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At some point in life, a person will witness a series of events that will leave him asking a simple rhetorical question: “Did I just see that?” The encounter may spawn further questions or leave the person confused about what he just witnessed or look for answers. Imagine if the event you encounter was the celebration of the Mass and the actual incident involved an extraordinary minister of the Holy Eucharist who during the Liturgy of the Eucharist went to the tabernacle that was nowhere to be found within the sanctuary, then proceeded to process down the aisle elevating the Ciborium where the Holy Eucharist is safely kept, then proceeded to assist the Priest celebrant-homilist on the altar with the distribution of the Holy Eucharist to multiple patens while the Priest either assisted or o...

The torture of St. Jan Sarkandar Every year on March 17th all the world dresses in sober colors, dies their beer a golden-yellowish, and recalls the great Polish saint and martyr Jan Sarkander. Eternally overshadowed by St. Patrick, St. Jan has the great misfortune of sharing a feast day with an Irishman. (My people do have a habit of taking over a room.) And yet we shouldn’t forget this good and holy martyr, who died, at least in part, for a cause that continues to vex us: government encroachment on the seal of the confessional. St. Jan (December 20, 1576 to March 17, 1620) was a Polish widower who was ordained a priest at a time of great national strife. His homeland, Silesia, was sometimes Bohemian, sometimes Czech, but is generally considered Polish in that way European borders tend to...

Ite ad Ioseph Skip to content Tomorrow is St. Joseph’s Day, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. Cuzco School Artist, “Saint Joseph and the Christ Child,” late 17th–18th century. public domain In the Church’s calendar, St. Joseph has two feasts, and three if you count the Feast of the Holy Family, the Sunday after Christmas. Devotion to St. Joseph is prominent in the Church today — note the pope’s apostolic letter on the man, the popularity of a 33-day consecration to the Lord’s foster father, and the profusion of kids named Joseph you’ll find at the parish Sunday donuts. But it hasn’t always been thus. In fact, for the first thousand years of Christianity, Joseph had almost no cult of devotion at all, except among the Copts. According to the scholars I’ve read, especially Sandra Mi...

An event at the Kansas Capitol in Topeka that organizers are calling a “Black Mass” is being organized in support of pro-choice views on abortion. That is what Michael Stewart, the organizer of the event, told the Topeka Capital-Journal. “This is a specific response to our legislatures continuing to pander to groups like the Kansas Catholic Conference and to Kansans for Life, where they keep trying to come back and attack abortion rights, much less other rights,” Stewart told the paper. On Jan. 29, Stewart heckled participants of the Topeka March for Life (event pictured above). Participants who attended the March report that he shouted satanic slogans at children and told them “Your parents are lying to you,” while urging them to embrace Satan. Chuck Weber, of the Kansas Catholic Conferen...

[embedded content] In this new episode of The Road to Emmaus, Scott Hahn is joined by Dr. Ben Reinhard, professor of English at Franciscan University of Steubenville and author of the new book The High Hallow: Tolkien’s Liturgical Imagination… Services Marketplace – Listings, Bookings & Reviews Entertainment blogs & Forums