Why did they do it? Judas, the Jewish leaders, Pilate — why did they send Jesus to his death?
Governor Pilate was actually not eager to kill Jesus. He did not want to get involved in that religious squabble. Pilate declared three times that he found no guilt in Jesus, but then people were saying, “If you release him, you are not a Friend of Caesar!” When Pilate’s interests were threatened he acted selfishly rather than doing justice, and condemned to death an innocent man whom he had a duty to protect. We have a responsibility to care for the vulnerable too.
Mass Mentality: Priest’s Viral Video Spotlights Misunderstanding of the Eucharistic Sacrifice...
When an Indiana priest’s message on the Mass went viral on YouTube recently, the response revealed a hunger among Catholics to know more about the Church’s principal sacramental celebration. Father Jonathan Meyer of All Saints parish in Guilford, Indiana, was astounded when a 33-minute talk he had given at a Jan. 27 men’s conference in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, was picked up by the Servants of God YouTube channel in Australia, drawing more than a half million views and 1,432 comments.
Papal Doctor: Pope Has ‘No Particular Illnesses’ and ‘Is Doing Well Consistent With His Age’...
A Dead Star Will Soon Spark a Once-in-a-Lifetime Display in Earth’s Skies...
Cardinal Pizzaballa became the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem in 2020. Since then, his rise as ‘papabile’ has been meteoric...
“It will be a difficult Easter,” Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa told Italian television last week as he offered a grim assessment of the worsening humanitarian crisis in war-torn Gaza. Calling on the international community to quickly halt the Israel-Hamas war, he said he was thinking of the “loneliness of Jesus in Gethsemane, which is now shared by all of us.”
Holy Week Prayers for Princess Catherine, King Charles and All Who Are Sick...
The monarchy is a fixture of life in Britain. We record our history through the reigns of monarchs; we prefix, where appropriate, our public institutions with a royal title; and we follow the lives of prominent members of the royal family with genuine affection, a sense of pride, and sometimes almost-fanatical interest.
God’s generosity is beyond measure...
When I started writing a monthly article for Seton Magazine sixteen years ago (it was a “newsletter” back then), I wrote quite a bit about my children. Over the past years, however, I haven’t mentioned my children as often in columns, so I thought I’d provide you long-time faithful readers with an update. Lisa and I have been blessed with nine children here on Earth...
Psalm 22 contains passage after passage prophetically predicting details of Good Friday...
No One Envies Those Who Suffer...
In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the Bennett family faces the gravest of circumstances when their youngest daughter, Lydia, runs off with the wicked George Wickham. Although the situation is eventually made far less grave than first thought, with Lydia and Wickham marrying, few of the Bennetts’ neighbors were willing to condole with the family during their dark trial...
Pope Francis on Palm Sunday: ‘Jesus Entered Jerusalem as a Humble and Peaceful King’...
What’s the Deal with Holy Week? 9 Things to Know and Share...
Holy Week is the week preceding Easter Sunday. According to the General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, “The Sixth Sunday [of Lent], on which Holy Week begins, is called, ‘Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord’” (No. 30). Holy Week thus begins on the Sixth Sunday of Lent, and the period is characterized by a variety of liturgical celebrations. These have changed over time, but the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church states:
‘Dune: Part Two’ — False Messiahs and the Shifting Sands of Power...
For Holy Week: A Rosary of the Penitential Psalms...
A perfect week, ironic invites, and the social network...
Preparing for the Beatific Vision...
On Religion: ‘Demos II’ Takes On Pope Francis And The Future Of Catholicism...
The Violent World of Jesus of Nazareth...
5 Things to Know About the Liturgy for Good Friday...
The Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion in some respects looks like a traditional Mass with a rite (the veneration of the cross) added. It is not. First of all, it is not a Mass because no consecration of the Holy Eucharist takes place within it. In keeping with ancient tradition, Good Friday is the one day of the year the Church does not celebrate Mass...
Why a Louisiana excommunication is a canonical ‘hard case’...
A Louisiana deacon declared excommunicated this month had formally joined an Anglican parish community, before his bishop declared that he had incurred a formal canonical penalty. Deacon Scott Peyton’s excommunication has garnered national attention, because the deacon’s defection from the Church came after his son was abused by a priest.
Holy Week, the Annunciation and St. Dismas...
Happy feast of the Good Thief! (More or less.) There are no feast days observed during Holy Week. When March 25 falls during Holy Week, as it does this year, the great feast of the Annunciation is delayed to the Monday after Divine Mercy Sunday. Holy Week and the Easter Octave take precedence over all...
Jesus was not the first king to enter Jerusalem. But the other kings’ entrances were totally unlike his...
The great conqueror Alexander the Great entered Jerusalem in 329 B.C. as a giant man wearing a plumed helmet atop an enormous white warhorse. Seeing him, the city leaders quaked with fear. He demanded taxes, and got them, but he spared the city — perhaps because his teacher, Aristotle, taught him to admire monotheism.
Psychiatrist explains 2 great truths about human nature that have been rejected by our culture...
Pope Francis to Travel to Venice to Offer Mass in St. Mark’s Square, Vatican Announces...
Pope Francis will travel by motorboat along Venice’s canals and offer Mass in St. Mark’s Square during his visit to the “floating city,” the Vatican announced Monday. The Holy See Press Office has released the schedule for the pope’s upcoming day trip to Venice — the pope’s only scheduled trip so far in 2024.
The Plenary Indulgences of Holy Week, Easter Octave and Divine Mercy Sunday for Everyone...
Holy Week and Divine Mercy Sunday, present everyone with particular plenary indulgences that everyone has the opportunity to receive. Here’s how to gain them for yourselves, your loved ones in purgatory, and possibly even for some forgotten soul there. The plenary indulgences that we can receive on every day of Holy Week actually are of two kinds. Certain ones are specific to Holy Week itself...
Here’s what the defrocking of Vangheluwe suggests about the Rupnik scandal...
How Feminism Shattered Our Understanding of Motherhood...
Belgian Bishop Roger Vangheluwe Laicized 14 Years After Admitting Abuse...
Pope Francis has laicized Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, almost 14 years after the Belgian prelate resigned after admitting that he had abused a nephew. The apostolic nunciature to Belgium said in a March 21 statement that “serious new elements” had emerged in recent months...
A Lenten Refresher on the Parts of the Mass...
Theron Ware's Damnation and Catholicism, Then and Now...
In the Garden of Gethsemane, why did Peter strike at Malchus?
On a trip to Rome, an unexpected illness brings surprising grace...
March Madness: How Schools With Religious Affiliations Could Fare In 2024...
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