I spend a lot of time thinking, reading, and praying about why the Church is decline in this country. The influx of immigrants from Latin America hides the number decline. Even with this influx, every measurable indicator is down: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, priestly ordinations, numbers of men’s and women’...
Pope Francis just made another first for the papacy: delivering a TED talk! Titled “Why the Only Future Worth Building Includes Everyone,” the pontiff addressed the TED talk crowd in Vancouver, Canada by video. The video appeared to have been taken in his apartment in the Vatican’s Domus Sanctae...
College seminary can be a weird place. It often feels like a mix between a frat house, a doomsday bunker, and Catholic Hogwarts. The characters you’ll meet seem like they’re straight out of a 90s sitcom with personalities so extreme that you’ll be amazed that people like...
Everyone knows the meaning of Good Friday. But what about Holy Saturday? Good Friday is the day when we remember that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. The same is true of Easter Sunday, when everyone knows we celebrate that he rose from the dead in triumph over...
Within Christianity, there tend to be three major views of the place of excommunication: 1) We shouldn’t excommunicate anyone, because it’s not merciful. 2) We should excommunicate, because we want to purify the Church of the damned. 3) We should excommunicate, because it’s merciful to sinners. So...
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