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The Holy Spirit and the eucharistic revivalFather Roger J. Landry

As we approach Pentecost during the first year of the three-year-plus Eucharistic Revival revivifying the Church in the United States, it's fitting to deepen our awareness and appreciation for the ...

Divine Mercy and the Eucharistic Revival Father Roger J. Landry

Catholics can easily recall when Jesus instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist: during the first Mass, which began during the Last Supper with the words of consecration and finished the following afternoon ...

Praying for Pope FrancisFather Roger J. Landry

Ten years ago this Monday, March 13, at 8:22 p.m. Rome time, the 266th Peter walked out for the first time onto the Balcony of Blessing in the center of the faÇade of St. Peter's Basilica in ...

Slandering and spying on traditional Catholics Father Roger J. Landry

On Feb. 8, former FBI special agent turned federal whistleblower Kyle Seraphin published online a Jan. 23, 2023, internal memorandum by the FBI's Richmond Field Office in which it advocated spying ...

The life, death, funeral, and legacy of Pope BenedictFather Roger J. Landry

Normally the death and funeral of a successor of St. Peter takes place within the context of a major distraction. The routine shock that comes even when death is expected, the grief that accompanies the ...

Pope Benedict's Augustinian Papal Conversions Father Roger J. Landry

When Pope Benedict traveled to Pavia in 2007 to pray at the tomb of his theological mentor and inspiration St. Augustine, he focused on how the great fourth- and fifth-century doctor was "one of the greatest ...

The biggest news of all in 2022Father Roger J. Landry

When I first became a Diocesan newspaper editor, I had the pious, albeit mischievous, desire to have big front-page article with the thick bolded headline, "Jesus Christ Coming To Our Diocese!" That's, ...

The highspeed lane to holiness Father Roger J. Landry

In this month of November dedicated to a Church-wide meditation on the four last things and to the practical imperative to become holy, so that after death and judgment we might enter eternally into communion ...