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The Feast of the Ascension commemorates the return of Our Lord to his Father in Heaven and begins the closing of the Paschaltide season. We read of the day’s events in the first chapter of Acts. In our home the weekdays before and after Ascension serve as a time of double penance and preparation as…
Just a few days ago, on May 20, 2025, actor George Wendt passed away. For many of us who grew up watching Cheers,or later discovered it through reruns, George Wendt was simply “Norm.” He was the guy on the barstool with dry wit, stoicism, and a steady presence that never demanded attention yet somehow became…
Progressives do not seem to understand the dramatic societal transformation that is occurring among young people searching for meaning in an increasingly chaotic culture. Failing to recognize these changes, David Hogg, the clueless Democratic National Committee Vice Chair, recently told an interviewer that young people just want to “get laid and have fun.” The truth…
For this 5th Sunday after Easter we are still moving through John 16 and the Lord’s Last Supper Discourse as well as the Letter of James. Liturgically, we are very close now to the Ascension of the Lord, on Thursday, when the High Priest, the Risen Savior, entered the heavenly temple where He continuously renews…
Let us try to imagine a Church filled with Christ, overflowing with His presence and power. Not too difficult, is it? Is that not the customary, immemorial even, way of referring to the Bride and Body of Christ? And does she not accordingly see herself situated along a continuum stretching from time into eternity, a…
In a beautiful address to Eastern Christian pilgrims in Rome, Pope Leo XIV showed this week that the tenets of our Catholic Faith are more than platitudes. In particular, he applied Catholic principles plainly and unflinchingly to the plight of the Christian communities in Bethlehem, located in the West Bank, and in Gaza—defending their right…
The smoke has cleared from the Sistine Chapel, and Pope Leo XVI has been elected to lead the Catholic Church into an uncertain future. As Catholics around the world look to Rome with a mixture of hope and trepidation, one question emerges above all others: How do we navigate the turbulent waters ahead? For more…
On May 18, 2025, the news broke that Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th president of the United States and one of the most recognizable Catholic figures in modern American political life, was diagnosed with advanced, metastatic prostate cancer. The cancer, classified with a Gleason score of 9—aggressive and spreading to his bones—is no trivial…
The Francists are playing defense now, fighting a rear-guard action against those who have questioned certain actions, thoughts, and even “teachings” of Pope Francis. There is an odor of desperation among them. After all, we have had a sometimes rocky 12 years. The Francists know this, though they would put all the blame on Taylor…
So, having said all this, let’s hazard a general summary of the various “clans of Tradition.” At the risk of oversimplifying, I’m going to break the clans into three. The reason is that this is a helpful historical framework, because it provides a general historical concept, which then allows us to identify various subsets, or…
