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In this age of the unrelenting back and forth of social media, where people lob insults and accusations like mortars, it is hard to find genuine charitable rebuttals to another person’s work. This article will endeavor, with charity, to rebut the article “Can Fallen Priests Be Restored to Ministry? Yes—Here’s How” recently penned by Mr….
Above: photo of the dead during the Ten Tragic Days, part of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Brigadier General Manuel Reyes Nava (1887-1927) initially joined the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), in 1912, serving alongside his brother Colonel Gabino Reyes Nava (?-1988), directly under the authority of another brother, Major General Valentin Reyes Nava (1884-1923), who led the…
Paul Kingsnorth, a recent convert from eco-activism and Wicca to Orthodox Christianity, has attracted a wide audience to his work. He has published Against the Machine as the culmination of his writings on his Substack, “The Abbey of Misrule.” His trenchant critiques of modern techno-capitalism and the searching spirit he brings to his stories resonate…
Steve Bannon is a paradox of epic proportions. A former finance titan turned populist prophet, he carries the scent of boardrooms and beer halls in equal measure. He once moved millions on Wall Street; now he moves crowds in Rust Belt towns. To his critics, he’s a grifter, a grand manipulator who cloaks chaos in…
The initial release of my 2023 book The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity—which presents a criticism of perspicuity, a practically universally-held doctrine among Protestants that holds that the Bible is clear on salvation or the essentials of the faith—elicited a fair amount of derision from Protestants. “Do…
Try as hard as you might to understand him, still Pope Leo leaves us befuddled. Even giving the benefit of the doubt to his recent statements, Catholics are still left short of clarity. Faithful Catholics fully understand the bounds of papal teaching. Assent of mind and will is only reserved to the highest reaches of…
Having examined the reasons why a Catholic should not feel “obliged”—whether for theological or pragmatic reasons—to support the Zionist cause, we now turn to the other side of the coin: the reasons why a Catholic should not feel morally compelled to support the opposing cause either, namely the Palestinian one. As previously noted, polarization is…
In his book The Right Questions: Truth, Meaning & Public Debate, the late American legal scholar Phillip E. Johnson (1940-2019), often referred to as the godfather of the Intelligent Design movement, reminded readers that truth-seeking begins not with having the right answers but with the courage to ask honest questions. As he wrote: “The questions…
Not since its Puritan founding nearly four centuries ago would Harvard University have ever dreamed of installing an official Chair of Roman Catholic Studies—much less invite the world’s foremost Roman Catholic historian to occupy it. But times do change. So, in 1958, the unthinkable having happened, Christopher Dawson arrived at Old Mother Harvard to begin…
Editor’s note: reminder that anyone who devoutly visits a cemetery during the Octave (between November 1st and 8th), praying — even mentally — for the departed, may obtain one plenary indulgence per day, applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, under the usual conditions. From the Patristic readings at Matins in the Roman office: ℣….
