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There is a rushed rhythm of the 4th Sunday of Advent’s Mass formulary, a feeling of quick recapitulation. Historically, this Sunday the ancient Church in Rome didn’t have it’s own set of texts. This was because the day before was the Saturday of Ember week and those ceremonies went all the way into Sunday morning….
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…
“I must now carry my thoughts back to the abominable things I did in those days,” writes Augustine at the very beginning of Book II, “the sins of the flesh which defiled my soul.” He has left his boyhood behind, the period during which he first went off to school, where pupils were regularly beaten…
As the dust settles after President Trump’s decisive election victory on November 5th and the heightened emotional state of the general public – purposefully whipped up by the Regime media on both sides – subsides to a more regular level, it behoves American Catholics to reflect on what the 2024 elections mean for the cause…
Conservatives can’t seem to get enough of media impresario Bari Weiss. Bari is the “It Lesbian” of the American right. Recently, a Tweet of hers has been making the rounds and been retweeted by conservatives. She says, She goes on to say, This is all good stuff, no question about it. Bari is right about…
It happened again a while ago. The Mass was honoring a former member of the parish who had just professed final vows. Visiting clergy were present. After the procession, when all were assembled on the altar, the pastor made the sign of the cross, looked at the packed house, gave a big smile, and said,…
Editor’s note: we appeal with love and respect to our separated brother, Mr. Rod Dreher, and all Catholics who have questioned or lost their faith in the ancient doctrine of the Apostolic See and taken refuge in one of the Greek schisms. This piece is authored by a Russian Orthodox Christian who reconciled with Rome…
While many persons of faith possess an unshakeable conviction in the divinity of Christ, the rise of modernism and secularism in the last few hundred years has brought about a growing doubt in this central article of the Christian Faith. Materialist presuppositions have poisoned biblical studies and seeped into Scripture 101, stripping the Gospels of…
The election of Donald Trump has brought relief to many who feared another four years of Democratic Party rule. For some, his reelection represents the triumph of a nationalist conservatism after four years (or more, if you think of Joe Biden’s presidency as a third term for Barack Obama) of progressive mania. Doubtless for some…
If the whole point of doing theology is to conduct reasoned discourse about God, whose mysteries defy all human efforts to master, how then does one measure success? By what criteria are we to know the job is done, that the market on the meaning of God, both who He is and what He’s done,…
