Let us pray for our priests! Today, the Vatican began its four-day abuse summit with 114 presidents of bishops’ conferences. According to the National Catholic Register’s Edward Pentin, the gathering focuses on three primary areas: “responsibility, accountability, transparency — and will feature keynote presentations, working group discussions, meetings with abuse...
What a statement! Fr. Thomas Petri, OP, of the Dominican Friars of the Province of St. Joseph posted a Twitter thread responding to the New York Times article, “‘It Is Not a Closet. It Is a Cage.’ Gay Catholic Priests Speak Out.” The New York Times report discusses interviews conducted...
Now this is cool! 😱 105-year-old Knight of Columbus and World War II Veteran Fred M. Rom recently shared his advice with the Knights of Columbus about being a holy family man. It’s hard to believe he’s 105, because he certainly doesn’t look it! In the video entitled...
This is so sweet! And true! Fr. Goyo Hidalgo, an associate pastor for St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Simi Valley, Cali., posted an awesome story about a little girl clapping outside the confessional. While clapping in church is not usually appropriate, this little girl felt she had a...
My priest-boss often says, “a school is only as Catholic as its faculty.” Rare as it is, our school is Catholic because our staff, administration, and teachers are Catholic. We even drink “Biblical beverages” at our lunch meetings–just to seal the deal on the Catholicity. Serving alcohol goes well...
Fr. Matt Fish, the pastoral administrator at Holy Family Catholic Church in Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, wrote a detailed twitter thread describing reasoning for the “collapse” of the Catholic Church in America, or the West. He explained that because our culture has disposed of what is truly “cultural Catholicism,” the Church...
