“Hold on to your Kids”: children and social media
BY Joseph Shaw
I don’t like referring to children as “kids”, but this is the title of a book some readers may find…
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Pope Pius XII on fashion
BY Virginia Coda Nunziante
Extracts from the introduction to Christian Fashion in the History of the Church.Moral tracts and manuals of the Church’s social…
READ MOREThe two kingdoms: on the fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene OCD
PreludeGive strength to my weakness, O Lord, so that I may come to possess Your kingdom.1We find the central thought…
READ MOREIs the American soul for sale?
BY Judie Brown
So-called “pro-life posturing” that admits to allowing aborting an innocent preborn child until the fifteenth week of life is nothing…
READ MOREOutrageous blasphemy committed at Olympic ceremony
BY Thomas McKenna
Originally published by Catholic Action for Faith and Family on Sunday 28 July 2024.By now you have undoubtedly heard of…
READ MORELifting our eyes to heaven: sermon on the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
BY a Dominican Friar
“And looking up to heaven, he groaned.”Why does our Lord look up to heaven when He begins to heal this…
READ MOREThe conditions of peace
BY Alan Fimister
“[W]hat king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he…
READ MORESaint Elias and the noctilucent clouds of July
BY Roberto de Mattei
In the last weeks of July, during the hours of twilight, there appeared in the sky a rare atmospheric phenomenon…
READ MORECharity and humility: the tenth Sunday after Pentecost
BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene OCD
From Divine IntimacyPreludeGive me, O Lord, humility with love; let humility guard charity in me, and may charity increase according…
READ MOREA world lit only by fire
BY Liam Gibson
On 12 July 2012, a Protestant flute band parading through Belfast in Northern Ireland paused in front of St Patrick’s…
READ MOREThe origin, privileges and blessings of the Brown Scapular
BY a Carmelite Nun
From Novena in honour of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Boston Carmel, 1931).The Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel…
READ MOREA house of prayer: sermon on the ninth Sunday after Pentecost
BY a Dominican Friar
“My house is the house of prayer …”This Sunday’s gospel describes some events that took place in the last week…
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