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We’ll start with the blasphemy of the year. There’s nothing quite like relaxing at the opera with abundant female nudity, fresh blood, (real) skin piercings, and actual lesbian sex acts. This used to be called porn, and one did not go to the opera for it. Paul Hindemith’s half-hour one-act opera Sancta Susanna (1922), which…
Three things that are certain in today’s world: death, taxes…and gaslighting. Our Elites lie to us so much that anyone with commonsense knows to doubt the veracity of anything they claim. The gaslighting reaches into most areas of life: medicine, foreign policy, and the role of women in the Church just to name a few….
Above: the Dormition Cathedral of Moscow, built in 1326, was the cathedral of the Catholic Metropolitan Isidore of Kiev and all Rus’ (1385 – 1463). Russian Catholics of the Byzantine rite do not normally interfere much in the affairs of the Roman Rite, except in cases where it is truly necessary to speak or act…
Two recurring motifs of the presidential campaign have given it a surreal atmosphere for me: the lying and the assumption that hardly anyone can doubt the social utility of killing babies in the womb. Recently, billionaire Bill Ackman was defending ex-President Trump to a hostile reporter on a news show. The “journalist” disingenuously praised Ackman…
Hopefully by now you’ve heard that more than 20,000 Palestinian children are confirmed dead in Israel’s defensive Gaza war. That’s just since October of last year, and it’s just the number of confirmed child deaths in Gaza, excluding civilian women and men. The full number of dead children is surely much higher. Their violent deaths…
Crisp air, falling leaves A languid sun retires into a golden sea As the gentle wind begins its course beneath A melancholy moon And all the world withdraws in silence Amidst the richly hued pageantry of violence What worldly hopes and dreams lay piling Under autumn’s somber swoon Another thwarted soul caresses The rigid wood…
In the immediate aftermath of his conversion, following a life not infrequently strewn with sin, Augustine finally decides in what world he wishes to live. But it could not have been an easy choice to make. Born into the late classical world of a pagan empire, a world where he spent his childhood and early…
Over a century ago, Pope St. Pius X observed that “there are large numbers of Christians in our own time who are entirely ignorant of the truths necessary for salvation.”[1] The same grave assessment was made in 2003 by the man who would be his successor: “It is evident that today religious ignorance is enormous;…
A recent traditional women’s conference effectively blended generations in bringing the Catholic faith to women, reaching young women who came to the event. A Return to Tradition Catholic Women’s Conference was held in late August at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Catholic Church, a parish of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) in Littleton,…
A few years ago, I stumbled upon a stack of old copies of The Chesterton Review at a parish book sale; so naturally, I bought about 20 copies. The first edition I read was an issue focusing on the question of whether G.K. Chesterton was a fascist. The first essay proposed that he was a…
