Laudem Gloriae

Forward Boldly Episode: On the Potential Closing of Holy Innocents Church ******* + Homily, Holy Innocents Parish (New York) 18 ...

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In the Secret Consistory where the divorced/remarried and the Eucharist were discussed, “Kasper’s theorem” received little conse...

Fresh from the little town of Undervelier in the midst of his pilgrimage on foot to Rome, Hilaire Belloc found himself on a ridge occupied b...

St. Thomas More was named after his patron saint, St. Thomas à Becket. Both men were born in the same district in London--Cheapside--and b...

Hilaire Belloc, in the midst of his pilgrimage by foot to Rome, stopped in a small village tucked away among the Jura mountains. As I was w...

King St. Louis IX of France embodied all that a monarch ought to be: he ruled with justice, integrity, generosity, and holiness. He and Q...

The Black Prince at the Battle of Crécy , Julian R. Story, 1888, oil on canvas, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia

One day, after Holy Communion, a large cross was shown her, the extremity of which she could not see, but it was all covered with flowers...

If you have ever seen a man die, remember that you, too, must go the same way. In the morning consider that you may not live till evening, a...

On the Importance of Laughter , by Dr. Donald DeMarco Why do we laugh? Life can wear people down. When it becomes too heavy, we need to co...

Urged by faith, We are obliged to believe and to hold that the Church is one, holy, catholic, and also apostolic. We firmly believe in her,...

He rose from the dead, and cried aloud: "Who will contend with me? Let him confront me." I have freed the condemned, brought the d...

Our Lord on suffering: Very pleasing to Me, dearest daughter, is the willing desire to bear every pain and fatigue, even unto death, for the...

It is often easier to accept, in a burst of generosity, the great sacrifices and sufferings of a singular occurrence, than the little, insig...

Only three of the original thirteen colonies allowed Catholics to vote. Every colony save Rhode Island prohibited Catholics from holding pub...

The Broken Path: How Catholic Bishops Got Lost in the Weeds of American Politics , Judie Brown The American bishops are to be commended for ...

"Teach us to number our days aright, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Psalm 90:12 Paris--Catacombs, Stephen Edelbroich

“To live without faith, without a patrimony to defend, without a steady struggle for truth, that is not living, but existing.” --Blessed Pie...

More from Abp. Sheen's autobiography: Materialists, humanists and atheists all take this world very seriously because it is the only wor...

The amount of humor that anyone gets out of the world is the size of the world in which he lives. Materialists have only this cosmos as the ...

It was my honor to have been named to a preconciliar commission--namely, the Catholic Action Commission. I recall that several of the member...

RealCatholicTV.com made a trip to St. Theresa's parish in Madalla, Nigeria, which suffered the Christmas bombings by Boko Haram. You can...

In spite of the fact that the Vagina Monologues has attempted to co-opt this holiday to focus on rape, human trafficking, lesbianism, and a...

St. Elizabeth of Hungary was betrothed to Blessed Louis of Thuringia at the tender age of four; he was eleven. She grew up at his court, ...

Cours Mirabeau, Aix-en-Provence

Abp. Fulton Sheen on a retreat he gave at the Trappist monastery in Gethsemani, Kentucky: A particularly striking scene at the abbey was Com...

When it is all over you will not regret having suffered; rather you will regret having suffered so little, and suffered that little so badly...

Hat on a café chair , Richard Kalvar, Paris, 1971

Here's a very detailed timeline with behind-the-scenes information about this apostolate. Other bloggers with little to no information ...