Category: Catholic Church

• How broken must we become

  How broken must we all become, Holy Father, before we turn our eyes to You? You are allowing separation and division to prevail all around us and throughout the world. The plagues of our time — both physical and spiritual — seem to multiply daily — Covid surely, but also the desecration of Your churches…

  Mary Adrienne

  January 26, 2021

  Benedict Option, Catholic Church, Coronavirus

• Have a Holy Thursday

  I struggled early on after my conversion to Catholicism with whether to soldier through some of the challenges I was experiencing or whether to revert back to Anglo-Catholicism. I read whatever I could find to help understand what belief or lack of belief the Anglican martyrs held so strongly that they were willing to be…

  Mary Adrienne

  April 9, 2020

  Bishop Robert Barron, Catholic Church, Eucharist, Real Presence, Triduum

• My belated response to Melinda Henneberger

  Melinda Henneberger wrote and published a column in the National Catholic Reporter back in December 5, 2018 on her reasons for leaving the Catholic Church. She (and many of us) felt a crisis of conscious over the McGarrick revelations and the unfolding knowledge of our church’s continuing sex abuse scandal and coverup. I shared her…

  Mary Adrienne

  August 2, 2019

  Catholic Church, Devil, Division, Evil, Faith, Melinda Henneberger, National Catholic Reporter, Priest Sex Abuse, Sin