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Father Joseph Ratzinger 1969 Prediction of the Future of the Church

In a 1969 German radio broadcast, Father Joseph Ratzinger offered this prediction of the future of the Church: “The future of the Church can and will issue from those whose

St. John’s Bonfire on the Vigil of St. John the Baptist’s Nativity

Tonight is the vigil of my birthday. Oh yeah, it is also the vigil of St. John the Baptist’s birthday. 😉 For all my life, I never knew about St.

Secret Weapon for Increasing Mass Attendance: Serve Bacon at the Coffee Social

SMITHFIELD, UT – What started as a joke at St Simeon the Sulfite parish has become a weekly staple because Mass attendance has gone through the roof. “It’s pretty amazing,”

Cardinal Burke on the “Man Crisis”

Cardinal Burke on the “Man Crisis” The Church becomes very feminized. Women are wonderful, of course. They respond very naturally to the invitation to be active in the Church. Apart

Something Big is Coming this Wednesday!

I’m like a little kid just days before Christmas morning. I’m busting at the seams to tell someone – ANYONE – what we have planned for our nation during these

If Dad Takes Faith in God Seriously, So Will His Children

“And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall and stand in the breach before Me for the land …” Ezekiel 22:30 MEN … these

Cardinal Sarah: Ad Orientem is the Way to Put God Back at the Center of the Liturgy

  Cardinal Sarah: ‘How to put God back at the center of the liturgy’ Cardinal Robert Sarah, Appointed by Pope Francis as the Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and

Fr. James Martin’s Dangerous False Mercy

Fr. James Martin, the editor-at-large of America, recently posted a video on Facebook about the Orlando massacre. Fr. Martin objects to the bishops not making an explicit reference to the LGBT community,

Barnabas and the Knights

Homily given by Supreme Chaplain Archbishop William Lori during the Knights of Columbus State Deputies Meeting, June 11, 2016, the Feast of St. Barnabas Today the Church remembers the Apostle

The Church as Field Hospital – The Supernatural as Medicine

Not too long ago, I encouraged the pest control guy (while he was setting traps in my house) to come and check out the Mass on Sunday morning. A few