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A recent Crisis article criticized the practice of pro-life Catholics praying together with non-Catholic Christians at pro-life rallies, vigils, and demonstrations. The author, Kennedy Hall, suggested that the Church has taught it is “mortally sinful” for Catholics to pray with Protestants and with those of other Christian denominations at such events, especially when non-Catholic Christian……
The latest sacrilegious controversy from France had the contradiction of an extremely bold anti-Christian symbolism joined with outright official lying about it. Although it has been common to call the drag show dramatization “blasphemous,” I understand that blasphemy is usually verbal or written, while sacrilege has to do with physical acts about religious persons, places,…
By now you’ve likely seen the severe race-rioting that has just broken out all across the United Kingdom. According to prestigious U.S. sources like the New York Times and NBC, these are led purely by Far-Right white racists stirred into action by neo-Nazis spreading disinformation online in the wake of a mass stabbing of little…
Above: Pope Francis leaves after celebrating a Divine Liturgy and the beatification of seven martyred bishops of the Eastern-rite Romanian Catholic Church at Liberty Field in Blaj, Romania, June 2, 2019. PAUL HARING/CNS Confusing Traditionalism with some sort of irreflective cultural Conservatism, people are inclined to think that it is all about the past. On…
“Soylent Green is made out of people!” shouts the hero, Detective Robert Thorn, to the crowds in sweaty, grimy, overpopulated New York City, in the faraway year 2022, after the oceans have mostly died and the world has become a sink of filth, inhumanity, and ignorance. The Soylent Corporation had been advertising its new and…
In 2018, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI addressed in an essay how the Vatican historically came to accept the idea of a modern State of Israel. It was only on the grounds of it being a modern constitutional State and operating according to international law. He emphasized the decision was not done without a “theological doctrine”…
Being a faithful Catholic in the modern world seems weird to those who have embraced the modernist radical materialism that permeates so much of the culture. The recent claims by Kamala Harris and her campaign surrogates that J.D. Vance is “weird” is really a coded attack on his Catholic faith and his belief that what…
The anonymous ballad whose lyrics we have opened with was penned around 1642. At that time, the Puritan Parliament was beginning its hostilities against not only King Charles I (whom, in the end, it would murder) and his Cavalier supporters, but all that was left of Merry—indeed, Catholic—England. So, too, did it make war on…
Urban Hannon. Thomistic Mystagogy: St. Thomas Aquinas’s Commentaries on the Mass. Foreword by Hugh Barbour, O. Praem. Lincoln, NA: Os Justi Press, 2024. pp. 174. It would never have occurred to medieval disciples of the Angelic Doctor to suppose that he was anything other than a mystagogue, for they inhabited a mystical world whose spell…
Bl. Idefonso Schuster (+1954) wrote about this 11th Sunday after Pentecost, “now the heavy clusters are taking on luscious color upon the smiling hills of the Roman Campagna.” In our northern hemisphere, however you calculate their duration, we are deep into the Dog Days, the dies caniculares, when serious heat imposes on the terrestrial with…
