Bilgrimage

Harriet Sherwood reports in the London paper The Guardian today that the Catholic archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols,...

It’s so strange to hear people lamenting that they are deprived of church now, when many of those same people have been perfectly content ...

Coronavirus: A Spanish bishop has hit out at the “bombardment” of the faithful with coronavirus TV broadcast and livestreamed Masses, aski...

Meditation points for Good Friday, all drawn from things I've read over the years, notes jotted down in my journals:...

For National Catholic Reporter , Father Thomas Reese reports that the German Catholic bishops' conference has chosen to table th...

In response to my posting earlier today about Pope Francis's choice to include women among those whose feet he washed in the Holy...

Catholic News Service distinguishes itself again (NOT!) with this bit of shlock touting the virtues of the "reformed reformed...

For Palm Sunday, the Gospel Keys group of Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, performing the traditional African-American spiritual,...

And, as top leaders of some Christian churches use their high positions and energies to spread toxic lies designed to assist a partic...

So many droppings, so little time.  I want to frame today's piece with a snippet that a reader sent to Andrew Sullivan recently.  ...

Father Norbert Dlabal, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Goodland, KS, and Holy Ghost in Sharon Springs, KS, weighs in on the ...

This from a Facebook page linked to mine, a page belonging to a young home-schooling mother who is Catholic.  And Catholic again.  Cath...

And speaking of the "new" liturgical translations (I just did so in my posting about Michael Iafrate's music): as I...

More Christmas-season music (and music for meditation and inspiration all year 'round), and this, too, is a resource provided by ...

And to feed the spirit when hope is challenged: I like this Huffington Post article surveying the way in which cultures around the w...

For Hanukkah: the Maccabeats tell the Hannukah story with verve, style, and humor.  A happy Hanukkah to all.

That movement to reLatinize the Catholic Mass?  It may not be entirely beside the point: As this Huffington Post article notes ,...

And for a bit of fun as the seasonal madness (shop, shop, drop, drop) reaches its peak: whoever crafted the "Christmas Cookies R...

Priests Concelebrating Mass I very much like Michael Peppard's Commonweal blog posting about the "new" (orotund and ...

Eugene Kennedy's take on the "new" Catholic liturgical translations: as Rome burns to the ground, it's doing some mi...