NEWS FROM ST JOHN CANTIUS.

On Friday, August 21, the Church celebrates the feast day of St. Pius X. He truly was an amazing individual and pope who practiced humility and practiced it discretely. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was born 2 June 1835 and died on 20 August 1914. He was head of the...

As a young, newly ordained priest, I admired a senior priest who was gifted, beloved, and had changed countless lives. But soon I learned that he had fallen in catastrophic and destructive ways. The painful juxtaposition of good and evil was complex to process. How...

We all need quiet time to ourselves every once and awhile. Jesus in the Gospel is seeking quiet time. His very best friend just died, St. John the Baptist. Jesus sought a deserted place to pray, to think, and to mourn the loss of his cousin/friend. The crowds however,...