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At the kitchen table Friday night, dinner dishes still in the sink, the house in darkness because the sun set while I wasn’t paying attention, I watched history unfold on the screen of my computer. Bishop Joseph Strickland addressed the crowd at the CPAC Ronald Reagan Dinner. He’d been invited to speak a month earlier,…
Author’s note: this is the final text of a talk given at The Collegium Gala last fall. The video of this presentation, which is an earlier draft of this essay, can be viewed here: In the year 1774 of the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King, on October the 14th, in the city…
February is a month filled with holidays and anniversaries both religious and civic, from Candlemas to Washington’s Birthday. But this year of 2024, with its current ongoing soap opera in the Holy See and upcoming American presidential election, two in particular catch my attention. The first is Ronald Reagan’s birthday on February 6, and the…
The debacle at St. Patrick’s Cathedral reminded me of two incidents from my time as a pastor in our Cleveland Mission parish in El Salvador. The first event happened before I got to the mission. Some women came for a funeral Mass and the pastor gave them the time. Funerals were usually the day after…
On this 2nd Sunday of Lent we find ourselves once again on the Mount of the Transfiguration. Keep in mind that, in the familiar account in Matthew, the Lord did not let His divinity shine out through His humanity. Rather, He let a little something of His divinity shine forth. Even that was enough to…
Author’s note and disclaimer: I wish a Russian soldier had never set foot on Ukrainian soil against his neighbour. This passage is not part of the article, but it feels necessary to add, asI am aware that any words of a Russian author about current events may be met with distrust as an attempt to…
The assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963, was one of the landmark moments and one of the most remembered events in twentieth-century history. The assassination of President Diem of Vietnam on All Souls’ Day 1963, only twenty days earlier, is probably more important as a landmark moment but is largely forgotten. Intriguingly, there…
We are excited to announce that the third and final installment of the Latin Mass trilogy Mass of the Ages: Guardians of Tradition will premiere on March 9th at the historic Pickwick Theater in Park Ridge, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. It will also screen in a few other cities and be available for free…
The Middle East is home to the earliest Christian communities in the history of the Catholic Church. But the homeland of Middle Eastern Christians, and the Holy Land of all Christians, has largely lost its Catholic character over the centuries—both in the religions largely practiced there and in the violence at large between those religions….
One of the trendy taglines from certain “conservative” or so-called “traditional” influencers is “high-value.” It is used to describe men (and sometimes women) who fit particular criteria. As I investigated this term, I found that when applied to men this term describes someone who is driven, generous, dynamic, and has goals; it’s a seemingly good…
