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It is hard to say which have been the lowest points in the history of the Church. The fourteenth century was pretty wretched. The papacy, exiled from Rome to Avignon, was largely in the pocket of the French monarchy. Then, after the pope finally returned to Rome, the French cardinals set up a rival pope,…
One thousand years ago, on April 19, 1024, Romano of the counts of Tusculum, brother of Pope Benedict VIII (†1024), was elected Pope with the name of John XIX. At the time of his election, he was still a layman, holding the positions of “consul, duke and senator of all the Romans.” During his pontificate,…
Our daughter Lucy is about to graduate high school and, in the fall, begin classes at the University of Dallas. Let me tell you her story, the beginning part anyway. My wife and I are late vocations to marriage. I was 47. Cathy was 39. Our first date was on the Feast of Joachim and…
HBO’s Real Time host and longtime leftist Bill Maher made headlines this past weekend when he chastised Republicans’ ever-shifting stance on abortion in a panel discussion on the Arizona Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling upholding a near-total abortion ban. The Arizona Court took up the case in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade,…
Editor’s note: this investigative report was written by our contributing editor, Kennedy Hall, who published it first on his Substack here. Recently it has been revealed that Father Rostand, a priest ordained by the Society of Saint Pius X, has been convicted of numerous counts of child abuse — pedophilia — by a French court….
Above: Ben Shapiro, Jewish leader of American Conservatism. Classical Liberalism – the metaphysical groundwork that undergirds American Conservatism – denies religious truth in principle. And if you happen to be a professing Christian, Liberalism forces you to deny reality and live an outright lie. Whether or not the American Founders fully understood the… Source Read…
Fr. Carlos Martins is the founder and director of Treasures of the Church, a Vatican-sponsored ministry of evangelization through the promotion of veneration of the relics of the saints. Martins is currently on a 100-city American tour with a relic of the arm of St. Jude, a tour which began in Chicago in September 2023,…
In this current age of mass media and constant Internet access, the process of theological reception can oftentimes be rushed and clumsy. The race is on, as it were, to forge and brandish one’s latest “hot take” on any given Church topic, document, or papal interview. Merely minutes after the introduction of Dignitas Infinita by…
Theodore: The idea that “something you don’t understand is more mysterious and awesome” has been a talking point for over a thousand years. What other reason can be given for keeping the laity completely and utterly ignorant of the Church’s liturgical prayers? Longinus: That seems like a huge exaggeration to me. The faithful are certainly…
So how committed to abortion are Americans really? This seems to be the burning question haunting the minds of pro-lifers right now. If we go by the recent referendums on abortion in reliably red states like Kansas or Ohio, then it seems like a majority of Americans really want the freedom to abort their unborn…
