Mid-City Christian

Friday, June 19, 2026

Joy Camp, June 22–26

St. Luke’s is excited to host Joy Camp, June 22–26, in partnership with the Episcopal Diocese of San Diego and Trinity Methodist. Joy Camp brings a diverse group of kids together for a week of fun, friendship, and spiritual formation. Through songs, prayer, creative skits, art, and hands-on activities, campers will explore key stories from the Bible and discover how the teachings of Jesus can guide their everyday lives. They'll make new friends, laugh a lot, and experience the joy of being part of a wider community of kids learning and growing together in God’s expansive love. This year with God's help, we are delighted to offer Joy Camp as a free offering to all! To help us make this a reality, we are deeply grateful for your contributions, which you can make through the online form below. All donations are tax deductible.

The Two Prides

Initium omnis peccati superbia.

“Pride is the beginning of all sin.”

(Sirach 10:13)

Why Bishop Strickland is wrong about Magnifica Humanitas

By Marcus Peter on Jun 19, 2026 04:00 am
I recently read Bishop Joseph Strickland’s May 26th essay critiquing Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (MH), and I wanted to comment on it by drawing insights from the encyclical itself. One of the more surprising criticisms [...]
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Mourners in Kenya honor Catholic schoolgirl who died saving others in dormitory fire

By Agnes Aineah on Jun 18, 2026 02:33 pm
Fortune Aimaya Losike, 15, chose to save the lives of other girls before the ceiling of the dormitory caved in on her. [...]
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The challenge of applying Catholic social teaching

By James Kalb on Jun 18, 2026 10:00 am
Christ told Pilate that his kingdom was not of this world, which, he had prophesied, was doomed to end in catastrophe. He lived without worldly ties: without a job, wife, children, steady source of income, [...]
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The Front Royal Statement outlines cardinal principles for Catholic education

By Noelle Mering on Jun 18, 2026 08:00 am
One of the striking lessons of the past century is that movements seeking to transform society eventually turn their attention to education. Political victories can be reversed, laws repealed, elections lost. But shape the imagination [...]
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AI Humans and the Real Limits of Machines

By Dr. Randall B. Smith on Jun 17, 2026 05:00 pm
I read recently in The Atlantic Monthly that artificial intelligence firms are hiring and paying big salaries to philosophers to help them think through the issues facing the developers of AI. They can send me a check, [...]
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The SSPX leadership against Scripture and Tradition

By George Weigel on Jun 17, 2026 04:00 am
The Holy See has declared that, if the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) proceeds with the ordination of bishops in July without a papal mandate, those involved in these illicit ordinations are automatically (latae sententiae) excommunicated — [...]
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Extra, extra! News and views for Wednesday, June 17, 2026

By CWR Staff on Jun 17, 2026 03:00 am
The Forgotten Foundations of Constitutional Law (Public Discourse): “Long before the separation of powers and judicial review were given written form, Greek philosophy, Roman law, Christian theology, and the medieval doctrine of paired jurisdictions laid [...]
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Second volume of Justice Scalia biography portrays a unique “founder”

By Austin Ruse on Jun 16, 2026 11:38 pm
The founding of America was not a single event. It was a process that began long before the documents that broke us away from Great Britain and the documents that established our government. Long before [...]
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Pope warns SSPX bishop ordinations risk deepening schism

By Hannah Brockhaus on Jun 16, 2026 03:03 pm
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) said it plans to consecrate four priests as bishops on July 1 without the permission of Pope Leo XIV. [...]
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Becoming men who seek God with every breath, in every way

By Paul Senz on Jun 16, 2026 04:00 am
Modern life has all but quenched man’s heroic spirit, smothering it with lame distractions, from fantasy sports to petty internet debates, or killing it with evils like pornography. But men are called to so much [...]
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Northern Ireland city leads first coordinated worldwide Marian Eucharistic procession

By Patrick J. Passmore on Jun 15, 2026 06:39 pm
The Northern Ireland city kicked off a worldwide Eucharistic procession honoring the Blessed Mother, coordinated at the same time across six continents. [...]
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Consequential Consistorial Connections

By George Weigel on Jun 15, 2026 04:00 am
Several topics will be discussed at the consistory of cardinals called by Pope Leo XIV for June 26-29: the international situation and its effects on local Churches; key themes in the encyclical Magnifica Humanitas; the [...]
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Democratic Republic of Congo clergy blast government apathy amid violence, disease

By Ngala Killian Chimtom on Jun 15, 2026 03:00 am
Church leaders in the Democratic Republic of Congo have expressed misgivings at the government’s focus on constitutional reform as citizens are caught in a vortex of conflict and disease. Years of conflict have already inflicted [...]
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How the Female Imagination is Being Corrupted

By Marcus Peter on Jun 14, 2026 08:23 pm
Beatrice Scudeler’s recent essay on the Public Discourse about Gen Z women and the internet fascination with “men who yearn” exposes a rather inconvenient truth for a culture that has spent sixty years telling women [...]
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Quaint Heresies and Current Troubles

By Father Jerry J. Pokorsky on Jun 14, 2026 05:31 pm
Most Catholic schoolboys study Christian heresies with philosophical rigor, carefully parsing their genesis and implications. However, it may take decades and even centuries to observe the pernicious consequences of violations of Catholic orthodoxy. Most of [...]
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Irish bishops call for calm in Belfast following racially motivated civil unrest

By Madalaine Elhabbal on Jun 14, 2026 02:00 pm
Bishops in Northern Ireland call for peace, abuse victims in Australia clash with diocese, anti-Catholic legislation in France fails, Zimbabwe, and more in this week’s Catholic world news roundup. [...]
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The People of God: Chosen, Saved, Shepherded

By Carl E. Olson on Jun 13, 2026 05:00 pm
Readings: • Ex 19:2-6a • Psa 100:1-2, 3, 5 • Rom 5:6-11 • Mt 9:36-10:8 One description of the Church that is emphasized in the documents of the Second Vatican Council is “the people of [...]
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Temple of Fairest Love: On Mary’s Immaculate Heart

By Donald Jacob Uitvlugt on Jun 13, 2026 04:00 am
Today, the Church celebrates the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The feasts, solemnities, and memorials of the Church year are not holidays the way the secular world understands the term—they are holy days, and they are [...]
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Fr. Rossetti, Cardinal McElroy, and the case of unidentified ecclesiastical motives

By Eamonn Clark on Jun 12, 2026 08:46 pm
In a video released May 29, now-former exorcist of the Archdiocese of Washington D.C., Msgr. Stephen Rossetti (a priest of Syracuse, New York) described his opinion on the phenomenon of UFOs and their possible connection [...]
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Pope Leo XIV’s advice to priests: ‘Holiness cannot be lived in isolation’

By Hannah Brockhaus on Jun 12, 2026 02:15 pm
The World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests takes place every year on the solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus. [..]
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