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Sunday the Feast of the Dedication of the Papal Archbasilica of the Most Holy Savior and St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist, which we call St John Lateran. Pope Benedict XVI, in a homily for this feast, wrote: “In this temple of stone we see reflected the spiritual temple which is the…
For more than 40 years Crisis Magazine has worked to expose and oppose the cultural forces both inside and outside the Church that turn us against the good, the true, and the beautiful. I believe Crisis has been fulfilling that mission admirably, and we will continue to do so going forward. Yet, exposing and opposing…
It might strike many college professors—immersed in a campus atmosphere that writes off the American Founders for complicity in slavery—as odd that I still get, at my little Catholic liberal arts college, questions every year from students about George Washington being a Freemason. In the midst of the preparations for the 250th anniversary of the…
“Two parents have generated us for death; two parents have generated us for life.” This is a statement St. Augustine proclaimed in Sermon 22. The parents of death are, of course, Adam and Eve—as they ushered in original sin and the Fall of man. And who are the parents of life? Namely, according to Augustine—none…
Editor’s note: reminder that anyone who devoutly visits a cemetery during the Octave (between November 1st and 8th), praying — even mentally — for the departed, may obtain one plenary indulgence per day, applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, under the usual conditions. Above: photo credit. From the Patristic readings at Matins in the…
While the government shutdown continues and health-care reform remains gridlocked, Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) burdens taxpayers with out-of-control costs. For more than a decade, Obamacare has been riddled with systemic fraud that has been denied by Democratic Party bureaucrats, ignored by much of the media, and paid for by weary taxpayers. Built on lies…
How well are seminaries doing in forming the priests we need to reform the Church—one dominated by a lavender mafia? A useful assessment is the recently-published 171 page study “Evaluating the Church’s Practices in Assessing the Suitability of Candidates for Holy Orders,” by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University and…
Editor’s note: reminder that anyone who devoutly visits a cemetery during the Octave (between November 1st and 8th), praying — even mentally — for the departed, may obtain one plenary indulgence per day, applicable only to the souls in Purgatory, under the usual conditions. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent,…
OnePeterFive Podcast On Mary as Mediatrix of All Graces by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange 00:00 / 00:26:56 St. Thomas says… Source Read More
King Charles III has removed the “Style, Titles and Honours” of his brother Prince Andrew. The move is likely in response to resurfaced allegations of sexual misconduct in Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumous memoir Nobody’s Girl. So the second son of Queen Elizabeth II will now be known simply as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. What are we…
