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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…
His Holiness Pope Leo XIV 22 July 2025 00120 VATICAN CITY Europe Most Holy Father, I address to you this heartfelt petition regarding an urgent and practically unprecedented problem that Your Holiness has inherited from the previous pontificate. It is one which I and many other Catholics believe lies at the very heart of the…
“You just have to be patient,” a priest told me not long ago. I knew it was true, but it didn’t make it much easier—I had been unceremoniously removed from a prestigious position with my employer, forced to upend my family’s life as we moved thousands of miles with only four days’ notice. It was…
While recently channel surfing on Sirius/XM radio, buzzing through the ’70s and ’80s rock stations, I caught a live New York City tribute to Ozzy Osbourne, who died two weeks ago at age 76. Ozzy lived a wild existence, more than mirrored by his music, not only as a solo “artist” (I don’t like that…
In many Catholic parishes and schools today, it has become common to designate specific “themes” for Mass. A Wednesday morning school Mass might revolve around a theme such as light, joy, kindness, or unity. Students and teachers are often asked to help prepare a “Liturgy Sheet,” complete with song choices, Scripture selections, and, of course,…
