Catholic Church

By Most Rev. Joseph Strickland - In the year 2002, now Pope St. John Paul II wrote an apostolic letter entitled, in English, “The Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary” (Rosarium Virginis Mariae). I highly recommend this beautiful letter to all Catholics who want to come to a deeper understanding of the origins and the power of this beautiful prayer and devotion.

By Jim Graves, Catholic World Report - Related to the pandemic, Bishop Strickland also made the news on May 8, 2020, when he became the only U.S. bishop currently heading a diocese to sign an Appeal for the Church and the World, an expression of concern that governments might use COVID-19 to manipulate the public in harmful ways and a condemnation of the use of aborted fetuses in any COVID-19 vaccines.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - Over the past several years, I’ve known of perhaps a dozen people among acquaintances and extended family who have suffered difficult and at times mysterious illnesses—illnesses of a kind which, if they had befallen me, would have prompted me to double-check everything in my life to make sure I was really on the right track toward eternity. You would think there would be nothing quite so “bracing” as the possibility of death ahead of our own imagined schedules.

By Regis Martin, National Catholic Register - God comes among us as man, he enters into the whole drama of the human condition, including all the anguish and fear that threaten to engulf us the moment danger strikes. “God could not become man in any other way,” writes Hans Urs von Balthasar in The Christian and Anxiety, “than by coming to know human fear and by taking it upon himself.” How, indeed, could he have truly become one of us if he were to stop short of that particular threshold?