It all matters. That someone turns out the lamp, picks up the windblown wrapper, says hello to the invalid, pays at the unattended lot, listens to the repeated tale, folds the abandoned laundry, plays the game fairly, tells the story honestly, acknowledges help, gives credit, says good night, resists temptation, wipes the counter, waits at the yellow, makes the bed, tips the maid, remembers the illness, congratulates the victor, accepts the consequences, takes a stand, steps up, offers a hand, goes first, goes last, chooses the small portion, teaches the child, tends to the dying, comforts the grieving, removes the splinter, wipes the tear, directs the lost, touches the lonely, is the whole thing.
What is most beautiful, is least acknowledged.
What is worth dying for is barely noticed.
(Laura McBride, We are Called to Rise)
It’s strawberry season in Wisconsin. 🍓
This family farm is more than 150 years old and produces 150,000 pounds of strawberries each year.
Protect our farmland. Protect our Wisconsin.
The Catholic Church just finished the largest Cathedral in the world. There are more Catholics alive today than there at any time since Christ and we're growing faster than the global population.
Believe it or not, you are alive at the most Catholic moment in world history.
#VisitaPapaRTVE | La Orquesta Sinfónica de la JMJ y el coro de 400 voces interpretan el 'Salve Regina' al finalizar este acto multitudinario en la plaza de Cibeles de Madrid
This is the view of 1.2 million people from above. This is happening in Madrid, in the famous Plaza de Cibeles and its surroundings, where Pope Leo XIV will preside over the solemn Corpus Christi Mass, followed by a historic procession.
Pope Leo XIV has appointed @EWTN's head of news, Maria Montserrat Alvarado, as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, replacing Paolo Ruffini who has served as prefect since 2018. Alvarado will become the first laywoman to head a dicastery of the Roman Curia. She will take up her new position on November 1.
THE CHURCH FATHER WHO WROTE THIS IN 107 AD AND IT SILENCES EVERY PROTESTANT ARGUMENT
St. Ignatius of Antioch was a student of the Apostle John. He was arrested and sent to Rome to be eaten by lions.
On the way, he wrote seven letters. In 107 AD, within living memory of the Apostles, he wrote:
“Where the bishop is, there let the multitude of believers be; even as where Jesus is, there is the Catholic Church.” (Letter to the Smyrnaeans, 8:2)
This is the first recorded use of the term “Catholic Church” and it comes from a man who personally knew the Apostle who leaned on Jesus’ chest at the Last Supper.
He also wrote:
“Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions… They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not confess that the Eucharist is the flesh of our Savior Jesus Christ.”
Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The Catholic Church by name. Obedience to bishops in apostolic succession.
107 AD. Not the Council of Trent. Not the Middle Ages.
The next time someone tells you the Catholic Church invented these doctrines centuries later, show them Ignatius.
He wrote this on the way to die for it.
Who will share this?
“We have close to us an angelic spirit who never leaves us for an instant from the cradle to the grave, who guides and protects us like a friend or a brother.”
St. Padre Pio
Every day I hear of people returning to the Catholic faith.
Young people have grown up with pornography, anxiety, infertility, and antidepressants.
Some say the return to Catholicism is a fad.
To me it looks more like a jailbreak.
Until today, this has all been happening in secret. We have been working with the University of Dallas, Founders Classical, and Founders Bastrop, to launch the beginnings of an alternative to College Board’s AP. Today, for the first time in history, students took the first ever Classical Baccalaureate Exam (U.S. Government and Politics). The exam even included an oral component where students had to have a conversation with an adult about the foundations of American government. We made history today and College Board’s AP program just got a new competitor. This isn’t simply a battle between two companies, this is a battle between competing visions for the future of American education.