Today is the Feast of St Ignatius of Antioch, a very important figure in the early Church. He was the third bishop of Antioch (Peter being the first, before Peter went to Rome), and also a disciple of the Apostle John. He was martyred in the Roman Coliseum circa 107 AD, having been thrown to […]
Ever wonder exactly why Jesus chose to ride into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday on a donkey? It was no accident. In this video, filmed on location at the Church of All Nations in Jerusalem, Cale explains how Jesus fulfills Old Testament prophecies as a new and greater Solomon, the “Son of David”, not only as […]
Sister Theresa Aletheia Noble, the nun behind the ever-growing memento mori phenomenon, interviewed for the Verbum blog: Sister, you came back to the Church after becoming an atheist as a teenager. What led you back to the Church and to your vocation with the Daughters of Saint Paul? I first doubted whether God really existed […]
(My latest for Catholic Answers Magazine.) These days I take a lot of heat for my name. When I introduce myself as “Cale”, I quickly have to add, “not spelled like the vegetable.” This often leads to a bit of repartee, in which I explain that my father was a big fan of the famed […]
Christopher Check, President of Catholic Answers, writing for Catholic Answers Magazine: A good bit of the political rhetoric that followed the El Paso and Dayton massacres argued that we can arrest or reverse immoral behavior with legislative, therapeutic, or technological solutions. We have heard calls for more federal money to address mental illness, more legal […]
Rod Dreher, interviewing J.D. Vance for The American Conservative regarding Vance’s reception into the Catholic Church: Dreher: Why Catholicism? Why now? Vance: I became persuaded over time that Catholicism was true. I was raised Christian, but never had a super-strong attachment to any denomination, and was never baptized. When I became more interested in faith, […]
Elizabeth Merrill, writing for ESPN about the journey of Villanova basketball legend Shelly Pennefather: Twenty-five years old and not far removed from her All-America days at Villanova, Pennefather was in her prime. She had legions of friends and a contract offer for $200,000 to play basketball in Japan that would have made her one of the […]
George Weigel, writing in Catholic World Report on what amounts to a total demolition of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family in Rome: There is a history here, and it’s worth revisiting in order to get the destruction underway into clearer focus. Despite the global media addiction to the “liberal/conservative” trope […]
We live in an age that is somewhat obsessed with genealogies. Various companies like Ancestry.com and 23andMe offer you the chance to mail in a sample of your DNA for an opportunity to discover more about your family tree, or where your ancestors came from (although giving one’s genetic info to a private firm amy […]