Buddhist Catholic Contemplative Evangelical General Christian Hindu Jewish Latter-day Saint Muslim New Visions Progressive Christian

Beliefs

Topics

Columnists

Resource Library

Research Tools

Video

Podcasts

Thought Readers

Faith In Media Tracker

Newsletters

Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In Subscription Support

Follow Patheos

Home
Catholic
Politics and Religion

easter

Select a Category 10 Commandments 2012 Election 2016 Election 2020 Election 2022 Election 2024 Election Abortion Addiction Adult Day Care Advent Africa AI Alcoholism Alex Pretti Renee Good America American Citizenship American Fascism Announcement Anti Semitism Anti-Semitism Apologetics Archbishop Coakley Argentina Armenian Genocide Ash Wednesday Ballot Box Salvation Biden Big Beautiful Bill Bishop Black Mass Blasphemy Boko Haram Book Review Brainwashing Breast Cancer Bribery Calling Evil Good calling good evil Cancer Canonize Caregiving Catholic Catholic Vote Cause for Sainthood Chaos child abuse Child Labor Child Rearing Child Sacrifice Christian Bashers Christian Leadership Christian Persecution Christian Solidarity Christianity Christmas clergy Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal Climate Coakley Common Good Communion Communism Computers concentration camps Conclave Confession Consecration to Our Lady Conversion Coptic Christians Coronavirus Corporatism Corruption COVID Crisis Pregnancy Centers Culture D Day Death Death Penalty Dementia Democracy Designer Baby Destruction of the Family Dictator Dignity of Work Divine Mercy Novena Divine Mercy Sunday Divorce Doubt Drug Addiction easter Ebola Economics Education Egg Harvesting El Salvador Elderly Epiphany Epstein eternal life Eternal Life Eucharist Eugenics Euthanizing Children Euthansia evangelization Excommunicate Biden Extraterrestrial Life Failed Clergy Faith False Gods Family Fascism Fatherhood Feast of the Assumption First Amendment Flood the Zone Following Christ forced conversion Forgiveness Fortnight4Freedom fourth amendment Fr James Altman Fr Stanley Rother free press Freedom Freedom of Conscience freedom of religion Freedom of Speech Freedom of Worship vs Religious Freedom Geek Stuff Gender Theory Genocide God the Father Good Friday Gossip GQP Greenland Grief Gun Control Gun Violence Hate Blogs Health Health Care Heart Attack Heaven Hell Herod HHS Mandate History of the Crusades Holy Father Holy Father' Holy Father's Tweets Holy Matrimony Holy Saturday Holy Spirit Holy Thursday Holy Week Home Homeschooling homosexual Hospice Human Dignity Human Rights human trafficking Humor ICE Idolatry Immaculate Conception Immigration Incest Infertility Inspiration Iran War ISIS Islam Islamic Brotherhood Israel JD Vance Jesus Jobs Jordan Judas Judicial and Legislative Murder Judicial Murder July 4 Just War Justice Kavanaugh Ketanji Jackson Brown Laity Latin Mass Leadership Lent Less of Me Lying Lying for Trump Mad King MAGA Magnifica humanitas Mama Marriage Marriage Protection Amendment Martyr Media Bias Medicaid Men and Abortion Mercy Military Dictatorship Misogyny Motherhood Movie Review Murder Music National Catholic Register Nazi Clergy Neo Nazis New Category New Evangelism New Evangelization News Headlines Nigeria No Kings Novena for the Persecuted Church Nuns Obama Oklahoma Oscar Romero Our Lady Our National Embarrassment Pakistan Palm Sunday Papal Conclave Papal G8 Pedophile piano political priests Political Whore Clergy Politics Polygamy Pope Francis Pope Francis Visit United States Pope Leo XIV Pope's Prayer Intentions Pornography Post Christian West Poverty Prayer Prayers for the Persecuted Church Pro Life Prophecy Prostitution Purgatory Putin Quack Medicine Racism Rape Religious Freedom Renee Good Republican Republican priests Rerum Novarum Retirement Risen Lord Roe v Wade Rosary Sacrament Sacred Heart Sacrilege Saints Salvation Same Sex Marriage Sanctity of Human Life Satan Save Our Democracy scandal Scripture Shroud of Turin Sisters Slavery Social Justice Social Security Solidarity Cross St Michael the Archangel stations of the cross Stop Late Term Abortion Stroke Suicide Supreme Court Surrogacy Surveillance State Synod Syria Taliban Tariffs Taxes Technology Thanksgiving The Ascension The Cross The Locust Class The Political Heresy The Resurrection The Tomb The Transfiguration The Trinity The War on Girls Tornado Trauma Trump Trump Coup Trump Destroying America Trump's Coup Trump's War on the Rule of Law Trumpism Ukraine Uncategorized USAID USCCB Vatican Vatican Reform Violence Against Women Violence in America Vocation Voting Rights Wages Walk for Life War Weight Loss White House Why Aren't You a Feminist Too? Woke Women Leaders Women's Rights Worker's Rights World Hunger World War I World War III World Youth Day Worship Writing Year of Faith

Select a Month October 2026 September 2026 August 2026 July 2026 June 2026 May 2026 April 2026 March 2026 February 2026 January 2026 December 2025 November 2025 October 2025 September 2025 August 2025 July 2025 June 2025 May 2025 April 2025 March 2025 February 2025 January 2025 July 2024 June 2024 May 2024 March 2024 February 2024 November 2023 October 2023 August 2023 July 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 August 2022 July 2022 June 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 October 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 August 2016 May 2016 April 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 January 2012

April 2026

April 07, 2026

Bishop Twists Pope Leo’s Words in Attempt to Defend Trump

I recently came across a video by Fr Thady Doyle of God's Cottage Prayer Center...

April 06, 2026

Pope Leo Wishes the World Happy Easter in 10 Languages

He is Risen! Happy Easter my friends. Jesus Christ is risen from the tomb. Our...

April 04, 2026

It is Saturday. Jesus is Lying Dead in the Tomb.

Jesus is lying dead in the tomb. His demoralized, terrified and broken disciples are in...

April 16, 2025

Kilmar Garcia is Christ Crucified, Standing in Front of Us.

‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my...

April 25, 2022

Doubting Thomas was the only modern man in the whole story.

“I won’t believe it unless I see the nail wounds in his hands, put my...

April 08, 2022

Americans Need More than Performative Lent and Easter Bunny Resurrection

A normal Lent for American Catholics is drenched in petty personal piety and nonsensical “sacrifice”...

April 13, 2020

Have You Felt the Power of the Virtual Eucharist?

For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor powers,...

April 02, 2020

We’re Not Going to Church this Easter. But We Won’t be Separated from the Lord.

Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee from Your Presence? If...

April 10, 2015

Divine Mercy Novena, Praying for Those in Purgatory, Where We are Made Fit for a King

I pray a Rosary every Sunday for people in Purgatory. It takes quite a while,...

April 09, 2015

Blessed are the Merciful, the Living Images of Jesus’ Compassionate Heart

Blessed are the Merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Forgive us our trespasses as we...

April 08, 2015

Praying the Divine Mercy in an Age of Exploitation and Murder of Innocents

If you do not become be converted and become as a little child, you shall...

April 07, 2015

Bring to Me the Souls of Those Who Have Separated from My Church

We live in an apostate world, and that apostasy is itself divided into groups. The...

April 06, 2015

Divine Mercy Novena: Praying for Unbelievers

Jesus told us that when a lost soul repents, there is abounding joy in heaven. I...

April 25, 2014

Pope Francis: Don’t Be a Bat Christian

We are the light of the world. Pope Francis reminds us not to hide that...

April 21, 2014

Easter in Nigeria: Boko Haram Will Not Have the Final Word

Archbishop Ignatius Kaigama of Jos, Nigeria spoke of Easter hope in the midst of suffering...

April 21, 2014

Why Did Jesus Have to Die, and Why Does the Resurrection Matter?

Calvary is the fulcrum of history. Everything changed on that hill called Golgotha 2,000...

April 19, 2014

The Empty Tomb

He is Risen! Happy Easter my friends.

April 17, 2014

At Gethsemane

Gethsemane is far more than the physical garden where Jesus prayed the night He was...

December 2013

December 30, 2013

2013 Favs: New Tests Date the Shroud from the Time of Christ

Recents tests indicate that the Shroud of Turin was created somewhere between 300 BC and...

August 2013

August 21, 2013

Novena for the Persecuted Church, Day 4

Then war broke out in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and...

July 2013

July 14, 2013

Lord, You are My God

This song by Caedmon's Call, puts us all in our place: At the foot of...

April 2013

April 14, 2013

Pope Francis: One Cannot Proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Without the Tangible Witness of One’s Life

Pope Francis preached another wonderful homily when he celebrated Mass today. This pastoral Pope seems...

April 05, 2013

Divine Mercy, Post Birth Abortion, Morning After Pills for Little Girls, Gay Marriage, Polyamory, Sequesters, Unending Undeclared Wars and Us

Sunday is Divine Mercy Sunday. Divine Mercy Sunday is based on the visions of St...

April 04, 2013

Pope Francis: Mothers, go forth with this witness to the living Christ!

Pope Francis reached out to women in a powerful way during Holy Week. First, there...

April 03, 2013

Father’s Reaction to Pope Francis’ Blessing of His Disabled Son

His name is Dominic Gondreau. He is eight years old and he has cerebral palsy. ...

April 03, 2013

Parents: Moved to Tears After Pope Hugs Their Disabled Son

The parents of a disabled little boy were speechless and moved to tears when Pope...

April 02, 2013

It’s Easter … and the Fight for Religious Freedom Continues

I focused on Holy Week issues last week. I would love to continue doing the...

March 2013

March 31, 2013

The Old Dragon Misogyny and the Resurrected Lord

It goes on all evening, begins in the church parking lot with a tub of...

March 31, 2013

News Coverage: Pope Francis’ First Chrism Mass and Holy Thursday Foot Washing

This video shows news coverage of Pope Francis' first Chrism mass as Pope and the...

March 31, 2013

English Translation: Pope Francis’ Easter Homily

The Holy Father looked weary when he began his homily. We are so blessed that...