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Not long ago, someone on đť•Ź 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,…
The above indictment is from Women: Icons of Christ, authored by Phyllis Zagano. This well-respected scholar is arguably the leading advocate for the ordination of women to the diaconate, an issue to which she has devoted her theological career. She was a member of the 2016 Commission for the Study of the Diaconate of Women…
The treasury of Holy Church’s sacred worship truly overflows with inexhaustible wealth, as the 20th-century commentator Pius Parsch reflects in The Church’s Year of Grace, dividing the Sundays after Pentecost into three stages: first, those that highlight the Lord’s miraculous healings pointing ultimately to the salvation of souls; second, from the 7th to the 14th…
