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Ever reliable, Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., seldom disappoints. This former editor of America magazine, now a featured columnist for the National Catholic Reporter (both lodestars for the Catholic Left) is uncommonly consistent. With steely determination, he has been stretching the Catholic Church into shapes that bear little resemblance to the Church Christ founded. In a…
For the past two years, my students and I have been on the quest for the true West. We have journeyed together on a cultural pilgrimage across the vast literary landscape of Western and Christian Civilization. We have travelled in a time machine that has taken us across almost three thousand years of human history….
Above: the Ancient Custom of Blessing the Fields on Rogation Sunday at Hever, Kent Taken February 1967. One of the major elements of the Church’s Liturgical Year in all its varieties – Roman, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, Lyonnais, Sarum, Braga, Ordinariate, Dominican, Carmelite, Byzantine, West Syriac, East Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Coptic, Ethiopian, Malabarese, and Syro-Malabar – is…
The 3rd Sunday after Easter in the Vetus Ordo draws us into that peculiar Christian experience of living between gift and fulfillment, between consolation remembered and consummation promised, between the joy of Easter already given and the greater joy that still presses toward Ascension and Pentecost. The whole formulary has a tensile quality. Expectancy. Movement….
Few historical myths are more pernicious and popular than that of the “Noble Savage.” Concocted by French philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau in the late 18th century, the Noble Savage was seen as a better kind of human being since he was closer to nature and untainted by the corruptive influence of civilization. In his primitive…
Your Holiness, I must confess that I have never written a letter to the pope before, and I ask your forgiveness if I fail to observe the proper forms of address. I assure you it is innocent ignorance, not malice. First, I want to thank you for accepting the call to be pope. It is…
The Holy Father has commented in English one of the most controversial aspects of the Francis pontificate. From Vatican News: We note again how the Holy Father ignores the concerns of the “rich” countries – Europe and America – where these sexual issues are paramount. He already said to Crux very early in his pontificate…
This year, ironically enough, April 23, the feast of St. George, patron of England, shall find me in Scotland. Of course, Scotland’s own patron, St. Andrew, has to wait until November 30 for his feast day. Nevertheless, the Saint and flag – the Cross of St. George – shall be commemorated all over England this…
It can be hard for the average Christian to understand this debate around Christian Nationalism. It’s different from the battle over the separation of Church and State, at least in tenor if not in content. When I first heard the phrase used as a sort of bogeyman, a great warning of impending doom, I was…
According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, repair means “to restore by replacing a part or putting together what is torn or broken” or “to restore to a sound or healthy state.” Therapy is defined as “medical treatment of impairment, injury, disease, or disorder.” Combining these, reparative therapy is a medical treatment intended to restore a person’s broken…
