Sunday, July 27, 2025

Pentecost Sunday: The Spirit of Truth

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will...

Cardinal Mindszenty and Pius XII: A Lost Tale for All Seasons

(A fitting time in this Pentecost to recall with contributor Joseph Donnelly the all-too-forgotten József Cardinal Mindszenty, the 50th anniversary of whose death in...

Transgender In-sanity

There is an ancient Indian fable of six blind men who meet an elephant. Each of them touches different parts of the elephant. One...

Apologetics 101, Question 3: Must God Be Good?

Recently, Catholic Insight posted a thoughtful note from Carl Sundell on the essential questions we should be prepared to answer about our faith. This list...

The Repentance and Return of Saint Peter

In a previous essay I dealt with the stages in St. Peter's fall from grace. In this essay, I would like to examine his...

Pope Benedict and Saint Boniface

BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter's Square Wednesday, 11 March 2009 Saint Boniface, the Apostle of the Germans Dear Brothers and Sisters, Today, we shall reflect on a great eighth-century...

Now Is the Time to be a Saint: Facing Antisemitism in the Church

Those who do not know the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana This, more than anything else, is what I have realized...

The Ascension of our Lord

Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking up toward heaven? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come...

Where Has Shame Fled?

“If I am a sinner and deny sin, there is no forgiveness.  The denial of sin is the unforgivable sin.” Archbishop Fulton Sheen Once upon...
Pope St. John Paul II

Pope John Paul II and the Visitation

(Here is Pope Saint John Paul II's first homily for the feast of the Visitation, to close off his first Marian month as Pope,...