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REPLACED WITH .htaccess CACHE CONTROL Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers Bible Library A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Pope Meets Head of Divided Syro-Malabar Church, Tells Kerala’s Faithful: ‘Unity Is a Duty’ A Lesson in Kenosis from the Solar Eclipse... Fr. Damian Ference The Feast of the Annunciation and the solar eclipse happened on the same day this year, April 8, and it was one of the most memorable days of my life. Part of the reason for me writing this essay is to get all my thoughts out, because I can’t stop thinking about it, and I can’t stop talking about it. Even when I haven’t planned to do so, I wind up mentioning the eclipse in homilies... Scrupulosity: When Piety Becomes an Affliction... Crime novelist Agatha Christie is often seen as stodgy, but did you know she became a surfing pioneer in her 30s? Pope Francis: ‘We Entrust Mothers to the Protection of Mary, Our Heavenly Mother’... Bishop Thomas Paprocki: Biden mocked the Catholic faith by invoking the Blessed Trinity in his pro-abortion message... 10 Life-Changing Daily Rules of Life, From St. John XXIII... Did Egyptian monks pave the way for St. Patrick? Phil Lawler The book opens like a mystery novel. The year is 2006. An Irish farmer, digging for peat, notices an odd shape in his bucket. Looking carefully, he discovers that it is a very old book. Bringing it to experts, he learns that it is a psalter, more than a thousand years old, written on papyrus, bound in leather... Priest Plunges School Into Darkness to Save Children From Marauding Gunmen... 7 Suggestions for Becoming More Childlike... Michael Warren Davis One day, I was sitting at our kitchen table watching a compilation of ads from the early 2000s. Like all Millennials, I’m a slave to nostalgia. One of them hit a little too hard, though: the commercial for York’s Wild Kingdom. For those who didn’t grow up in northern New England, York’s Wild Kingdom... Exploring little-known sites in the Holy Land: Stairway to the Sanhedrin, Chapel of the Ascension, St. Stephen’s Battleground, and the (Empty) Tomb of Our Lady ... Cardiac Attest: How the Sacred Liturgy Can Ignite Souls with Sacred Heart of Christ... A Museum Employee in Germany Was Fired for Putting Up His Own Art... How Catholics Should Approach Media Heading Into Next Election... Mary Margaret Olohan It is a truth universally acknowledged that pretty much no one trusts the news” anymore. You can’t really blame the American public for not believing the stories that fill their news feeds when so many legacy newsrooms are filled with activist reporters masquerading as unbiased journalists. We live in a time when men claim to be women and get away with it, when the innocence of our children is flaunted... Company Fires Florida Catholic for Marking His Pronouns ‘Assigned by God’... Cor Ad Cor Loquitur: We Can Deepen Our Friendships by Deepening Our Conversations... Daniel Gordon Aristotle famously wrote that no one would want to go on living without friends—even if he possessed all other goods. That is quite the claim! Is it really the case that if you had all of the pleasure, and influence, and beauty, and wealth, and leisure, and wisdom you could imagine—that you would still not want to live without friends? No Church, no witness to the world. No Eucharist, no Church. And no priests, no Eucharist... Francis X. Maier The philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre once described humans as dependent, rational animals,” arguing in his text that, as creatures, we need the virtues. This makes sense, because none of us is really independent” or self-sufficient.” Each of us is imperfect. We need others to complete and support us. They need us for the same reason... How to Manage (and Even Embrace) Transition as a Priest... Patrick Lencioni Transition is a challenge that every priest encounters but how do you not only navigate but embrace it. Oftentimes the challenge comes not singularly in the change but primarily in the loss. When these losses come it is absolutely necessary that our priests come to terms, respond, ceremonialize, and finally ask for a brother or member of Christ who reminds and encourages them of their purpose, picture, plan, and part to play in the midst of that loss. SUBSCRIBE! Enter your email address: New Advent is edited by Kevin Knight (webmaster newadvent.org)‘Be unapologetic in your masculinity,’ Super Bowl winning kicker Harrison Butker tells Benedictine College male students... Father Robert Spitzer’s 4 Levels of Happiness and Your Path to Personal Flourishing... How We Got Concussions So Wrong... What is love? Love is to will the good of the other. But what does that mean? Beethoven, Garth Brooks and Tom Brady Converge at the Vatican... Fr. Raymond de Souza It was an inspired choice for the Vatican to hold its World Meeting on Human Fraternity in the same week as the bicentennial of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a sublime anthem and prayer for universal brotherhood. From the sublime to the ... well, less sublime; Garth Brooks and Tom Brady will be on hand, too. Archbishop Fulton Sheen traced abortion and today’s moral chaos to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was right. Here’s why... Being a pilgrim is not easy, as Dorothy Day shows... David Mills We once had a pastor who often, almost in every homily, described the Christian life as a journey.” The word’s a good go-to image for the Christian life, but it’s not the best one. The Christian life isn’t just a journey, though, it’s a particular type of journey. By itself, the image says that you’re moving but not where you’re going and why... Wise men listen when hypocrites speak. We’re all at least slightly hypocritical, but Christ still calls us to speak of his mercies... David Deavel I have a question,” my student said ominously as he sat in the chair in my office. I braced internally and probably externally—my heart is worn on my whole demeanor. When he asked it, I was relieved: How can I be a theology major and keep sinning?” You can’t go for long in Christian life without discovering what St. John Henry Newman meant when he said, To know is one thing, to do is another; the two things are altogether distinct.” Did you know that this beautiful Irish island was once a concentration camp for Catholic priests under Cromwell? The transitional diaconate is integral to the Catholic Church... A moveable feast, Twitter bishops, and too many whales... Ed Condon Depending on where you are, or were yesterday, you’ve either celebrated the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord or will do so this Sunday. There are three tiers of canon law at play here, and people often ask us what the deal is, what exactly their obligations are, and even how fast and loose you can play pilgrim across diocesan lines to celebrate it according to your day of preference. Hidden Google Maps Features You Should Know About... In Echoes of Cardinal Pell Media Gag Order, Australian Judge Extends Ban Worldwide on X Sharing Video of Sydney Bishop’s Stabbing... The AP says orthodox Catholics are growing too fast... Terry Mattingly A recent Associated Press feature is framed with bad news — that progressive Catholics in the United States are experiencing pain because of the rising numbers of young priests and young adults (especially parents with, wink-wink, lots of children) seeking a more pro-Catholic Catechism approach to faith. But are the orthodox Catholics out of step with the growing churches of Africa, Asia and much of the Global South, or are they clashing with the shrinking churches of Europe and parts of North and South America? San Antonio Archbishop García-Siller Deletes Social Media Posts About Gaza War, Says He ‘Deeply Regrets ... Misunderstanding’ ... What Our Lord did is awfully strange. For starters: How, exactly, did Jesus ‘Ascend?’... Tom Hoopes The Easter Season is drawing to a close after 40 days. Before he left the earth behind, Jesus went to great lengths to show us what he wants us to do after he is gone, and it’s on clear...