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My generation first met the happy, hippie “Jesus” in our 1970s and ’80s CCD classes. He was a super-nice dude, not scary or stern or particularly demanding. This was a new, enlightened era, after all, and the old paradigms would no longer do. As I’ve often described of those vacuous catechetical times, “the God presented…
The Roman Station for this 1st Sunday of Lent is Rome’s Cathedral, the Basilic of St. John Lateran, referred to as the “Mother Church of the City and of the World”. It’s full title is the Papal Archbasilica Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and of Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in the…
There are two opposite yet equally erroneous views about Christ that St. Ignatius of Antioch needs very directly to confront in his correspondence with the churches of Asia and Rome—that of Docetism and Judaism. Of the two, Docetism poses the more significant danger. In fact, in his Letter to the Smyrnaeans, which is the penultimate…
Western Civilization lives. I saw it peeking through the broken concrete three times last week; four times if you include orchestrated Beatles as Western Civilization, and I do, hey, hey, hey, and I do. First up was Canto Vocal, an international school of opera headquartered in Northern Virginia but with programs in Toulouse, France and…
There was a thin window of opportunity in 1930s Germany to oppose the Nazi regime before it acquired absolute power—and opposition became a death sentence. If Christian pastors had stood as a body united in the Gospel, and countered the Nazi propaganda in time, how many millions of lives might have been preserved? We have…
As our editorial stance declares, we are here to rebuild Christendom. The reign of Christ the King began in the family and only after many generations did it spread to the “father of the nation” – the King. As such, reclaiming the family is essential to this goal. However, despite many good efforts to defend…
Addressing this subject is a task fraught with danger. For the doctrinal vacuum created in the past sixty years of “spirit of the Council” convulsions has left not a few Catholics stranded in a kind of no-man’s-land. Unanchored by the hallowed Tradition and traditions of the Church’s millennial treasures, they find themselves scrounging for scraps…
On Sunday night, millions of Americans turned on their televisions to participate in the quasi-religious celebration of the 58th Super Bowl. As all viewers had their eyes turned toward another Chiefs vs. 49ers game or Taylor Swift’s box-suite antics, the National Football League subjected everyone to the infamous, liberal “He Gets Us” advertisements. The “He…
St. Valentine did not believe in soft love. He preached and died for a sacrificial love that counts no cost. While so many will celebrate Valentine’s Day with chocolates, flowers, and desserts, there is something different being offered to us all this year. Since Valentine’s Day lands on the same day as Ash Wednesday this…
While passing the local Episcopal church on the way to work the other day, I noticed a new sign: “Ashes to Go! Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 7-9 AM.” I’m not sure what that means, but all my potential theories aren’t good. Catholics, after all, also have “ashes to go” in the sense that very few…
