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Above: Pope Francis greets Bishop Georg Bätzing, president of the German bishops’ conference, during an audience at the Vatican June 24, 2021. CNS photo/Vatican Media The internet tells me that Anglophone Catholics are engaged in a heated debate as to whether or not Pope Francis has committed heresy in Singapore. I don’t claim to know…
Above: Pope Francis celebrates his birthday on Dec. 17, 2023, with children and families who are assisted by the Vatican’s Santa Marta Pediatric Dispensary. Credit: Vatican Media On this first anniversary of the latest violence between Jews and Muhammadans in the Middle East, the Holy Father has asked all Catholics to observe fasting and prayer…
Above: Bishop Tissier de Mallerais blessing the faithful. Back on September 30, the SSPX released this news about Biship Tissier de Mallerais: Now last Friday the SSPX announced that the good bishops appears to be on his death bed: This situation indeed looks grim for the good bishop, yet not with the eyes of Faith….
Let us consider how our fathers felt when they saw the Muhammadan fleets on the horizon at Lepanto in 1571. As all of Christendom fearfully poured forth prayers to the Most Holy Virgin, Almighty God worked victory for our fathers over the Muhammadan hordes once again. Let us renew our trust in our Lady of…
Until recently, I was not a significant devotee of the Rosary. Faithfully praying the Rosary was for me, at best, sporadic. That was the case until earlier this summer when my wife informed me that she was pregnant with our fourth child. Although happy, of course, I was also struck with an anxiousness that I…
During political turmoil, listen to St. Augustine of Hippo, who lived through and wrote about the fall of the Roman Empire “…what are kingdoms (or nations) but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs, but petty kingdoms?” That doesn’t make any government look too good. “A gang is a group of…
The Gospel passage offered on high for this 20th Sunday after Pentecost is from John 4: 46-53. Remember: the readings at Mass also have a sacrificial character. That’s why in the Vetus Ordo they are also read by the priest (not just also a deacon) at the altar of sacrifice (and not just at the…
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. Although they laid down their lives for the Faith over a period of almost 150 years, the first being executed under Henry VIII in 1535 and the last under Charles II in 1679, very few of them are household names,…
Above: Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad, with the Holy Father on February 4, 2022, shortly before the FSSP completed an urgent Novena and consecrated itself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, just as His Holiness signed an explicit decree protecting…
This Saturday, October 5, there will be a major pilgrimage in the Washington, D.C. area in support of the Traditional Latin Mass. In July 2022, devastating restrictions on the TLM were imposed by the Vatican in the Diocese of Arlington and Archdiocese of Washington. Formerly, nearly thirty parishes in the metro D.C. area had regular…
