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As our planet whirls along we are walking together from summer into autumn in the still dominating Northern Hemisphere, where Holy Church arose and formed our liturgical rites and calendar. With our shift into the harvest and dying season, the Church now presents end of the world themes and glimpses of the Second Coming. For…
Louismas—it’s a feast unknown to many, but for Catholics of St. Louis, Missouri, it’s the crowning moment of every summer. On August 25th, six hundred faithful solemnly processed to the bronze apotheosis of Louis IX which stands in the city’s largest park. The event marked the culmination of the fifth annual Festival of Saint Louis,…
Perhaps there is no better test of the health of a culture than the way that it treats its children. The Canaanites sacrificed their own infants to Moloch; the Carthaginians slaughtered children to Baal; and the Aztecs and Mayans sacrificed children to feed their demonic gods until the Christian conquistadors put an end to the…
On Friday, September 13th Pope Francis delivered a speech to the youthful students at Singapore’s Catholic Junior College, a group which included many non-Christians. In it he fired a shot that has been heard round the world. Putting aside his prepared script, His Holiness began speaking spontaneously, with words that now, more than ever, we…
I am not a black nationalist, a black separatist, or any kind of black socialist revolutionary. However, I am deeply sympathetic to a group of them based here in Missouri and Florida. They seem to be the real deal and not like certain bougie Catholic race-mongers on social media. These folks seem to be the…
Recreational Catholicism? Let me explain. It is an attribution identifying the current stage of collapse in the Roman Church. Its coinage is meant to convey the tangled knot of the therapeutic, political, theatrical, and ego-massaging trend besetting the Church, all of which produces a kind a zombie Catholic, who is daily fed on what Huxley…
I don’t know much about Medjugorje. What I do know is that Dr. E. Michael Jones and Mr. Michael Davies never agreed on much during the latter’s lifetime. Davies and Jones had a famous debate over the SSPX “back in the day” as we say in the States: Davies was a longtime leader in the…
In my hometown of Chicago, supporters of Hamas recently protested in front of the Israeli consulate, where they burned American flags. (Why not Israeli flags? Can demonstrators have burned so many that there is now a shortage?) Lovers of theater should note the quality of the protestors’ dialogue: Protester: “So let’s go to those war…
Last week, I had a serious disagreement with a fellow teacher who also happens to be a good friend. Later that evening, I saw where I went wrong: I had not presented my side clearly. I saw my friend the next day and explained myself with the assurance that this would clear up our differences….
St. Ignatius of Loyola was investigated by the Spanish Inquisition and was quite docile through the ordeal. Perhaps an echo of what he experienced can be heard in one of the principles he laid out in his Spiritual Exercises about putting the best construction on the expressions of other people that touch on God and…
