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One hundred and ten years ago, on August 20, 1914, a reformer Pope passed away: Saint Pius X, whose original name was Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto. Born on June 2, 1835, in Riese, Treviso, Sarto embarked on a path of religious service that saw him assume pivotal roles in various ecclesiastical communities. After spending nine years…
I thought, when I picked up a copy of vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance’s 2016 autobiographical book Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, that I would find (a) well-reasoned arguments for his political positions, and (b) inspiring reflections about how he was challenged and changed by his Catholic faith. What…
With Donald Trump’s selection of Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate, there has been a renewed interest in Vance’s popular memoir Hillbilly Elegy. Already, the book has become a bestseller (again) as people read Vance’s story of growing up in a dysfunctional home in the Rust Belt and try to better understand the MAGA…
In the first volume of Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour Trilogy, Guy Crouchback learns from a chance conversation that because he has a valid sacramental marriage with a wife who divorced him, civilly married and then divorced others, and has recently been having casual sex with nobody knows how many men, it is morally permissible…
“But we don’t all want the same things, do we?” Over a decade ago, I read these words from Professor J. Budziszewski, an atheist-turned-Catholic, in his incredible book What We Can’t Not Know. The sentence struck me profoundly, and I occasionally recall his words as we trudge through the long-standing and now accelerating culture war—a…
The Law in Leviticus 13:45-46 required that people with “leprosy” must wear torn clothing, live outside the camp, leave their hair unkept, cover the lower part of their face and cry our “Unclean! Unclean”. This treatment hasn’t yet made its way into Holy See’s documents oppressing the faithful who desire the Traditional Latin Mass. Time…
In the space of three centuries following the death of Christ, two very different threats arose to bedevil the life of the Church. The first was persecution, which took fierce and resolute form right from the start. Wave upon wave of hatred was directed at those who persisted in the practice of the Christian Faith—not…
Above: a community of Carmelites at prayer. Photo source. Editor’s note: as we can see with the traditional Benedictines of Mary, female religious vocations are exploding… if they are traditional. Please donate today to help these sisters whose prayers will move mountains in our time. They are in great need of the assistance of the…
Not that you’d know it from mainstream media, but the most persecuted religion in the world right now, in terms of sheer numbers of those affected, is Christianity. Yet there are certain places on the planet where you might not expect this to be the case: traditionally Christian countries, for example, like England. During the…
In an instant, the racism of the Democrat Left was exposed. It came as a reaction to a Trump meme that was really a Rorschach Test. Two pictures, side by side; calm on one side, chaos on the other; safety on one, impending danger on the other. On one side, a nice quiet neighborhood, brick…
