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Friday of the First Week of Lent; Ember Friday - March 14, 2025 - Liturgical Calendar | Catholic Culture

1 month ago | catholicculture.org

The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Matilda (895-968) (also known as
Feast of the Presentation of the Lord - February 02, 2025 - Liturgical Calendar | Catholic Culture

2 months ago | catholicculture.org

Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord which occurs forty days after the birth of Jesus and is also known as Candlemas Day, since the blessing and procession of candles is included in today's liturgy. See the Prayer Section for the full rite of the Procession and
Vance vs. the bishops on immigration, Part III

2 months ago | catholicculture.org | Phil Lawler

Rounding out the argument that I began here and continued here: Thus far I have demonstrated that: the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is not “the Church,” but an organization formed to assist the bishops, and that organization is now primarily involved in fulfilling government contracts, and the fulfillment of government contracts is not a charitable endeavor but a business relationship, but the terms of that business relationship are unusual, because government contracts are...
St. Francis de Sales-Introduction to the Devout Life | Full

Jan 24, 2025 | catholicculture.org | James T. Majewski

Listen to this podcast on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS Feed | YouTube ChannelThis is a listener-supported podcast! Thanks for your help! “Be sure that wherever our lot is cast we may and must aim at the perfect life.” Written over 400 years ago, Introduction to the Devout Life is still one of the most popular books for those pursuing holiness. St. Francis de Sales explains how to turn that desire for sanctity into resolutions that yield grace-filled results.
The $5 billion cost of ecclesiastical corruption

Jan 16, 2025 | catholicculture.org | Phil Lawler

Five billion dollars. $5,000,000.000.00 Catholic dioceses and religious orders in the United States have spent a bit more than that in the past 20 years to settle the financial costs of the sex-abuse scandal. That figure does not include the settlements paid out before the scandal emerged in the headlines: settlements that routinely involved non-disclosure agreements.
McElroy, McCarrick, and the Catholic Left | Catholic Culture

Jan 15, 2025 | catholicculture.org

What is this thing on the Catholic Left, where episcopal malfeasance is no biggie as long as the bishop is an ideological ally?
Quick Hits: Francis & Biden; Episcopal self-control; and…Words

Jan 14, 2025 | catholicculture.org | Jeff Mirus

Years ago we developed a commentary category on CatholicCulture.org called “Quick Hits”, the goal being to make a series of rapid-fire points about the news, without belaboring those points. We haven’t used this category often lately, but the last ten days have offeredtoo many opportunities to resist. Consider: Pope Francis and Joe BIden: Many excellent Catholics have resolved to stop calling negative attention to Pope Francis (or to stop saying negative things about him).
Confirmed: the corruption Pope Francis chose not to expose

Jan 14, 2025 | catholicculture.org | Phil Lawler

This week, with the publication of his new book, Pope Francis has added one important link to the chain of evidence regarding the fight against Vatican corruption. In April 2012, Pope Benedict created a special commission of three senior cardinals (Herranz, Tomko, and DeGiorgi) to investigate the nasty Vatican infighting that had resulted in the leading of confidential documents that was quickly dubbed the “Vatileaks” scandal.
Feast of the Baptism of the Lord - January 12, 2025 - Liturgical Calendar | Catholic Culture

Jan 12, 2025 | catholicculture.org

Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord. This feast brings to an end the season of Christmas. Ordinary Time lasts from the day after this feast to the Tuesday before Lent. The Church recalls Our Lord's second manifestation or epiphany which occurred on the occasion of
Not ordinary bread, please, but the Bread of Life

Jan 10, 2025 | catholicculture.org | Jeff Mirus

One of the most encouraging recent news stories is this one: “Philadelphia archbishop launches plan for ‘missionary hubs’. Without intending an excessively invidious comparison, I will mention that many dioceses place a great deal of emphasis on their programs for materially assisting those who are materially poor, but far fewer seem to emphasize their programs for spiritually assisting those who are spiritually poor.