Author: S&P
This Sunday, Give Up the Lie: Meet Jesus and Offer Him Your True Self…
Too often, when we look in the mirror, we see a dream version of ourselves instead of what is in front of our eyes. We so badly want to be the “best version of ourselves” that this is all we see. But then, when we get a glimpse of our true selves, it can be jarring — like seeing a picture of ourselves and saying, “Yikes. I thought I looked better than that!” That is what happens to the rich young ...
3 Simple Rules for the Rosary, from Actor David Henrie (‘Wizards of Waverly Place,’ ‘How I Met Your Mother’)…
As Catholics around the world celebrate October, the month of the holy Rosary, actor and director David Henrie recently shared with Our Sunday Visitor how this powerful prayer has impacted his life. Known for his roles in Disney’s “Wizards of Waverly Place” and the CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother,” Henrie has been open about the central role that the Rosary plays in his personal and family life,...
Growing Seeds of Faith in America: Catholicism in ‘A Tree Grows in Brooklyn’…
Sadie stood on the boat, heavy with child, a toddler clinging to her hand, the shores of France shrinking into the distance. It had been weeks already since she had left her home in Lebanon—where she had lived with her fellow Christians in fear and poverty due to Ottoman persecution. At the age of eighteen, she was going with her twenty-two-year-old husband to a place called St. Louis in the Ameri...
How ‘Wir sind Papst!’ Became a Headline for the Ages…
How ‘Wir sind Papst!’ became a headline for the ages Skip to content Hours after Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was elected pope in 2005, the German journalist Georg Streiter came up with a headline that’s still remembered almost 20 years later. Pope Benedict XVI, pictured on Jan. 20, 2006. Giuseppe Ruggirello via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 3.0). Streiter, the political editor of the Bild newspaper, condensed...
Mater Et Magistra, La Suprema, and Disordered Desire…
Mater et magistra, la suprema, and disordered desire Skip to content Happy Friday friends, And a very happy feast of St. John XIII to all who celebrate — and all of you should. Papa Roncalli is best remembered as the pope who convoked Vatican Council II, and in that sense at least I tend to think of him as at least co-patron saint of this era in the life of the Church. Of course, he also is the po...
Doctrine Dicastery Overturns Vatican Ruling in Priest Laicization Case…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Vatican’s doctrine office has mandated the laicization of an Argentine priest accused of sexually abusing minors, overturning a surprise ruling from the Vatican Secretariat of State that imposed limitations on the priest’s activities. In an Oct. 8 communiqué published via the news service of the Argentine bishops’ conference, Archbishop John Kennedy, head of the disciplina...
Jesus Does Not Follow the Science…
By Fr. Jerry Pokorsky ( bio – articles – email ) | Oct 07, 2024 Patients use Internet medical portals to make appointments, ask questions of medical personnel, and check laboratory results. But do the medical portal masters follow the science? The portal masters now ask: What was your sex assigned at birth? (Me: “I don’t remember.”) What are your preferred pronouns? (Me: “Huh? Your Hig...
Why the Príncipi Case Matters…
Why the Príncipi case matters Skip to content The Vatican Secretariat of State’s “extraordinary procedure” to reinstate a laicized priest, blocked this week by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, may prove to be the most significant Vatican story of the year. Archbishop Edgar Peña Parra meets with Pope Francis in 2017. Pillar file photo. Little is known, as yet, about why sostituto Archbi...
Report: Nearly 150 Catholic Hospitals Provided Transgender Surgeries or Drugs to Children…
Nearly 150 Catholic hospitals across the United States provided children with hormone therapy or performed gender-transition surgeries on them between 2019 and 2023, contradicting Church teaching and the U.S. bishops’ prohibition on Catholic health-care providers offering such interventions, according to data published this week by a medical watchdog group. In all, more than 520 minors received tr...
When You Serve Them, You Serve God
“Because of Your amazing sacrifice for me, I want to serve You with every fiber of my being. I know that my service is woefully inadequate. Nonetheless, when I yield myself to Your will, You bless me with Joy.”– Jesus Listens, July 4th And the King shall answer and say unto them, “Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me...
Yes and No, Picking a Wife, and Still Dead to Me…
Yes and no, picking a wife, and still dead to me Skip to content Happy Friday, friends, I cannot be the first father to view their kid as the most beautiful puzzle box ever fashioned by the Divine craftsman, surely. But it doesn’t stop me feeling like the experience of trying to figure this gorgeous little girl out is unique to me. She had a recent birthday, which was lovely and exhausting for all...
Why St. Francis of Assisi is one of my favorite people who ever lived…
[embedded content] St. Francis of Assisi truly changed the world with his radical poverty, love of God, and JOY. I am SO excited for this episode on one of my favorite saints! Even better, this episode was filmed over the summer in Assisi while I was leading a pilgrimage through Italy. Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews Entertainment blogs & Forums
