Recapturing Romanitas
James
Writing for the Catholic Herald, Father Alexander Lucie-Smith unpacks an important and widely overlooked concept known as romanitas. He star...
Melville on Secularization
William
Living in 21st century America can feel like standing with Matthew Arnold by the Strait of Dover, watching the sea retreat into the ni...
1866 to 2020 – The Incredible Story of a Light in the Darkness
Cream City Catholic
If you told someone the Catholic Church was experiencing an incredible resurgence in the postmodern world we live in now, they may wonder i...
Saint Michael the Archangel
EMR
He fascinates us. But why?What is less fashionable than a strong man? Than a soldier? Than the Man in the White Hat? He's so 1955. He's so...
Titian’s Assumption of the Blessed Virgin
A.L.P.
Where else would you see a bright fiery sunset enlivening Renaissance palaces, but in Venice? This is a city of saints and their relics, gre...
Saint Mary Major
EMR
Today is the feast of the dedication of the Roman basilica of Saint Mary Major, one of only four major basilicas in the world. The others ar...
A Day in the Life of a Police Officer
Cream City Catholic
A Milwaukee Police Officer who recently converted to the Catholic Faith kindly shared his thoughts with Cream City Catholic about life as a city cop and how the...
Bishop Hying: Remembering Cardinal George
Bishop Hying
Note: Cardinal Francis George of Chicago died five years ago today. At that time, Bishop Donald Hying wrote a personal reflection on his life for Cream City Cat...
Seeing the Beauty of Spiritual Communion
Jody
When the COVID-19 pandemic led to restrictions on public Masses and sacramental reception of Holy Communion, a sort of tension seemed to emerge. On the one han...
The Strength of Close-Knit Catholic Communities
William
"Live in the culture, be a part of the culture, but don't be of the world." "Live in the mainstream in order to reshape the mainstream." "Be the invisible...
Easter Mass in the Parking Lot
James
Easter Sunday Masses in the parish parking lot went off without hitch today at Saint Stanislaus. It was a beautiful and certainly unprecedented Easter experien...
Awakening at the Tomb
EMR
You go to the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre when you want the real thing. What you can't find in Milwaukee you will get in Jerusalem. This is the place where t...
Easter Mass at Saint Stanislaus
Cream City Catholic
As the nation and world grapple with the ramifications of COVID-19, there has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks, both here and on other Catholic forums,...
Triduum in Local Art
James
Milwaukee parishes house beautiful works of art that call to mind the events of the Paschal Triduum. Here are some examples.Saint Joseph ChapelSaint...
A Plan to Restore Access to the Sacraments – Part 2 – How We Win
Cream City Catholic
In case you missed Part 1, check that out first for more context.In order to restore access to the Sacraments, we need to clearly define the problems we're...
A Plan to Restore Access to the Sacraments – Part 1 – One Man’s Analysis of COVID-19
Cream City Catholic
image credit: © angelinachirkova04/06/2020: Edited to add an additional data source with extensive testing (South Korea). Updated references from CFR to IF...