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If you were asked to come up with a quick summary of the Church’s teaching on the sacraments, how long would it take you? Could you boil it all down into a single sentence? Yes, I think you could do it. Quite easily, actually. In fact, it was nicely done five centuries ago at the…
Sometimes a superstar reaches such popularity that he is known simply by his first name. Such status is granted to two superstars of the MAGA movement, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. Their popularity is somewhat ironic, however, considering Vivek is the son of Indian immigrants and Elon is himself an immigrant, and the MAGA movement…
In our Epistle reading for this Sunday in the Octave of Christmas we hear from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 4:1-7. There are two special points to underscore. Let’s see the reading: [Brethren] [T]he heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all…
Above: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem by Filippino Lippi (1457–1504). They say “good things come to those who wait.” Many of us who have got our “miracle babies” after our infertility journeys know the feeling of totally ecstatic happiness that a baby can bring. Along with that feeling…
It’s 1952, and John Wayne’s latest film, The Quiet Man, is a huge hit at the box office. It is about a stranger who arrives in an Irish village with a secret he does not want to disclose. A year earlier, a little-known Irish author, Malachy G. Carroll, had published The Stranger, a novel about…
Editor’s note: we continue our weekly serialisation of Dr. Edward Schaefer’s new book A Simple Man’s Case for Tradition. This book is an excellent introduction to Traditionalism and provides an easy way for Trads to introduce the movement to fellow Catholics who are seeking deeper answers to today’s questions. Proceeds from the book sale also…
In a brilliant essay in The London Times, Lord Jonathan Sumption, former justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, voiced his chagrin about the victory for a law permitting assisted suicide in Great Britain, which won a comfortable margin of votes in the British Parliament. His analysis should serve as a warning for…
The cardinal of Chicago, Blase Cupich, has issued a directive to demand that parishioners in the archdiocese not kneel to receive Holy Communion, on the grounds that doing so interrupts the flow of the procession and calls attention to the individual. Of course, kneeling at a Communion rail would not interrupt anything at all, or…
Above: Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. Photo credit: Vatican News. Pope John Paul II, a Slav, spoke often of his desire for healing the breach between Rome and Orthodox Christians. In his 1995 Apostolic Letter Orientale Lumen, he wrote: Of the many tragic effects of the East-West schism, one…
Christmas was the beginning of the greatest tale ever told, and lesser tales have mingled with it for centuries to participate in its glory. On this night, God became Man as singing angels gathered peasants and kings and beasts beneath a sky of dancing stars. Every Christmas since, ghosts have gamboled in graveyards, animals have…
