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...
While I was in Chicago for the Christmas break, I had a wonderful meeting with around thirty young Jesuits, all in their “pre-tertianship” period of formation. This means that these men had already passed through their lengthy education in philosophy and theology and had been involved for some time in...
Like Christ covered in gashes and blood after his betrayer, Judas, handed Him over to religious authorities, our Church today is wounded. She is disfigured and pained by the abhorrent wave of scandals of modern Judases–weakened by the culture of doubt, fear, distrust and silence that surrounds us. Like...
These are great thoughts to consider when bad weather hits! Fr. Ryan Hilderbrand, pastor of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Huntingburg, Indiana, tweeted three things to think about when bad weather arises on Sundays or Holy Days of Obligation. Is missing Mass permitted? Below are his three bullet points....
