Catholic Church

By Robert Lazu Kmita, Remnant Columnist, Romania - Explicitly named and warmly recommended by Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Saint Francis de Sales is one of the most important masters of Christian prayer and meditation. What surprises us is the fact that, although he lived in a (still) truly Christian world, he did not expect laypeople to be familiar with “mental prayer” or “meditation.” On the contrary, he assumed that most had not heard of meditation and did not know how to practice it. ....

By Card. Joseph Zen, 15 February 2024  Day after “the ashes” - There is a doubt to be resolved. They tell us that synodality is a fundamental constitutive element of the life of the Church, but at the same time they emphasize that synodality is what the Lord expects of us today. Participation and communion are obviously permanent characteristics of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. But doesn't say that synodality is “the thing that the Lord expects of us today” mean that it is something new? ...

By Marcellino D'Ambrosio, Ph.D., Integrated Catholic - Lent is supposed to be a season of a successful journey through the desert of penance to a new land and a new, deeper, intimacy with God. But often, we find ourselves going back to the same old Lenten pathways of past years and end up getting nowhere. My aim here is to put into your hands some fresh Lenten ideas to help you approach the season in a new way so Lent can become for you the experience of lasting change that it is intended to be. ...

Complicit Clergy, Dec 8, 2023 – During the Q&A portion after a speech given by Cardinal Wilton Gregory at Catholic University (CUA) of America on December 6, 2023, a student asks the Cardinal why CUA students don’t have access to the Traditional Latin Mass on campus. Watch Cardinal Gregory’s finger-wagging response in this video. WATCH