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There was a time, two centuries ago, when the Catholic Church was woefully weak in the Anglophone world. The British Empire was beginning to straddle the globe, spreading its creed of Enlightenment philosophy and utilitarianism. In the relatively young United States of America, the new nation was stamped with the Puritanism of many of its…
This month marks a critical juncture in the ongoing fight against abortion in the United States. As Walgreens and CVS begin dispensing mifepristone (Mifeprex ®) in many of their retail pharmacy locations—and before the Supreme Court considers reinstating restrictions on the same—we must pause to consider mifepristone’s brutal history and raise awareness of rapidly changing…
In the year of the reign of Jesus Christ 2021, way back in July when “Jailers of Tradition” first came out – almost three years ago at this point – the Holy Father summed up the lies he had imbibed against Trads when he said falsely that the desire for the ancient Roman Rite was…
When it comes to temptation, we are all experts. It is a subject we’ve all mastered, a class we could all teach. It is also, quite paradoxically, an area of our lives where failure is all too frequent. The teacher is no better than the pupil; indeed, they are two sides of the same coin….
So much for the “big brotherhood” Pope Francis invited Catholics to share during his first speech from the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica (unless there is another Big Brother that Pope Francis bends the knee to). If the white flag is a form of courage—as Francis said, urging Ukraine to surrender to Russia and earning…
Above: Pope Francis and Baba Tawadros II in Cairo in 2017. © L’Osservatore Romano The Coptic Orthodox Church has now suspended its ecumenical dialogue with Rome. This is in the context of a decades-long struggle for true Eastern ressourcement, in the face of the false Neo-Modernist Ecumenism. Let’s have some of the context to shed…
As I write these words, it is Lent of 2024. As with everything in life, some things are perennial, others temporal—linked to a fleeting moment in time. So, in all the Rites of the Church, East and West, it is that penitential period which has followed Pre-Lent or Shrovetide, Christmas, Advent or St. Philip’s Fast,…
It’s an election year in America, which means that the political Left is trotting out its favorite fearmongering apparatuses again. For the past few years, politicians and pundits alike have leaned heavily on terms like “far right,” “bigoted,” racist,” “transphobic,” and “extremist”; but topping the list of late has been “Christian nationalist.” But what is…
Often presented as a quintessential summation of the Rule of St. Benedict, the phrase ora et labora is actually of medieval origin, being found nowhere in the Rule itself. Yet this distillation of the Benedictine life misses an essential component that even a cursory reading of the Rule reveals: the place of Lectio Divina and…
In the span of a few brief centuries, what was once an uncharted wilderness has risen to become the single most powerful nation on earth: the United States of America. This great nation is currently governed by a President who claims to be Roman Catholic: a tenure of Church–State relations that should have been cause…
