Category: St. Thomas More

People Are Decisive

by bcadmin | May 28, 2022 | 2022, 2022 Commencement Address at Thomas More College, appetites and anesthetics, Catholic Church, Catholic leadership in American life, Catholicism, Columns, compatibility of Catholic teaching and American culture, Francis X. Maier, Georges Bernanos, Jesus Christ, News, People Are Decisive, Robert Royal, St. Thomas More, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

For most of my adult life I’ve carried around a quotation from Mao Zedong. It sounds weird, doesn’t it. Mao…

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More to come

by bcadmin | May 27, 2022 | Column, June 2022, Magazine, News, St. Thomas More | 0 |

Organising a school’s St Thomas More Day has its challenges

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Ask God for courage to defend the voiceless, nuncio says at L.A. Red Mass

by bcadmin | Oct 23, 2021 | Archbishop Christophe Pierre, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Red Mass, St. Thomas More | 0 |

he papal nuncio to the United States called on members of the Los Angeles legal community to defend the voiceless of society even in the face of political pressure or the threat of being “canceled.”

The Martyrs of August

by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2021 | Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, Edith Stein, Hippolytus, martyrdom, Maximillian Kolbe, News, Pontian, Sixtus, St. Bartholomew, St. John the Baptist, St. lawrence, St. Thomas More, The Dispatch, The Holy Maccabees | 0 |

Some months, like August, seem to be populated by a very long procession of martyrs: The Holy Maccabees (1), Sixtus and his companions (7), Edith Stein (9), Lawrence (10), Pontian and Hippolytus (13), Maximilian Kolbe […]

St. Thomas More and the tribulations of our time

by bcadmin | Jun 21, 2021 | Features, News, Opinion, Religious Freedom, St. John Fisher, St. Thomas More | 0 |

State-imposed lockdowns, suspended sacraments, locked churches, city riots, vandalized statues, “cancelling,” educational upheavals—these tribulations rippling from COVID-19 have rocked Catholics and the practice of our faith. As the pandemic gripped t…

St. Paul parishes offer ‘sign of unity’ in joint eucharistic procession

by bcadmin | Jun 8, 2021 | Body and Blood of Christ, Corpus Christi, Eucharist, Father Erich Rutten, Father R.J. Fichtinger, Featured, Gift of the Holy Spirit, Joint eucharistic procession, Local News, News, Rondo neighborhood, Sign of unity, St. Peter Claver, St. Thomas More | 0 |

A stiff southwest wind whipped over the Interstate 94 bridge at Lexington Avenue June 6, as Father R.J. Fichtinger of St. Thomas More in St. Paul raised a monstrance holding the Eucharist and offered a blessing for St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood. The short stop on the bridge was part of a joint event by St. Thomas More and St. Peter Claver parishes to celebrate the feast of Corpus Christi, the body and blood of Christ.

In St. Paul, two parishes offer ‘Peaceful Presence’ during, after Chauvin trial

by bcadmin | Apr 22, 2021 | Black Lives Matter, Daunte Wright, Derek Chauvin, Everlyn Wentzlaff, Featured, George Floyd, Joan Pasiuk, Local News, Mary Fratto, News, Peaceful Presence, Racism, St. Peter Claver, St. Thomas More | 0 |

On the evening of April 20, Wentzlaff said the time in prayer has meant “being in spirit, being in a peaceful place where I can be still, and listen to what God would have me do during this time.”

Giving a damn (about work, life, and faith)

by bcadmin | Nov 23, 2020 | Blaise Pascal, Faith, life, News, St. Thomas More, The Dispatch, Victor Hugo, Work | 0 |

Remove modern cultural sentimental accretions from the Catholic faith, and a muscular Church Militant emerges from the Catholic tradition. We are in an epic, life-long battle for the salvation of souls. Hence, military metaphors are […]

Genealogy Offers Opportunities to Pray for the Souls in Purgatory

by bcadmin | Nov 10, 2020 | Faith & Spirituality, family, Featured, News, Prayer, Purgatory, St. Thomas More | 0 |

Genealogy Offers Opportunities to Pray for the Souls in Purgatory It was a crisp November. As I watched the State Trooper firmly leveling the brim of his hat and striding towards my car, many things went through my mind. Foremost, the mixture of curiosity and embarrassment over what my two sons were thinking in the back seat and that the flashing lights somehow looked autumnal […]

Elections – in God’s Providence

by bcadmin | Nov 8, 2020 | 2020, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, David Bonagura Jr., Elections – in God’s Providence, Father Jean Pierre de Caussade, Father John Hardon, Jesus Christ, News, St. Thomas More, The Catholic Thing | 0 |

David G. Bonagura Jr. on the election: Easter glory is not about things in this world turning out well but eternal union with God in heaven.

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More US churches sue to challenge COVID-19 restrictions

by bcadmin | Aug 14, 2020 | Associated Press, Catholic Church, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, News, quarantine, religious liberty, social distancing, St. Thomas More | 0 |

Churches in California and Minnesota, backed by a conservative legal group, filed lawsuits this week against the governors of their states challenging restrictions imposed due to the coronavirus outbreak that they contend are violations of religious liberty.

But God’s First

by bcadmin | Jul 6, 2020 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, St. Thomas More, Weekly Headlines | 0 |

Before nine o’clock on July 6, 1535, the Lord Chancellor of England was conducted to Tower Hill, London, where he lost his head for the crime of keeping his head. As Joseph Addison said, “He did not look upon the severing of his head from his body as a circumstance that ought to produce any […]