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A Century of Catholic Education
21+ hour, 6+ 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, 39+ 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…...
O God of earth and altar
2+ day, 21+ hour ago (165+ words) G. K. Chesterton on Thursday, September 10, 2026 O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder…...
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…...
Prayer before study
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (155+ words) Creator of all things, true Source of light and wisdom, lofty origin of all being, graciously let a ray of Your brilliance penetrate into the darkness of my understanding and The post Prayer before study appeared first on The Catholic…...
Medicinal Notes on Inter-Religious Dialogue
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (546+ words) Francis X. Maier on Wednesday, September 9, 2026 For three of my 27 years on diocesan staff, I had the attached duty of ecumenical and inter-religious affairs. It was great work. We had good relations with local Protestant and Latter-Day Saint communities; cordial discussions…...
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 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?...