Blessed Stanley Francisco 'Aplas' RotherFather Roger Landry
This Saturday, September 23, in Oklahoma City, something historic and holy will be happening. Father Stanley Rother, the first native-born American priest martyr, will be beatified. In recent years, ...
Building A Bridge Toward the Kingdom Father Roger Landry
Last Friday at daily Mass, the Church pondered St. Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians, which succinctly and unambiguously states two of the most important truths for the faithful fulfillment of ...
Avoiding Embarrassing Situations Receiving Holy CommunionFather Roger J. Landry
I was recently making a retreat at a Monastery in the Catskills. At Sunday Mass, I was asked by the Chaplain to distribute the Precious Blood to the nuns and lay people in attendance. At one point there ...
A Captivating Model of Marian Devotion and Christian Charity Father Roger J. Landry
The Church exists to make saints, to continue Jesus' mission to save us and bring us to eternal life. In the final analysis, we either become holy -- in this world or thanks to the merciful cleansing ...
Reform from withinFather Roger Landry
This year marks the 500th anniversary of the launch of the Protestant Reformation. As we draw closer to Oct. 31, the date on which Martin Luther posted 95 theses on the door of All Saints' Church in Wittenberg, ...
A World War Being Waged Not With Weapons but Ideas Father Roger J. Landry
One of Pope Francis' most persistent prophetic protests -- perhaps the one most consistently ignored by secular media outlets -- has been against what he has vividly and aptly called "ideological colonization." ...
Unleashing the Gospel anewFather Roger Landry
For four decades, the popes have been calling the Church to a "new evangelization" or "re-evangelization," something that involves a mission not only to those who are not Catholic but to those who are ...
The Exclamation Point of the Fatima Apparitions Father Roger J. Landry
In the first article of this mini-series in celebration of the centenary of the apparitions in Fatima, we looked at how the Church, in approving private revelations as worthy of belief, does not oblige ...
