"He ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father" By Robert Wiesner For forty days the Apostles enjoyed the company of their beloved risen Jesus. This was to be the final training period for their ordained mission, the mission clearly stated by St. Matthew (20:19): “Go therefore and make disciples of [...]
Pilgrims to Rome — and "spiritual pilgrims" — can receive special graces during the coming Jubilee By Anna Artymiak Great Jubilee Year of 2000. St. Peter's Square during the world day dedicated to young people. (Photo Grzegorz Galazka) The jubilee logo, designed by Italian artist Giacomo Travisani. This year on Christmas Eve, [...]
In the battle for souls, God has placed the means to win in our hands By Marcellus Roberts * “Battle of David and Goliath” by Daniele da Volterra, Louvre Museum, Paris Wake up! This age in which we live is an age of legends, where spiritual truths transform the mundane into the mystical, and [...]
Money is just one of the things we serve in place of God By Anthony Esolen Christ and the Rich Young Man, painted in 1889 by Heinrich Hofmann (1824-1911) “No one can serve two lords,” says Jesus. “He will hate the one and love the other, or cleave to the one and despise the [...]
From the Homily of Pope Francis on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2013, now 11 years ago. It was just 11 days after Francis' March 13, 2013, election... St. Peter's Basilica — March 24, 2013 Entry into Jerusalem by the Italian Baroque painter from Verona, Alessandro Turchi (1578- 1649). The painting is now in the Hermitage [...]
By Lucy Gordan Bernini’s Baldacchino (Photo, Wikipedia) Self-portrait by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1623), now in Rome’s Borghese Gallery. (Photo, Wikipedia) Gian Lorenzo Bernini was Cardinal Maffeo Barberini’s favorite artist. On his ascent to the papal throne in 1623 Urban VIII remarked, “It’s a great fortune for you, O Cavaliere, to see Cardinal [...]
What faithful Catholic colleges are doing to reverse the trend against marriage By ITV staff According to a national January 2023 American Perspectives Survey of more than 5,000 adults aged 18 and older, including nearly 800 single adults, 43 percent of young women and 34 percent of young men have no interest in dating. The majority [...]
One mother's story of what happened to her daughter By ITV staff The last thing Mary and her husband expected when her daughter Kate left for a private college in a mid-size American city (pseudonyms are used to protect the family) was that Kate would begin “identifying” as a male by the end of her freshman [...]
An interview with Cardinal Newman Society president Patrick Reilly By ITV staff Countless Catholic families have faced the same dilemma over the past few decades: where can their children attend college and not have their faith opposed, ridiculed or worse — lost? The Catholic colleges and universities mom and dad once attended are now “Catholic” in [...]
56 years after the disastrous Land O' Lakes Declaration, faithful Catholic colleges and universities are thriving By ITV staff In 2009, Cardinal Newman Society founder and president Patrick Reilly presented Pope Benedict XVI with a copy of The Newman Guide and asked for his blessing on the work Regularly featured in Inside the Vatican [...]
