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Papal Doctor: Pope Has ‘No Particular Illnesses’ and ‘Is Doing Well Consistent With His Age’


Why a Louisiana excommunication is a canonical ‘hard case’...
J.D. Flynn
A Louisiana deacon declared excommunicated this month had formally joined an Anglican parish community, before his bishop declared that he had incurred a formal canonical penalty. Deacon Scott Peyton’s excommunication has garnered national attention, because the deacon’s defection from the Church came after his son was abused by a priest.


Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori Asks Prayers for Key Bridge Victims, Construction Workers, First Responders; Apostleship of the Sea Had Ministered to Dali Crew Before Collision...


Holy Week, the Annunciation and St. Dismas...
Fr. Raymond de Souza
Happy feast of the Good Thief! (More or less.) There are no feast days observed during Holy Week. When March 25 falls during Holy Week, as it does this year, the great feast of the Annunciation is delayed to the Monday after Divine Mercy Sunday. Holy Week and the Easter Octave take precedence over all...


Jesus was not the first king to enter Jerusalem. But the other kings’ entrances were totally unlike his...
Tom Hoopes
The great conqueror Alexander the Great entered Jerusalem in 329 B.C. as a giant man wearing a plumed helmet atop an enormous white warhorse. Seeing him, the city leaders quaked with fear. He demanded taxes, and got them, but he spared the city — perhaps because his teacher, Aristotle, taught him to admire monotheism.


Psychiatrist explains 2 great truths about human nature that have been rejected by our culture...


Pope Francis to Travel to Venice to Offer Mass in St. Mark’s Square, Vatican Announces...
Courtney Mares
Pope Francis will travel by motorboat along Venice’s canals and offer Mass in St. Mark’s Square during his visit to the “floating city,” the Vatican announced Monday. The Holy See Press Office has released the schedule for the pope’s upcoming day trip to Venice — the pope’s only scheduled trip so far in 2024.


The Plenary Indulgences of Holy Week, Easter Octave and Divine Mercy Sunday for Everyone...
Joseph Pronechen
Holy Week and Divine Mercy Sunday, present everyone with particular plenary indulgences that everyone has the opportunity to receive. Here’s how to gain them for yourselves, your loved ones in purgatory, and possibly even for some forgotten soul there. The plenary indulgences that we can receive on every day of Holy Week actually are of two kinds. Certain ones are specific to Holy Week itself...


Here’s what the defrocking of Vangheluwe suggests about the Rupnik scandal...


How Feminism Shattered Our Understanding of Motherhood...


Belgian Bishop Roger Vangheluwe Laicized 14 Years After Admitting Abuse...
Luke Coppen
Pope Francis has laicized Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, almost 14 years after the Belgian prelate resigned after admitting that he had abused a nephew. The apostolic nunciature to Belgium said in a March 21 statement that “serious new elements” had emerged in recent months...


A Lenten Refresher on the Parts of the Mass...
John Grondelski
The liturgy, most especially the Mass, is the central act of the Church. Vatican II reminds us that the liturgy, through which the work of our redemption is accomplished, most of all in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, is the outstanding means whereby the faithful may express in their lives and manifest to others the mystery of Christ...


Theron Ware's Damnation and Catholicism, Then and Now...


In the Garden of Gethsemane, why did Peter strike at Malchus?


On a trip to Rome, an unexpected illness brings surprising grace...


March Madness: How Schools With Religious Affiliations Could Fare In 2024...


The Story Behind One Of Africa’s Smallest Catholic Churches...


German Bishops to Discuss Synodal Way With Vatican Amid Controversy...

A Dead Star Will Soon Spark a Once-in-a-Lifetime Display in Earth’s Skies...


Cardinal Pizzaballa became the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 2020. Since then, his rise as ‘papabile’ has been meteoric...
Edward Pentin
“It will be a difficult Easter,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Italian television last week as he offered a grim assessment of the worsening humanitarian crisis in war-torn Gaza. Calling on the international community to quickly halt the Israel-Hamas war, he said he was thinking of the “loneliness of Jesus in Gethsemane, which is now shared by all of us.”


Holy Week Prayers for Princess Catherine, King Charles and All Who Are Sick...
Joanna Bogle
The monarchy is a fixture of life in Britain. We record our history through the reigns of monarchs; we prefix, where appropriate, our public institutions with a royal title; and we follow the lives of prominent members of the royal family with genuine affection, a sense of pride, and sometimes almost-fanatical interest.


God’s generosity is beyond measure...
John Clark
When I started writing a monthly article for Seton Magazine sixteen years ago (it was a “newsletter” back then), I wrote quite a bit about my children. Over the past years, however, I haven’t mentioned my children as often in columns, so I thought I’d provide you long-time faithful readers with an update. Lisa and I have been blessed with nine children here on Earth...


Psalm 22 contains passage after passage prophetically predicting details of Good Friday...
Fr. Victor Feltes
A thousand years before Christ’s Passion, King David was inspired by the Holy Spirit to pen the Twenty-Second Psalm. Jesus quotes this psalm’s opening words from the Cross: “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” Psalm 22 contains passage after passage prophetically predicting details of Good Friday. It foretells how Christ’s enemies would deride him...


No One Envies Those Who Suffer...
Carrie Gress
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the Bennett family faces the gravest of circumstances when their youngest daughter, Lydia, runs off with the wicked George Wickham. Although the situation is eventually made far less grave than first thought, with Lydia and Wickham marrying, few of the Bennetts’ neighbors were willing to condole with the family during their dark trial...


Pope Francis on Palm Sunday: ‘Jesus Entered Jerusalem as a Humble and Peaceful King’...


What’s the Deal with Holy Week? 9 Things to Know and Share...
Jimmy Akin
Holy Week is the week preceding Easter Sunday. According to the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, “The Sixth Sunday [of Lent], on which Holy Week begins, is called, ‘Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord’” (No. 30). Holy Week thus begins on the Sixth Sunday of Lent, and the period is characterized by a variety of liturgical celebrations. These have changed over time, but the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states:


‘Dune: Part Two’ — False Messiahs and the Shifting Sands of Power...
Aaron Lambert
Stillsuits. Sandworms. Telepathic preborn babies. The weird world of Dune is a wonder to behold. With Dune: Part Two, director Denis Villeneuve has done what was previously thought to be impossible: He successfully adapted Dune to the big screen in a way that does justice to the complexity and emotional weight of the original story...


For Holy Week: A Rosary of the Penitential Psalms...


A perfect week, ironic invites, and the social network...


‘This college belongs to the Catholic Church’: Alumni, students fight for authenticity at Saint Mary’s College...


Preparing for the Beatific Vision...


On Religion: ‘Demos II’ Takes On Pope Francis And The Future Of Catholicism...


Fascinating new book explores deep roots of sex abuse crisis in 1600s and 1700s...


Students with Down Syndrome belong in our Catholic schools...


Can We Be Frank About the Catholic School Crisis?


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