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Until recently, I was not a significant devotee of the Rosary. Faithfully praying the Rosary was for me, at best, sporadic. That was the case until earlier this summer when my wife informed me that she was pregnant with our fourth child. Although happy, of course, I was also struck with an anxiousness that I…
During political turmoil, listen to St. Augustine of Hippo, who lived through and wrote about the fall of the Roman Empire “…what are kingdoms (or nations) but gangs of criminals on a large scale? What are criminal gangs, but petty kingdoms?” That doesn’t make any government look too good. “A gang is a group of…
The Gospel passage offered on high for this 20th Sunday after Pentecost is from John 4: 46-53. Remember: the readings at Mass also have a sacrificial character. That’s why in the Vetus Ordo they are also read by the priest (not just also a deacon) at the altar of sacrifice (and not just at the…
The Forty Martyrs of England and Wales were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970. Although they laid down their lives for the Faith over a period of almost 150 years, the first being executed under Henry VIII in 1535 and the last under Charles II in 1679, very few of them are household names,…
Above: Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary in Wigratzbad, with the Holy Father on February 4, 2022, shortly before the FSSP completed an urgent Novena and consecrated itself to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, just as His Holiness signed an explicit decree protecting…
This Saturday, October 5, there will be a major pilgrimage in the Washington, D.C. area in support of the Traditional Latin Mass. In July 2022, devastating restrictions on the TLM were imposed by the Vatican in the Diocese of Arlington and Archdiocese of Washington. Formerly, nearly thirty parishes in the metro D.C. area had regular…
Dan Brown and his attack book The Da Vinci Code turned out to be a real blessing for Opus Dei. It had the immediate effect of greater interest in Opus Dei. Membership increased. It also convinced Opus Dei to do things that had never been considered, like having conferences about what Opus Dei is all…
It’s inevitable that the pagans of our secular culture become wilder as the culture worsens. As our former culture of Christendom recedes further into the distant past, the theologically ignorant show their ignorance in increasingly alarming ways. Those miseducated by our government schools and lousy universities boldly step forth to loudly illustrate their shocking ignorance…
Above: Pope John Paul II in attendance with leaders of various world religions at the interfaith gathering in Assisi on October 27, 1986. Source: CNS/L’Osservatore Romano The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches both that faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for salvation (CCC 161) and that non-Christians can be saved (CCC 846–848). Since non-Christians…
Well, the synod circus has begun. We have been already treated to the hazardous ambiguities of a strange public penitential rite (which simultaneously condemned the evil spirit of the Pharisees): But yesterday some good news broke, which we should take with caution since, as Meloni pointed out a few months back, the St. Gallen Mafia…
