Statue of John Henry Newman, by Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud, outside Brompton Oratory in London. (Image: Another Believer/Wikipedia) With grateful hearts, let us invoke the intercession of St. John Henry Cardinal Newman, …
(Image: Josh Applegate/Unsplash.com) Some fifty years ago, I spent a five-day retreat on a small island off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut. On each day of the retreat, I concentrated …
Scene from Nov. 1, 2025 Mass outside the Broadview facility in Chicago where immigration advocates allege federal authorities inhumanely treat detainees. | Credit: Kathleen Murphy/CNA Chicago, Illinois, Nov 1, 2025 …
Detail of “All Souls’ Day” (1910) by Aladar Korosfoi-Kriesch. (Image: WikiArt.org) Readings:• Wis 3:1-9• Psa 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6• Rom 6:3-9• Jn 6:37-40 “I’ve always had a hard time explaining …
Displaced Sudanese who fled El-Fasher after the city fell to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), arrive in the town of Tawila war-torn Sudan’s western Darfur region on October 28, 2025. …
It’s good that The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls) Day is a Sunday this year. It gives us a chance to focus on Church teaching about the …
I want to start by telling you a story about going to Mass. More than a decade and a half ago, my wife and I embarked on our honeymoon. Since …
(Image: us.fotolia.com) As Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger once said so well, one major difference between Protestants and Catholics is that Catholics pray for the dead: “My view is that if Purgatory …
Revelation 22 is the final chapter of the Bible, and verse 20 contains Jesus’s final words in all of Sacred Scripture. And yet, with almost 2,000 years having elapsed since …
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal offers the primary basis for singing the entire Mass, including the Eucharistic Prayer, when it says: “in the rubrics and in the norms …
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