFI report follows national outrage over the arrests of two nuns who were falsely accused of human trafficking…
Recently, I wrote an article about the adulterous Coldplay couple caught on the kiss-cam, and I concluded my piece with some thoughts about the very public General Judgment that will occur when Christ returns to judge the living and the dead: Now, I expected that lukewarm or poorly catechized Catholics would be learning something new…
