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A Century of Catholic Education
21+ hour, 14+ min ago (468+ words) James P. MacGuire on Saturday, September 12, 2026 In 1896, Episcopal clergyman John Byron Diman founded St. George’s School in Newport, R.I. It became one of the so-called Saint Grottlesex schools, that name being a portmanteau of St. George’s, St. Mark’s, St. Paul’s, Groton,…...
Evangelization Under Attack??? Has the Church Forgotten Its Mission?
23+ hour, 47+ 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…...
Prayer at Ground Zero
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (263+ words) Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, September 11, 2026 O God of love, compassion, and healing, look on us, people of many different faiths and traditions, who gather today at this site, the scene of incredible violence and pain. We ask you in…...
Charlie Kirk???s evangelical populism
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (60+ words) Dale M. Coulter, First Things on Friday, September 11, 2026 The evangelical populism that Kirk represented has only strengthened in the wake of his death. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass – in theaters…...
U.S. bishops weigh in on Second Amendment Supreme Court case
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (79+ words) Daniel Payne, EWTN News on Friday, September 11, 2026 The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow local communities to regulate firearm ownership, weighing in on a high-profile federal case that could significantly reshape the nation’s gun laws....
Beatified and???Based???: Why Gen Z Catholics are falling for Fulton Sheen
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (74+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Thursday, September 10, 2026 Sheen continues to speak to young Catholics. He was fiery without being cruel, polished without seeming artificial and uncompromising without losing sight of the audience in front of him. Raymond and Mel…...
Supreme Court declines Catholic mother???s bid for son???s vaccine exemption in N.Y.
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (77+ words) Julian Mark, The Washington Post on Thursday, September 10, 2026 The mother said that her Catholic beliefs prevented her from vaccinating herself or her son and that the state requirement would force her to choose between her son’s education and her faith....
The Day Before Disaster
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (610+ words) Michael Pakaluk on Thursday, September 10, 2026 “We know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good” (Romans 8:28). And this propensity is fundamentally correct. Our Lord teaches us its meaning: visible disasters are not meant to winnow out,…...
Catholic faith endures at Pentagon 25 years after 9/11
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (66+ words) Ann Augherton, Arlington Catholic Herald on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 At the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial, there are 184 stainless-steel benches, one for each person who lost their life there. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone…...
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…...