3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (74+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Thursday, September 10, 2026 Sheen continues to speak to young Catholics. He was fiery without being cruel, polished without seeming artificial and uncompromising without losing sight of the audience in front of him. Raymond and Mel…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (77+ words) Diane Montagna on Monday, September 7, 2026 What happens when a ruling from Rome reaches a diocesan chancery declaring that its suspension of a priest was “invalid,” and chancery officials choose not to tell its clergy and faithful what Rome has decided?...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (76+ words) Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register on Monday, September 7, 2026 As Church of England cathedrals face deep financial strain, venues once central to Britain’s Christian history are hosting tribute acts, ‘raves in the nave’ and becoming nightclubs — prompting charges of desecration. Raymond…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (486+ words) Brad Miner on Sunday, September 6, 2026 There was once a monument in Rome called Milliarium Aureum: the Golden Milestone. The Emperor Augustus erected it in the Forum in about 20 B.C. All distances in Ancient Rome were said to be marked from (or…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (64+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 A weeklong pilgrimage by the Fulton Sheen Movement will lead participants to the places and traditions that shaped Fulton Sheen’s life. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (267+ words) Hilaire Belloc on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (123+ words) Dear Lord, here it is finished, this poor little mass. Have I just written sacred music, or rather, sacrilegious music? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. The post On his ‘Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (356+ words) St. Pius X on Friday, August 21, 2026 2. Sacred music should consequently possess, in the highest degree, the qualities proper to the liturgy, and in particular sanctity and goodness of form, which will spontaneously produce the final quality of universality. It must…...