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By now you are probably tired of hearing about the blasphemy and mockery of Our Lord that took place at the Olympic opening ceremonies. I know I am. It was an egregious display and set the tone for the whole event, an event that I have avoided in its entirety but for a clip here…
Above: Roman Catholic church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Kursk (Russia). Read part 1 Read part 2 In this last part of our journey we will see where theory meets reality as we apply the schemes and drafts of the Fathers to the current crisis in all of its brightest manifestations. Let…
Above: Rev. Marián Potáš, OSBM, Easter Greek Catholic blessing of Paska in Litmanová, Stará Ľubovňa district, Slovakia. Read Part 1 Although one might take the passage as cited from some present-day traditionalist bestseller, it was actually written in the 4th century by an Eastern Catholic bishop. His name was Basil the Great of Caesarea and…
We have a particularly rich offering of absurdities in this edition of “This Just In.” At the opening of the Olympics, many were worried about the sewage level in the Seine River endangering Olympic aquatic contestants. How could anyone swim in that muck? Little did they know that the worst sewage would be floating on…
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”…
