April Issue of Catholic Family News Now Released!

April 1, 2025

Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Lent

Dear Friends of Catholic Tradition,

The date of this letter marks the final week in Lent before we move to the more intense part of Lent known as Passiontide. We begin looking ever more deeply toward the Cross. Yet, as you read this letter it will likely already be the season of Easter. As we stare upon the cross, we can look through the cross, in a certain sense, to the resurrection. We know that it is through this portal of the cross that we must pass to reach the resurrection. We must die with Christ to rise with Him.

This edition of the paper, as you will discover, has two themes running through it. One is a deep examination of the crusades. The crusades (and especially the first) marks in many ways the high point of Christendom. All Catholics no matter their race or nationality united to defend the holy sites of the Holy Land, and most especially the site of the Crucifixion. This was not really the “first” crusade. The first crusade was called by Christ Himself from the Cross and from the Mount of Olives when he commanded his Apostles to preach the good news to all nations. The crusades of the eleventh and twelfth century were merely a battle in this grand crusade.

As discussed in our March 2025 conference, a summary of which also appears in this issue, an important front line in the current installment of this grand crusade is being fought on the line of gender. Women and mothers are the target that Satan and the forces of organized naturalism have been carpet bombing for over a century in the hopes of destroying the Catholic family and ultimately Catholic civilization. Defending motherhood is an essential need of this phase of the conflict. Thus, we chose to combine these two themes with a description of our conference.

Thank you for your continued support of the work of Catholic Family News. We could not continue to produce the content we do without your support. As we grow our video and audio apostolate to reach new audiences, we still are committed to producing the newspaper and to getting it into the hands and before the eyeballs of more people. Those goals can sometime seem hopeless. With reading on all levels on decline. With many people wanting only short, dumbed down takeaways, we are constantly seeing our print subscriptions decline. This impacts us even more than the loss of subscription revenue. It increases our costs to produce and mail the paper as smaller print runs become more expensive per paper. We ask for your help to promote subscriptions to our paper. Consider giving away your issues when finished to someone and encourage him to subscribe after reading it. Approach your priest and ask if the church or chapel will buy a group subscription for 20 or 30 papers that could be resold to your parishioners. If you email us at cfnsubmissions@gmail.com we can quote a discounted per paper price for a group subscription. With your help we can turn our declining subscriptions around and reverse the trend away from reading.

I wish you a holy end to your Lent and the greatest joys for Easter.

Stans iuxta Crucem,

Brian McCall