Father Patrick Briscoe shares a story about a recent wedding he helped celebrate. The bride and groom are a young couple clearly in love who chose the details of the Mass beautifully. Father Patrick writes: “But the thing I loved best was
Father Patrick Briscoe writes that he’s always found it a bit strange to celebrate priests on Father’s Day. But there is much that every spiritual father has in common with fathers who are raising families. This Father’s Day, we pray that our
In a society that tells people constantly that they are unworthy and unloved, Justin Fatica has one mission: to tell the world that every person is amazing. Fatica has been traveling around the country for two decades helping people who struggle and
As we celebrate the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, our minds usually turn to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque and her heroic Jesuit confessor, St. Claude de la Colombière. St. Margaret Mary, a humble Visitation nun, received visions of Jesus in
After a back-and-forth fight, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced that they were reinviting the anti-Catholic activist group known as the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” at a Pride Night in June.
Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City released a pastoral letter this May addressing gender dysphoria and questions around sexual identity. The timing of the letter coincided with an Oklahoma bill that restricts “gender-changing” medical procedures for minors. That bill was signed into
One of the most well-known Christian poems of today tells the story of a man looking at his life through the footprints he left in the sand. In good times, the poem says, the man’s footprints were accompanied by those of Jesus,
John Paul II was born in May, the month Catholics dedicate to the Virgin Mary. Some of the first sounds he heard as a newborn were bells and Marian hymns drifting through an open window from the parish church. In May we
Andrea Long Chu, a male who identifies as a transgender woman, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for criticism for “book reviews that scrutinize authors as well as their works, using multiple cultural lenses to explore some of society’s most fraught topics.” Chu’s
“Anyone with eyes can see that something is off,” said Harrison Butker, addressing the crowds gathered for commencement at his alma mater, Georgia Institute of Technology. “It would seem the more connected people are to one another, the more they feel alone,”