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The Catholic parish geographically closest to our home is huge, with more than 13,000 parishioners, according to the diocesan website. It has confession once a week for half an hour. Let’s say (very generously) that because of age or other reasons only 3,000 of those parishioners are able to participate in the sacrament of penance…
Pope Leo XIV made his first official papal visit to Turkey last week, where he encouraged the small Catholic community to find strength in Christ. He also recited the original Creed promulgated by the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325—in an effort to bolster unity with representatives from the Apostolic Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian, and Chaldean…
In a recent article at Crisis Magazine, my friend Mike Parrott sounded the alarm about Trump’s floated idea of a 50-year mortgage. He called it “economic poison,” a tool of financial captivity that will inflate home prices, trap families in debt, and help usher in the “you will own nothing and be happy” future. He…
I was initially shocked to hear Fr. Murr say that for over six decades there has been no proper catechetical teaching in the Church. I suppose I had assumed, or at least hoped, that what I knew to be true on this side of the Atlantic was untrue on the far side of the Atlantic….
The essence of a cliché is that it is unoriginal and often repeated, yet repetita iuvant because repetition forms and reforms us. Holy Mother Church, with maternal solicitude, gives us again the 1st Sunday of Advent, and again we say that with this day a new liturgical year begins. Perhaps this is not cliché at…
The surprise success of the new film Sacré Coeur: Son règne n’a pas de fin (Sacred Heart: His Reign Has No End), released in French cinemas in September, has caused great controversy. It is no surprise that such a devoutly Catholic docudrama has divided opinion in French political society, in which laïcité—strictly enforced state secularism,…
Editor’s note: join the Fellowship of St. Nicholas (in English or Español) to join traditional Catholics around the world striving to fast according to the traditional norms of our forefathers. In the first part of this essay on the Russian Trads we learned the basics of their self-identity. Now let’s move on to the more…
In February 2023, my grandfather died at the age of 97; five months later, in July of that year, my mother passed away unexpectedly at the age of 72. My mother’s death hit me and my family particularly hard, and it took some time before I could come to terms with it. I have been…
The phrase “Woke Right” arrived almost overnight. Cultural critic James Lindsay helped popularize the term to describe a segment of the Right that he says imitates the tactics of the Woke Left. Yet it is quickly becoming a weapon used to silence anyone who questions Israeli or American foreign policy. Crisis Magazine editor Eric Sammons…
Another Thanksgiving Day has come. For me it is a bittersweet holiday, in a way that Christmas never is. At first bush, that does not make a great deal of sense, given that both observances share the same memories of now-deceased loved ones. But I suppose it is because Christmas has a transcendent meaning and…
