Who does the parish serve? Parishes are not established as sinecures for priests. Rather, they have developed as a series of obligations placed upon pastors with regard to their parishioners. https://t.co/8PKy2YWgao

If you're smart and cool and like red pens, you should apply. It's a pretty great gig. https://t.co/vpYZOAMQn5

“Man is the creature that must ask ‘what does this mean?’” Bishop Erik Varden, this year’s Vatican preacher of Lenten Exercises and our 2025 Erasmus lecturer.

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I love the use of Thomas Cole's The Pilgrim of the Cross at the End of His Journey for The Protestant Mind. Cole was an American Protestant artist. https://t.co/qzWbW0RxfN

I'm on the team producing this newsletter. It's going to be an incredibly useful project for understanding today’s religious landscape.

Cardinal Dolan: By No Means Finished Yet by George Weigel https://t.co/uBgaaFy770

I’m angry that Google does’t pull up the Sheets file I want when I type “Excel” into the searchbar.

Join First Things and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (@_Angelicum) at the Union League Club for the second annual Aquinas Lecture by Fr. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., “Spotting Resistances Against the Plenitude of the Christian Ethos.” https://t.co/xKbOm0oDWb

This Sunday, @BishopBarron will present this year’s 2026 Neuhaus Lecture “Recovering the University’s Soul: Christian Humanism Against the New Nihilism” at @NewCollegeofFL. For more information, check out the events page on our website. https://t.co/NrIylgDghO

“Apparent conflicts between science and religion (to use our terms) are born of either bad science or bad religion, and they should compel the puzzled thinker to dig deeper and think harder.” — @BishopBarron https://t.co/qmI1TfM0mH

"The psyche at the center of A Prisoner’s Cinema wants to wake up from the hallucinations, wants to push itself as far as possible, so that when the hallucinations are over, there is no doubt about what to do next. Find salvation." Grateful to @FOMO_sacer for his thoughtful

In honor of his feast today, I think I'm finally ready to go for it and order the Complete Works of St. Thomas Aquinas

This excellent piece is definitive, in my opinion.

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The laity’s obligations are found in the precepts of the Church, the first of which obliges them to attend Mass on Sunday. But the law of the Church is silent on the question of where Catholics must fulfill their Sunday obligation.

The laity’s obligations are found in the precepts of the Church, the first of which obliges them to attend Mass on Sunday. But the law of the Church is silent on the question of where Catholics must fulfill their Sunday obligation.

A parishioner’s obligations to his parish may be ranked proportionately lower than those to his family or even to himself, because he is capable of sinning far more gravely against those in his power than he is against his comparatively distant fellow parishioners.

"Has the vice president, to distract attention from the administration’s checkered pro-life record, created a seamless garment for those on the right, hoping to convince them that fighting DEI and radical gender ideology is just as important as the fight for life? Has Vance, like