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We are on the brink of the 2024 presidential election—which, perhaps more than ever, has us on the brink of preserving this wonderful nation or losing it. Is it true that some Catholics still don’t know for whom they are going to vote, or if they are going to vote? What more do they need…
While we might think that this Sunday we celebrate the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, or the 30th in the in Novus Ordo, in the Vetus Ordo this Sunday is the Feast of Christ the King. As always in these essays we try to get some context, to help us understand better the content of our…
This week I am returning from a retreat in which I was happy to check out of the constant news cycle from the Vatican during the latest installment of “meeting about meeting.” I spent two days editing articles about the joy of the faith: the history of music, Romanitas, Halloween, and more. I wasn’t yet…
I am grateful to Mr. Timothy Flanders for asking me to write this piece in honour of the recently deceased Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais — henceforth referred to as Bishop Tissier as he is commonly called — but I must admit that it is a daunting task to remember such a great man with…
It’s hard to tell if the popularity of certain ideas on Catholic podcasts and social media accounts signals the overall popularity of those ideas or just one small corner of the digital realm. I’d like to think that most faithful Catholics are too busy spending time with their families, building their parish communities, doing charity,…
Is it any coincidence that the leaders of the Catholic Church discovered in 1962 that the Catholic Church must be more “participatory” and less “clerical”—in other words, more democratic? After 2,000 years the Holy Spirit, we are to believe, came upon Holy Mother Church and decided that it was time for this ancient institution to…
Editor’s note: join hundreds of other Catholics in our lay sodality of fasting for the next fasting period starting next month. Our Lord is the role model and we are His followers. Like the Apostles, we too are admonished to advance in both prayer and fasting as the means to grow in sanctity, to habituate…
While I have not yet reached my fifth decade on this earth, I am still old enough to remember when adults were figures of authority. Once upon a time, youthful poor decision-making was met by an adult with a firm, loving correction tinged with a hint of nostalgia for a time when they, too, required…
Left-leaning Americans, do you want to know why erstwhile good people are flocking to support Donald Trump? Do you really want to understand it and actually grapple with the reasons why people who you once saw as decent fellow Americans are supporting the man you believe to be a lecherous, grifting, egomaniacal political opportunist and…
Above: Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez. Photo credit. As President of the FIUV, I’m delighted to announce, as per our official Press Release, that we have awarded the ‘de Savanthem Medal’ to Cardinal Juan Sandoval Íñiguez, sometime Archbishop of Guadalajara in Mexico, and to Sir James MacMillan, the Scottish composer, for their role in the petitions…
