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In the National Catholic Register, Fr. Raymond de Souza tries to articulate the discomfort some feel about the “Agatha Christie” petition that played a role in saving the Traditional Mass in 1971 and a new petition organized by Sir James MacMillan with a similar group of signatories to the same end. Non-Catholic cultural figures signed…
A specter is haunting America—the specter of “Christian nationalism.” All the powers of the Establishment have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this specter: Democrats and “mainstream” Republicans, MSNBC and CNN, media, Progressives, and talking heads. The only problem is: this specter cannot really be identified. It seems rather an amalgam of emanations from…
A few years ago, my friend’s father died. He was happily married for 54 years to his wife and best friend, and they had six children together. He was an active parishioner at St. Robert Bellarmine parish for 42 years, serving on the parish council and Pre-Cana team. He organized their parish March for Life…
Conservative Protestant intellectuals are concerned about their future in the American regime. “Roman Catholics have rapidly ascended to the pinnacle of cultural, intellectual, and political leadership,” write Brad Littlejohn and Chris Castaldo in their recent book Why Do Protestants Convert? When Americans today think of conservative Protestantism, the authors bemoan, they think not of luminaries……
Editor’s note: follow Synod Watch for analysis of the upcoming Synod on Synodality in Rome this fall. In his new article “Pope Francis Disappoints Progressives. He Will Do So Again,” Fr. Thomas Reese describes a source of frustration for some papal supporters: the slow pace of change in certain areas of the Church. From the…
Before excommunicating Viganò, the Vatican holds hands for a photo op with the German bishops. As many readers are well aware, the event of Vatican II was accurately described by Fr. Ralph Wiltgen as the “Rhine flowing into the Tiber.” Indeed, one Vatican insider told me this: So since Vatican II, we’ve had a curious…
You may have wondered, “Should Catholics use pronouns?” It may be near impossible not to. The simple and obvious answer, grammatically speaking, is yes, of course we should use pronouns if we want our language to be clear and correspond to reality. In the English language, we use pronouns all the time to keep sentences…
After his spectacularly dreadful debate performance against Donald Trump, Joe Biden jumped on the opportunity (if that phrase can be applied to the man) to calm the storm of calls for his resignation by having an interview on ABC—to prove to the 50 million debate watchers who cringingly watched him sputtering like an old jalopy…
Well, it happened. The most severe penalty has again been leveled against a Catholic Bishop by the Holy See, and Archbishop Viganò has been excommunicated (original Italian decree here). My first thought at hearing the news made me grieve with the words of the Prophet: why do the wicked prosper? Who will rise up for…
Clock off. Shove the papers in your briefcase; it’s quittin’ time. Time to head home. And then what? It seems to me that even among Christians committed to living a life not entirely subject to their phones, and who appreciate good books, art, and music, there is often a lethargy in actively seeking out leisure…
