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Mary???s Seven Sorrows and the mystery of suffering
5+ hour, 49+ min ago (54+ words) David Hahn, The Catholic Herald on Monday, September 14, 2026 Not many Catholics are familiar with the devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Mary on September 15, but it captures a unique side of spiritual life. Hope after 9/11, stories of faith and courage…...
Court says Chicago Archdiocese, Catholic sisters won???t have to submit to state suicide law
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (46+ words) Daniel Payne, EWTN News on Monday, September 14, 2026 The Catholic objectors will be shielded from the law while a federal lawsuit plays out against the state policy. Hope after 9/11, stories of faith and courage Mission San Luis Obispo “Lux Aeterna” by…...
???Third-Party??? Punishment is Not Catholic
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (324+ words) Casey Chalk on Monday, September 14, 2026 The Church offers a different way of understanding correction, a truly Christian ethic based on a proper anthropology, an understanding of human weakness, of repentance, forgiveness, and redemption that enables us to overcome errors. It…...
9/11: How heroic faith inspired conversion and hope in Christ
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (70+ words) The Catholic Thing Hope after 9/11, stories of faith and courage Mission San Luis Obispo “Lux Aeterna” by Edward Elgar 9/11: How heroic faith inspired conversion and hope in Christ Colm Flynn, National Catholic Register on Monday, September 14, 2026 The Catholic Thing Daily…...
A Century of Catholic Education
2+ day, 5+ 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,…...
Evangelization Under Attack??? Has the Church Forgotten Its Mission?
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (111+ words) The Catholic Thing on Friday, September 11, 2026 Why is evangelization under attack in the Catholic Church? As secularization grows, some Church voices are questioning the need to actively persuade others, while Catholics themselves increasingly debate what it means to proclaim the…...
Andorra to legalize abortion with or without Vatican approval
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (79+ words) Edgar Beltran, The Pillar on Friday, September 11, 2026 The Andorran Prime Minister has announced a plan to decriminalize abortion in the microstate by April next year “whether the Holy See likes it or not,” despite a Catholic bishop serving as co-head…...
U.S. bishops weigh in on Second Amendment Supreme Court case
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (79+ words) Daniel Payne, EWTN News on Friday, September 11, 2026 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow local communities to regulate firearm ownership, weighing in on a high-profile federal case that could significantly reshape the nation’s gun laws....
O God of earth and altar
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (165+ words) G. K. Chesterton on Thursday, September 10, 2026 O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder…...
How the Carthusians resisted the Reformation
5+ day, 5+ 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…...