Welcome Aboard…!
‘Catholic Land,’ a term that recalls Christendom, is being resurrected here stripped of the negative connotations that have assailed and diminished it over the centuries. Catholic Land is sustained by the Divine and suffuse with the Sublime. A distinct world view, Catholic Land is filled with the ‘bells and smells’ of millennia of history and centuries of tradition. It is the place where the most peculiar way of looking at God, man, creation, purpose, and meaning exists.
And this doesn’t yet even touch on the miraculous.
A real place, Catholic Land is what we pray others will populate rather than Peter
Pan’s “Never-Never Land” so many inhabit today. Catholic Land is a place where truth is pursued and beauty is recognized, a place where St. Peter’s Barque can dock with impunity and its passengers can find the familiar. It’s filled with the people and places and moments in time that trace our salvation history and plot the points which, like bread crumbs, will lead us home.
It is the place where, once our eyes are opened, connections beyond compare and
riches beyond description are revealed.
Please join us.
The Catholic Navigator and The Catholic Tugboat set sail weekly, following closely in the course set by St. Peter’s Barque. These two publications —we call them faith supplements— derive their nautical theme from the age-old symbol for the Catholic Church described in the right sidebar. Our purpose as a Catholic lay apostolate is to assist parishes, parochial schools, and individuals in their faith formation and enrichment efforts.
The weekly faith supplements for the upcoming Sunday are posted each Monday morning, prior. They are found and can be downloaded for free on The Galley, Food for Thought page. The sources for all articles, as well as any additional references offered, are posted each Monday at noon (EST) on Issue Sources page.
Following the lead of the Church’s Magisterium and guided by ecclesiastic approval —the Imprimatur on each issue— we strive to accommodate the needs of families, often adrift in their efforts to teach their children. We make every effort to make the content of each publication sync-up so that parents can learn as they go and guide their children as well. The imprimatur (permission to publish) is assurance that ‘heresy is not spoken here.’
For individuals visiting this website, the weekly Faith Supplements are found for free download on The Galley page.
Special Notice to Parishes and Parochial Schools
Both publications posted weekly at our website’s Galley page may be downloaded, emailed, and/or posted to parish/school websites as intact PDF files. We ask only that a link to our website accompany any email or posting: https://thecatholicnavigator.org