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Hundreds show for NJ procession with Fatima pilgrim statue

May 22, 2023

A Mother’s Day procession with a pilgrim statue of Our Lady of Fatima drew hundreds to the streets of Newark, New Jersey. The Catholic display came in honor of the 106th anniversary of the first apparition of Fatima on May 13, 1917, and begins a time

May 22, 2023

NEWPORT — When he grows up, St. Charles Borromeo parishioner and third grader Teddy Howell wants to be a podcaster and a priest. At 9 years old, he already has achieved one of those goals with the recent launch of his podcast: “Kid’s Bible In A Year

The Apostolic Origin of Marian Consecration

May 14, 2023

When I first heard someone speak of being “consecrated to Mary,” warning bells went off in my head. The Holy Spirit had already moved me, over the course of a year, from a complete rejection of the Church’s Marian teaching to an acceptance of Mary’s

A Springtime Madrigal of Delight and Woe

May 10, 2023

Spring comes late but most delightfully to Wyoming, where I currently reside. The daffodils and crocuses are starting to bloom; and even if snowstorms occur every few weeks, most of the past month has been quite warm. The streams are growing with snowmelt off the

A Unique Kind of Motherhood

May 9, 2023

After 24 years of serving as prioress general of the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist, Mother Assumpta Long, OP is well-acquainted with the sacrifices required of motherhood. As she was growing up in Jackson, Tennessee, Mother Assumpta’s parents modeled this sacrificial love.

A Guide to Marian Prayer

May 9, 2023

She stands as a holy sentinel, directing and pointing. “Do whatever he tells you.” Five simple words of great wisdom, they take what seems complicated and make it accessible. “Do whatever he tells you” (John 2:5). It echoes God the Father when he said, “listen to him”

The Love of God for Repentant Sinners

May 9, 2023

Consider the old saying: “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted?” And you, sinning soul, “you have played the harlot with many lovers” (Jer.

What Mary’s Fiat Shows Us about Christ — And Ourselves

May 8, 2023

There is one word that defines for us, more than any other, how Mary responds to God’s plan for the redemption of the world and her indispensable role in it. Fiat. This is the Latin word for what in English is let it be done to

How to Make Sorrow a Virtue

May 8, 2023

We are increasingly a sorrowful and lonely nation. There has been a decades-long rise in unhappiness and “deaths of despair” (suicide, drug and alcohol poisoning, and alcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis). Americans even report losing friends: according to one report, the proportion of those who claim

The Coronation of King Charles III: A Reflection

May 5, 2023

May 6, 2023, marks Coronation Day in the United Kingdom. Charles III became King the moment that his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, died in September last year, but his formal crowning in Westminster Abbey—where sovereigns have been enthroned for a thousand years—has had to wait