When a Wedding Veil and Mourning Veil Merge

This vale of tears is full of sorrows but also joys. Sometimes they come together in ways only understood by the Almighty.

Demonic Deception of Kids’ Sports

The Evil One wants to separate us from the Eucharist, so he uses Sunday sports and activities.

A Shepherd in a Land of Martyrs

Fr. Alex Mugalaasi, the 41-year-old spiritual formator for Uganda’s five major seminaries, lets Our Lady illuminate his path to spiritually form Uganda’s future priests, some of whom will one day...

Where Demons Flee and Life Begins

At the rise of the moon at Metanoia Manor, shadows will move across bedroom walls like processions of ghosts. Screams split the stillness of this hidden corner of Louisiana, and are swallowed whole...

The Third Rail Our Hierarchy Avoids

By Kevin Wells - Few clergy will address, in specificity, the broadening third rail of LGBT ideologies, that each day seem to add to our multifaceted civilizational moral collapse.

Painful Offering: Redemptive Suffering in the Mystical Body

Jolly Deacon Armando was humming a Spanish tune and flipping hamburgers and turning over sausages beneath a clear blue sky at St. Joseph’s in Beltsville, Maryland last weekend. A few dozen parish...

The Day God Saved Me Through My Hero

The slow, silent and mostly invisible hand of God working in our lives sometimes punches through the veil to let us know, “I AM always with you.”

The memory of a Vianney-like priest lay hidden in the West Virginia mountains

The Strange Path of Fr. Joe

By Kevin Wells - Fr. Joe was a typical Catholic priest. But then something changed.

Coached by the Curé - Catholic Information Center

We invite you to a talk by Kevin Wells on his latest book, Coached by the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding...

Elegy of Darkness and Light in a Country Churchyard

By Kevin Wells - Msgr. Wells’ legacy and the unmarked slave graves at Sacred Heart stir the sensus fidei, urging bishops to focus on saving souls over gestures in a faith-fading world.

The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our Priests

A type of bishopric anti-fatherhood has led countless priests in America to live out vocations tainted by fear, torment, and silent despair.

The Unspoken Trial of the Orphaning of Our Priests

A type of bishopric anti-fatherhood has led countless priests in America to live out vocations tainted by fear, torment, and silent despair.

A Cajun Priest and the Acadian Solution to Soft Priests in a Soft Church

Fr. Michael Champagne grew up sweating it out alongside French-speaking tough Cajuns who memorialized their Acadian forebears through the grind of raw Catholic lives.

“In the Name of Every Man Who Hurt You, Forgive Me”

The haunting 2023 film, “The Sound of Freedom,” was a small window into a world made up of unspeakable human horrors. The coming sequel is sure to let more light into that darkness.

Vianney, Plump, and Meyer—Indiana’s Miracle Men

By Kevin Wells - Knowing he could not simply keep doing what had been done, a young priest tried something different: an imitation of something old.

Vianney, Plump, and Meyer—Indiana’s Miracle Men

By Kevin Wells - Knowing he could not simply keep doing what had been done, a young priest tried something different: an imitation of something old.