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This is funny – and makes a great point! How often have you heard lapsed Catholics give excuses for why they don’t go to Mass? It’s too boring, they don’t have time, the priest wasn’t friendly enough, etc. Well a meme is going viral on social media...
It’s certainly a new world! Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence, RI is one of a growing number of clergy who are personally active on Twitter (you can follow him here). We’re not talking about an intern posting announcements, statements, or snippets from his sermons; rather, Bishop Tobin...
Some people are confused about this! Here’s what’s going on. Cardinal Francis Arinze is a beloved prince of the Church, respected very highly around the world. He’s well-known to be an intelligent, articulate, even humorous defender of orthodoxy. Which is why people were a bit surprised to...
It is not my job as a pastor to protect my flock from having to make hard decisions. We have gotten this mistaken notion in parishes that we must maneuver around every secular activity and only verify that matters of faith are wholly secondary to anything else… We accommodate, dumb...
This is a bit unexpected. There is a major pro-life film in production right now about the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, in which the court ruled most legal restrictions on abortion to be unconstitutional. Starring famous actors Jon Voight (Mission Impossible), Stacey Dash (Clueless), and...
Lord, have mercy. Bishop Silvio José Báez, auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Managua, Nicaragua was attacked by a mob while defending the Basilica of San Sebastián in Diriamba. He posted his harrowing story on Twitter along with pictures of his bloodied wounds. According to Vatican News, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes...
