For the past two years, my students and I have been on the quest for the true West. We have journeyed together on a cultural pilgrimage across the vast literary landscape of Western and Christian Civilization. We have travelled in a time machine that has taken us across almost three thousand years of human history….
Above: the Ancient Custom of Blessing the Fields on Rogation Sunday at Hever, Kent Taken February 1967. One of the major elements of the Church’s Liturgical Year in all its varieties – Roman, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, Lyonnais, Sarum, Braga, Ordinariate, Dominican, Carmelite, Byzantine, West Syriac, East Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Coptic, Ethiopian, Malabarese, and Syro-Malabar – is…
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The 3rd Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo draws us into that peculiar Christian experience of living between gift and fulfillment, between consolation remembered and consummation promised, between the joy of Easter already given and the greater joy that still presses toward Ascension and Pentecost. The whole formulary has a tensile quality. Expectancy. Movement….
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the U.S. House of Representatives nears a crucial vote on the farm bill, Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is urging lawmakers not to sideline international hunger relief. In a recent advocacy appeal, the organization called on Americans to contact their representatives in support of global food aid programs, emphasizing that such efforts…
The Trump administration has announced that it will bring back federal firing squad executions in the United States — a move it claims will “strengthen” the national death penalty — while Pope Leo XIV is simultaneously offering support to those seeking to abolish capital punishment in the U.S. and around the world. The U.S. Department of…
