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Dear Fathers, As we find ourselves in Lent and then Eastertide thereafter, I plead to the priests of our nation as a son to a father. And I come to you not only as a sinner but as a man who once lived as dissolute a life as the worst Roman pagan. I am grateful…
News broke last week that Church Militant had lost a defamation lawsuit to the tune of $500,000 and would cease operations in April as a result. The staff of Church Militant have already been carrying the heavy cross of the public repentance of Michael Voris which he announced this past November. As I said back…
The aspiration of Fiducia Supplicans (FS) is well summed up in a beautiful verse in the Psalms: “Mercy and truth have met each other: justice and peace have kissed” (85:11, Vulgate). At one and the same time, it seeks to proclaim the Gospel truth about marriage and to reach out in mercy—through the offering of…
Last month, the redoubtable Jordan Peterson sat down with reporter Colm Flynn of EWTN (the Eternal Word Television Network) to discuss a variety of topics, including his wife Tammy’s miraculous recovery from cancer, the widespread loss of faith in the Catholic Church since the 1960s, and Pope Francis’ “fixation” on “climate change.” The term “fixation”…
The eyes of the Trad world were on Rome last week when the Holy Father received in audience several clerical heads of the priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, including Fr. Andrzej Komorowski, Superior General of the FSSP, Fr. Benoît Paul-Joseph, Superior of the District of France, and Fr. Vincent Ribeton, Rector of St. Peter’s Seminary…
Incidental to the Church’s teaching on Purgatory—a place not a few of us are likely to spend some time in—is the fact that if it did not exist it would surely have to be invented. Now how consoling is that? And do not take my word for it. It was our late pope Benedict XVI—who,…
Have you noticed that we are living in the Age of the Aged? Most of our ruling elite, from Joe Biden to Mitch McConnell, are in their 80s or near their 80s. What a reversal from the historical norm, in which the few individuals who survived into their 9th decade were content to be respected…
Above: a painting of Santiago Matamoros (St. James the Moor Slayer) by Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614-1685) The Pilgrimage of Nuestra Señora de la Cristiandad to Covadonga in Spain concluded last year on the eve of the Solemnity of St James the Greater, Apostle and Patron of Spain, celebrated the following day on Tuesday 25th…
One now finds it difficult to live without a smartphone. During a recent visit to a doctor’s office to procure a physical, the only way to complete my intake process was via my iPhone. Not long before that, I found myself incapable of purchasing food on a transcontinental flight because to do so required downloading…
We hardly know how to measure strong women anymore; modern feminism has so bent the rules. Feminism, once a virtuous philosophy worthy of St. Edith Stein and St. John Paul II, has become a cesspool that Catholics, women and men, instinctively avoid. So, is the tale of a particularly strong woman, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini,…
