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Evangelization Under Attack??? Has the Church Forgotten Its Mission?
23+ hour, 48+ min ago (111+ words) The Catholic Thing on Friday, September 11, 2026 Why is evangelization under attack in the Catholic Church? As secularization grows, some Church voices are questioning the need to actively persuade others, while Catholics themselves increasingly debate what it means to proclaim the…...
Andorra to legalize abortion with or without Vatican approval
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (79+ words) Edgar Beltran, The Pillar on Friday, September 11, 2026 The Andorran Prime Minister has announced a plan to decriminalize abortion in the microstate by April next year “whether the Holy See likes it or not,” despite a Catholic bishop serving as co-head…...
How the Carthusians resisted the Reformation
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (58+ words) Victoria Sands, History Today on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass – in theaters on…...
The Saint behind the???Dark Night???
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (78+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 For the Carmelites, 2026 is a jubilee year dedicated to St. John of the Cross, marking 300 years since his canonization and 100 years since he was proclaimed a doctor of the Church. Raymond and…...
On the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (201+ words) St. Andrew of Crete on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 This radiant and manifest coming of God to men most certainly needed a joyful prelude to introduce the great gift of salvation to us. The present festival, the birth of the Mother of…...
The Medina???Constitution??? and the myth of Islam???s democratic origins
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (74+ words) Fr. Mario Alexis Portella, The European Conservative on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 Describing the Medina document as evidence of “constitutional democracy” in contemporary terms imposes modern ideas onto a seventh-century Arabian society where such concepts were clearly not present. Raymond and Mel…...
NJ teen had vision of Virgin Mary before his tumor miraculously shrank
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (86+ words) Angela Barbuti, New York Post on Monday, September 7, 2026 The teen feels a calling to the priesthood: “Priesthood is a life of service, sacrifice and joy, centered on Jesus,” he says. “I trust that God is guiding me step by step....
The rot goes deeper
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (77+ words) Diane Montagna on Monday, September 7, 2026 What happens when a ruling from Rome reaches a diocesan chancery declaring that its suspension of a priest was “invalid,” and chancery officials choose not to tell its clergy and faithful what Rome has decided?...
England???s historic cathedrals turn to pop concerts and silent discos
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (76+ words) Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register on Monday, September 7, 2026 As Church of England cathedrals face deep financial strain, venues once central to Britain’s Christian history are hosting tribute acts, ‘raves in the nave’ and becoming nightclubs — prompting charges of desecration. Raymond…...
Caravaggio???s???The Incredulity of St. Thomas???
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (486+ words) Brad Miner on Sunday, September 6, 2026 There was once a monument in Rome called Milliarium Aureum: the Golden Milestone. The Emperor Augustus erected it in the Forum in about 20 B.C. All distances in Ancient Rome were said to be marked from (or…...