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From what I gather on what is called, with irony that could only come from Hell’s own propaganda department, “social media,” the main causes of the decline in churchgoing are to be attributed to conservatives. They do not welcome people of the whole range of oddball sexual proclivities, they insist upon liturgies that put everyone…
June 13th is the feast day of St. Anthony of Padua (1195-1231). On this day, in 1231, 36-year-old Anthony, a Franciscan priest, was given last rites and died. Although most people are familiar with St. Anthony because he is the patron saint of lost objects, his nickname during his lifetime was “The Hammer of Heretics.”…
If you have ever shown up early to church and found yourself quietly paging through your hand missal—let’s say, a Saint Andrew Daily Missal reprint from 1945—you might have stumbled across a section of Mass formularies that may be unfamiliar owing to the rarity of their use. Some of these will be identified as Votive…
Above: a Eucharistic procession with St. Mary’s, FSSP. Photo by Allison Girone. A few years before Covid I was a Eucharistic Minister in one of the parishes in my area. I remember one time when a priest told me, in front of the congregation, to divide the Hosts into different containers. That caught me by…
We all know what this month means: Pride. But Pride in what? Well, in pride. If you had successfully reversed several millennia of religious teaching that sodomy is a moral abomination in a mere 50 years, you’d be proud too. First Lady Jill Biden is proud. At the Human Rights Campaign in Los Angeles, she…
The eightieth anniversary of the D-Day landing in Normandy during World War II has come and passed, and this will be the last commemoration for many veterans of that operation. Commentary on the yearly events held in France evinced a noticeably nostalgic quality; America’s victory in World War II and its memory might be one…
Above: the monastic cloisters of Durham Cathedral. Photo by Lawrence OP. Peter Kwasniewski & Sebastian Morello Dear Sebastian, My wife and I, both Benedictine oblates, read aloud last night your three essays on Benedictine monasticism[1] that you published in The European Conservative. Our views coincide to a very great extent. Norcia is the place in…
As I stated in previous columns, Ugandans don’t have much experience of homosexuality. What there is of it in their culture is largely unseen. One of my challenges was to help them understand the phenomenon of homosexuality and why a compassionate response is warranted. My lifetime work on contraception has led me to look closely…
This past weekend there were three events in one city that showed two paths forward for conservatives. Beginning at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, thousands of people walked through the streets of Northeast Washington, D.C., praying and singing. It was not a protest but a pilgrimage. As part of the…
In his seminal work, The Restoration of Christian Culture, John Senior argues, and rather brilliantly demonstrates, that Christian culture essentially arises from the Mass. From this cosmic center point, he insists, emanate all the treasures of art, architecture, music, literature, politics, economics, social forms, customs and the entire cultural patrimony of Western Civilization (as the……
