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Above: Pontificio istituto di musica sacra in Rome. Fifty years ago, on April 17, 1976—Holy Saturday—Monsignor Lavinio Virgili died in Rome at the age of 74. As noted in the 1974 award that crowned his career, he was recognized for “his outstanding gifts as a musician and his fruitful versatility as a composer, choirmaster, and…
When I began to see Regis Martin’s “Why Being Rather Than Nothingness?” series showing up among my Crisis email reminders, I was immediately intrigued because (1) It’s Regis Martin! and (2) It is the question above all questions: the question every soul wants answered and doesn’t want answered. How’s that? Well, we want to know…
The president seems to be surprised that Catholics of all stripes are rushing to defend Pope Leo from his odd attacks. On Tuesday he went after Giorgia Meloni of Italy. She said his attacks on Leo were “unacceptable.” He said, “She’s unacceptable. She’s unacceptable because she doesn’t mind that Iran has a nuclear weapon and…
OnePeterFive Podcast Is There Any Tradition More Important than the TLM? Yes. And it’s the “One Thing Necessary” 00:00 / 00:07:53 Dear OnePeterFive… Source Read More
For 125 years, Dominican Sisters belonging to an order founded by Venerable Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa, O.P.), the youngest child of Nathaniel Hawthorne, have lovingly nursed the poor dying of cancer at Rosary Hill Home in Hawthorne, New York. According to the Westchester County facility’s website, Rosary Hill Home accepts no remuneration from…
It felt like a scene taken out of the Middle Ages—only much sillier. A political leader publicly calls out the pope for his lack of support for a particular military engagement. It riles up the faithful, who now feel conflicted between their country and their Faith. Finally, everyone demands some kind of response from the…
A common narrative of Western intellectual history—one which I have been exposed to for a time—runs as follows: the scientific revolution marked the beginning of a gradual decline in philosophy, theology, and Christian faith. Although inklings of this decline were already present in Roger Bacon (c. 1220-c. 1292), Duns Scotus (c. 1265-1308), and William of…
Just steps from Preterm, Ohio’s blue-ribbon winner each year for most murdered babies, the scene outside resembles a kindly pop-up country fair. Slices of pepperoni pizza, snack bags, racks of sharp-looking maternity wear, shiny new toys, rosaries, and Miraculous Medals circulate like borrowed cups of sugar—passed hand to hand among white volunteers and their black…
Above: Archbishop Lefebvre with Pope Pius XII. Before proceeding, it is important to establish a couple of necessary distinctions. One can speak about a rupture between the Vatican and a group of priests without thereby speaking about schism in the sense of a spiritual crime. While it is fitting to the Church that the Pope…
“If you have tears to shed, prepare to do so now.” This was the inscription I used to write whenever I gave a copy of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair to anyone as a gift. Perhaps I did it because, upon first reading Greene’s final text of his so-called Catholic teratology, whose other…
