The Sisterhood of St. John the Divine
New Pilgrim Path Website of the Week
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Interior Monasticism
I am no monk. I think it wise to begin an essay with a remark that is both true and verifiable. The truth of this statement could be demonstrated in at least three ways. First, […]
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This Sunday, a hard hope that shakes the world…
This Sunday, the Second Sunday of Advent (Year B), the Gospel prepares us for all three comings of Christ: In our lives, at the Second Coming, and at Christmas. What we need for each is hope, but not the sunny optimism we associate with the word “hope.” We need the serious hope of John the Baptist, St. Peter and Isaiah.
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Bishops who say they’ll give Communion to Biden are giving scandal to their brother bishops, to priests, and to the Catholic faithful…
Readers may recall that during the 2004 presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry led the Democratic ticket. As a Catholic, Kerry held certain policy views that conflicted with the moral beliefs of his Church. This led to internal tensions among U.S. bishops about how to handle the matter of Holy Communion for Catholic public officials who publicly and persistently diverge…
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Bishop’s election in the Swiss diocese of Chur highlights local Catholic divisions…
Switzerland’s Diocese of Chur, which was supposed to welcome a new bishop following the vote of the cathedral chapter on Nov. 23, is still vacant — because the cathedral’s 22 canons unexpectedly have rejected all three candidates proposed by the Vatican. A year and a half after Bishop Vitus Huonder retired at the conclusion…
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COVID vaccines and fetal tissues: the moral calculus…
Set aside, for a moment, the practical and medical questions about any Covid vaccine. (Will it work? Will it be safe? Will it have serious side effects?) Let me return to a question that I raised in in April and again in May: Should Catholics accept a vaccine that has been developed using fetal tissue from abortions? Since Catholic moralists have expressed contradictory answers to this question…
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How an agnostic med student’s refusal to train for abortion ended up leading her to the Catholic Church…..
Dr. Alicia Thompson didn’t grow up with any kind of religious background, but when she went to med school to become an OB/GYN, and was met with the decision of whether or not to train to do abortions, she found herself at a moral crossroads. She began to dig deeper to better understand her own conscience…
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