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Devolution a la Mode
18+ hour, 53+ min ago (881+ words) Anthony Esolen on Sunday, September 13, 2026 “That’s too long!” says one of the local boys. “Give me a shorter one.” “Jesus wept,” says Mary Ellen. That earns the boy a gift, and a look of pious ecstasy from the charitable lady....
A Century of Catholic Education
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (468+ words) James P. MacGuire on Saturday, September 12, 2026 In 1896, Episcopal clergyman John Byron Diman founded St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. It became one of the so-called Saint Grottlesex schools, that name being a portmanteau of St. George’s, St. Mark’s, St. Paul’s, Groton,…...
Prayer at Ground Zero
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (263+ words) Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, September 11, 2026 O God of love, compassion, and healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions, who gather today at this site, the scene of incredible violence and pain. We ask you in…...
The Day Before Disaster
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (610+ words) Michael Pakaluk on Thursday, September 10, 2026 “We know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good” (Romans 8:28). And this propensity is fundamentally correct. Our Lord teaches us its meaning: visible disasters are not meant to winnow out,…...
How the Carthusians resisted the Reformation
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (58+ words) Victoria Sands, History Today on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass – in theaters on…...
Prayer before study
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (155+ words) Creator of all things, true Source of light and wisdom, lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of Your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and The post Prayer before study appeared first on The Catholic…...
Medicinal Notes on Inter-Religious Dialogue
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (546+ words) Francis X. Maier on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 For three of my 27 years on diocesan staff, I had the attached duty of ecumenical and inter-religious affairs. It was great work. We had good relations with local Protestant and Latter-Day Saint communities; cordial discussions…...
The Medina???Constitution??? and the myth of Islam???s democratic origins
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (74+ words) Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, The European Conservative on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Describing the Medina document as evidence of “constitutional democracy” in contemporary terms imposes modern ideas onto a seventh-century Arabian society where such concepts were clearly not present. Raymond and Mel…...
10,000 pro-lifers fill London???s streets at March for Life
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (75+ words) Michael Haynes, The Catholic Herald on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Undeterred by violent pro-abortion protests, over 10,000 pro-lifers took to the streets of London for the annual March for Life on Saturday, with a record 15 Catholic bishops attending. Raymond and Mel on The…...
First, Do No Harm?
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (675+ words) Amy Fahey on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 The wife of a couple nearby cups her hand to her mouth in a repressed giggle. Her husband turns to her and says sharply: “Well, he’s right.” When we make it to the appointment room,…...