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From DC’s Hall of the Americas, Helen Alvaré and others speak on Religious Freedom…
English[embedded content] Spanish[embedded content] “Celebrating the International Day of Religious Freedom: Guarantee of Human Rights and the Common Good” was organized by the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the Organization of American States. Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews Entertainment blogs & Forums
Humanistic individualism, like Communism, is false — and John Paul II’s Christian vision of man is true…..
By Fr Hugh Mackenzie St John Paul II is widely accepted as having made a major contribution to the 1989 downfall of the Soviet regime. For him this was the victory of the Christian vision of the human person over the Marxist one. The truth about Man ‘will out’ as long as we are ‘not afraid’ to live and teach it. This was the vision he courageously preached to the people of ...
Surrounded by Halloween witchery, Catholics in Salem wage a battle for souls…
On an unseasonably warm October afternoon in the Witch City, America’s unofficial Halloween capital, thousands of people are passing by a lay Catholic street preacher. Some are wearing skin-tight black skeleton costumes, others vampire hoods and makeup, and some look like demons. Most are revelers, celebrating Halloween a little early. But others have intense looks on their faces, as if this is ga...
‘A Bible Made of Stone and Glass’: Chartres Cathedral Celebrates 1,000 Years of Its Foundation…
Notre Dame of Chartres Cathedral in France, a Christian landmark since the Middle Ages, is currently celebrating the first millennium of its foundation. This Marian shrine, whose fame almost equals that of Notre-Dame de Paris, will host a series of religious and artistic celebrations until Aug. 15, 2025. A vast renovation and embellishment project has been developed in the cathedral’s crypt...
I Like Luce…
I like Luce Skip to content Pillar subscribers can listen to JD read this Pillar Post here: The Pillar TL;DR Hey everybody, First things first. I like Luce. I think she’s a fun piece of pop art with accessible symbolism, and I hope they retail a funko pop version of her so I can buy one for my kids. And if you’ve spent the last 24 hours posting online that Luce is a symbol of everything wrong with...
I was raised Wiccan — here’s how I found my way to Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church…
Share via: Nora has also shared her testimony on Signposts and The Journey Home. ***** I grew up in the beautiful mountains of Colorado with loving parents. We were not religious at all; in fact, our family had an anti-Christian attitude. I believed in an impersonal God and had a deep devotion to angels, though I am not sure where those beliefs originated. My parents worked hard to provide for my ...
Women Deacons, ‘Sexuality’ and More: Here’s How the Synod Final Document Changed From the Draft…
When the final document of the Synod on Synodality’s was confirmed on Oct. 26, it emphasized that the possibility of women deacons remains unsettled. “The question of women’s access to diaconal ministry remains open,” reads the document, which was expressly approved by Pope Francis after each of its 155 paragraphs were affirmed by 355 voting members. “This discernment needs to continue.” But that ...
We have to talk about the trend in the Church toward clustering parishes…
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Phyllis Zagano Damages Her Own Argument for Female Deacons…
Phyllis Zagano is well-known as one of the biggest advocates for female deacons in the Catholic Church. However, she has shown a lack of understanding the concept of Imago Dei (Image of God) in a way that really harms her argument. If she makes a mistake here, it undermines here argument for female deacons. This piece will note Church teaching on the Image of God, point out Zagano’s error, and not...
When I read this definition of ‘glory’ from St. Thomas Aquinas, it stopped me in my tracks…..
It is remarkable how many words we use—often even important ones—without a clear notion of what they mean. Glory has been one of those words for me. Then one day I read a definition in Thomas Aquinas that fairly stopped me in my tracks. “The word glory properly denotes that somebody’s good is known and approved by many.” Honestly, I kept reading this over and over, smiling. Every word other than ‘...
Why actor Sir Anthony Hopkins called California’s Thomas Aquinas College one of the ‘most beautiful places’ he had ever seen…
Greetings from Wichita, Kansas, where I am in town — as I frequently am — to visit family and to be tempted into buying stacks of books (and icons) at the amazing Eighth Day Books (see this 2015 New York Times feature). This time around, I am one of the speakers at the 10th annual Inklings Festival at the Eighth Day Institute. The title of my talk: “The Scariest Five Chapters in the Work of C. S. ...
Can the Vatican-China deal move forward without looking back?
Can the Vatican-China deal move forward without looking back? Skip to content The Holy See announced Tuesday that it has renewed for four years its “Provisional Agreement regarding the Appointment of Bishops” with the Chinese government — an increase from the prior two-year renewals signed after the deal was originally struck in 2018. Alamy stock image. The renewal of the agreement comes “in light...
