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Some recent summertime travel caused me to venture into another diocese. As a daily Mass goer, I was thrilled to be in a rental only a block from the basilica. On a Friday afternoon, we entered a beautiful church. We sat in a pew, three of us wearing veils, and were suddenly aware of how…
America is a fascinating country to watch from a political perspective as an outsider. Not only is the political arena in America filled with drama and intrigue, but it is also filled with notable and often very noble zeal and principled action. I am not American, but given Canada’s proximity to the US and the…
Above: Virgin and Child with St. Anne by Leonardo da Vinci. What we know about the Blessed Virgin Mary’s parents, Saints Joachim and Anne, comes from Protoevangelium Jacobi (The Gospel of James). It is not part of the inerrant Word of God, but the document, which was written c. 170 AD gives insight into the…
Anthony Trollope, the Victorian novelist, was an amateur classicist of some competency and a man whose sympathies were capable of crossing centuries. He wrote a two-volume Life of Cicero that was really a defense of the Roman author. Too many of his contemporaries were critical of Cicero, holding him to a standard of perfect consistency…
At this point in the history of the Church, some of us might feel numb to the idea of homosexuality inside the Church. It seems like every other day we have some gay seminarian, priest, or bishop come out of the closet with glitter and makeup on their faces. To say that these are “concerning…
Above: photo by the author who went on this pilgrimage last year. Read his report here. Pilgrimage website. An ominous sign indicating the credibility of the reports that discuss a further suppression of the Apostolic Roman Rite by the Roman Curia of “Mercy” was the recent announcement by the Vatican prohibiting the celebration of the…
Recently, on my favorite podcast, two priests I respect lamented that the National Eucharistic Congress’ main accomplishment seemed to be the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage. They love a good Eucharistic procession, they said, but processions are for the devout. After three years, and at a cost of many millions, was this the best the bishops could…
With the excommunication of Archbishop Viganò, the rumors of further crackdowns against the Traditional Mass, the renewed accusations against Traditionalists of being “schismatically-minded,” and, further afield, the rift between Constantinople and Moscow, the word “schism” seems to be extremely popular today. Folk who have no authority to do so happily excommunicate each other—and some take……
Last weekend I got back from the National Eucharistic Congress. I was grateful for a safe trip, and all the connections I made with people I met there. Two out of three of our partners in the Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation were in attendance: myself, representing OnePeterFive, and several members of the Mass of the…
The inevitable has finally happened. Though unprecedented in many ways, it was less surprising than an assassination attempt. After increasingly painful pressure from a growing wave of mutinous Democrats—a thing the country hasn’t seen since Lyndon B. Johnson’s ousting in the ’60s—President Joe Biden bowed out of the race citing the “interests of [his] party…
