Catholic Spirituality

Rosary Warriors Storm Heaven with Prayer, April 1, 2020

03/30/2020 at 11:46 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Storm Heaven with Prayer! On this Wednesday, the 1st of April, please remember that we band together from the four corners of the earth to raise our united voice to Heaven. The 151,730 Rosary Warriors will be reciting the Holy Rosary and storming Heaven with prayer in union with the Holy Mass... read more

“We Glory in Tribulations” – Living the Faith When Public Worship is Prohibited

03/25/2020 at 9:35 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Bishop Athanasius Schneider, March 19, 2020 “We glory in tribulations” (Rom. 5:3) Millions of Catholics in the so-called free Western world will, in the coming weeks or even months, and especially during Holy Week and Easter, the culmination of the entire liturgical year, be... read more

Just don’t take away the Mass

03/12/2020 at 9:28 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Just don’t take away the Mass By Phil Lawler | Mar 12, 2020 Let me confess in advance: if my diocese follows the example set by the Seattle archdiocese, and suspends the public celebration of Mass, I’ll be looking for a priest who leaves the door unlocked when he celebrates... read more

February 14th: Saint Valentine’s Day

02/14/2020 at 10:24 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Long before Christianity began, the day we celebrate as Valentine’s Day [February 14th] was actually a holiday of the Roman Empire, known as Lupercalia. One of the god’s honored during this festival was Pan or Faunus, the god of nature. Another was June, the goddess of women and marriage.... read more

Five Cardinals and two prominent bishops speak about the end times

02/10/2020 at 11:43 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
'The Church is shrouded in the darkness of modernism, but the victory belongs to Our Lord and His Bride. We desire to keep vigil with her and with Jesus, in this new Gethsemane of the end times.' ​​​​​February 4, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The situation in the Church today is so severe... read more
Episcopal Rev. Susan Haynes

CANON LAW AND CATHOLIC COMMON SENSE

01/27/2020 at 10:54 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Edward Peters, First Things, January 24, 2020 A small but intense drama unfolded last week in the Catholic Diocese of Richmond, Virginia. Thanks largely to the graciousness of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, the matter was resolved in the least painful way possible. Even so, it... read more

Hold That Tree: Christmas Ain’t Over Yet

12/31/2019 at 6:50 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Drew Belsky, OnePeterFive, December 26, 2019 The new calendar is one of the subtler corrosives the post-conciliar Vatican poured on the faith of an unsuspecting Catholic populace. From introducing confusion as to the existence of well respected saints to obliterating octaves to the chaos of... read more

New Year’s Resolutions for Concerned Catholics: A Few Suggestions

12/31/2019 at 3:30 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
May 2020 be a year full of grace for everyone. We’ll all need it. By George Weigel, December 31, 2019 During and after the grim martial law period in the early 1980s, many freedom-minded Poles would greet each other on Jan. 1 with a sardonic wish: “May the new year be better than you... read more

Pro-life mom beats world record for fastest half-marathon while pushing baby stroller

12/08/2019 at 12:07 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
By Martin Barillas TULSA, Oklahoma, December 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A pro-life mother accomplished a world record for fastest half-marathon while pushing her baby daughter in a stroller. This happened despite race officials’ objections to the pro-life messaging she and her teammates put... read more

The Magic of the Altar Rail

12/07/2019 at 4:44 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
BY AUSTIN RUSE, DECEMBER 6, 2019 To look at our diocese, you might assume it’s on the liberal side. Located in Northern Virginia and established in 1974, most of the newer churches (and there are many of them) are “in the round.” You know the ones—they look like spaceships. Needless to... read more

A Simple Way to Pray Always

12/05/2019 at 11:17 AM By Mary Anne Hackett
Advent Meditation By Venerable Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan After my liberation many people said to me: Father, in prison you must have had a lot of time to pray.”  It was not as simple as one might think.  The Lord permitted me to experience all my weakness, my physical... read more

History’s Answer to Modern Despair

11/21/2019 at 1:46 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Post-Christian America?

11/21/2019 at 1:37 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Analysis: US Bishops at Odds Over Abortion and the ‘Francis Test’

11/15/2019 at 8:53 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Cardinal Sarah’s Guide to the New Counter-Reformation

11/12/2019 at 10:51 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

‘Courageous…prophets of today’: Dubia cardinal praises men who threw Pachamamas in Tiber

11/01/2019 at 3:21 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

MANIFESTO OF FAITH: THE MOVIE — A ‘VISUAL CATECHESIS’

10/01/2019 at 12:00 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

Wanted: a new St. Augustine, to challenge bad pastors

09/29/2019 at 12:04 PM By Mary Anne Hackett

US bishops giving Fr. James Martin a huge victory with deafening silence on his LGBT advocacy

09/29/2019 at 11:22 AM By Mary Anne Hackett

Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland in Oregon addressed his flock in August regarding the results of the survey

09/22/2019 at 5:12 PM By Mary Anne Hackett