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What can a sheltered young woman from a bourgeois French family who died at the age of 24 possibly know about “the abyss...
10/01/2026

What can a sheltered young woman from a bourgeois French family who died at the age of 24 possibly know about “the abyss”? Remarkably, Thérèse is not the saccharine stereotype of so many holy cards and statues.

Perhaps the best way to appreciate Thérèse is as the antithesis of three giants of modern thought: Marx, Nietzsche, Freud.

Christa Pike’s botched ex*****on is “the epitome of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ under the Eighth Amendment,” said Kri...
10/01/2026

Christa Pike’s botched ex*****on is “the epitome of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ under the Eighth Amendment,” said Krisane Vaillancourt Murphy, from Catholic Mobilizing Network.

Pike’s is the second failed ex*****on in Tennessee this year.

Catholic Mobilizing Network offered prayers for both condemned murderer Christa Pike and the family of her victim.

“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’ defects — not being surprised at their weakness, bu...
10/01/2026

“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all our neighbors’ defects — not being surprised at their weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.”

St. Thérèse of Lisieux, pray for us!

What explains the cross-generational appeal of Fulton Sheen, the Midwestern cleric who used a chalkboard to talk about J...
10/01/2026

What explains the cross-generational appeal of Fulton Sheen, the Midwestern cleric who used a chalkboard to talk about Jesus?

For older Catholics, he may be a familiar voice from television. For younger generations, says Lila Rose, “there’s grandpa.”

Fulton Sheen’s staying power was on full display in St. Louis, where LA pilgrims joined 50,000 Catholics for his beatification.

Can Catholics disagree about the liturgy without turning those arguments into a battle over the Church herself? Greg Erl...
10/01/2026

Can Catholics disagree about the liturgy without turning those arguments into a battle over the Church herself?

Greg Erlandson takes up reader responses to his original “Ok Boomer” column:

Writing columns is sometimes akin to dropping a message into a bottle and tossing it into the ocean.

C.S. Lewis was clear: Aslan was meant to point readers to Christ. So what happens when Netflix’s new “Narnia” casts Mery...
10/01/2026

C.S. Lewis was clear: Aslan was meant to point readers to Christ. So what happens when Netflix’s new “Narnia” casts Meryl Streep in the role?

Aslan may be a Christ figure. But is he really a Christian one?

Aslan has no reference to God the Father. To capture the divinity of Jesus apart from the Trinity seems problematic to me.

St. Jerome was commissioned to translate the Bible from Hebrew to Latin by Pope Damasus I, and produced the authoritativ...
09/30/2026

St. Jerome was commissioned to translate the Bible from Hebrew to Latin by Pope Damasus I, and produced the authoritative Vulgate translation.

St. Jerome, pray for us!

Olvera Street’s historic cross and Nativity will stay, after a federal appeals court rejected efforts to remove them.The...
09/30/2026

Olvera Street’s historic cross and Nativity will stay, after a federal appeals court rejected efforts to remove them.

The cross has stood since 1929, when it was erected to commemorate LA’s founding. The Nativity is part of the plaza’s Christmas tradition.

A cross and Nativity will remain in an LA public plaza after a US appeals court ruled against an atheist who brought a lawsuit to have the displays removed.

Newly Blessed Fulton Sheen is beloved among American Catholics now, but when he was leading the Diocese of Rochester in ...
09/30/2026

Newly Blessed Fulton Sheen is beloved among American Catholics now, but when he was leading the Diocese of Rochester in the late 1960s, his own parishioners were so angered by his decisions that they threw rocks at his car.

“The whole world comes to hear Fulton Sheen, except his own diocese.”

Sheen understood before many of his peers that the West was passing from Christendom to mission territory.

Most Catholics know St. Michael the Archangel from one short prayer recited after Mass. But for the ancient Christians, ...
09/29/2026

Most Catholics know St. Michael the Archangel from one short prayer recited after Mass. But for the ancient Christians, St. Michael was at the center of many earthly mysteries.

What mysteries is the archangel working out even now in our history, our calendars, and our maps?

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