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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…
I’ve never been a cable TV subscriber so, by default, I have never been a Fox News fan, but I did see some of Tucker Carlson’s early work on YouTube. It was back in the day when his show consisted of bringing on a guest and questioning them into a corner. Often his “guest” was…
Young people, we are told, and we have eyes to see it, are unhappy. Those in the pharmaceutical industry are aware of the vein of gold that depression has opened up, with ordinary and unhappy people plying the pickax. That shouldn’t surprise any sensible Christian, who ought to know where some measure of earthly happiness…
Carl Trueman’s book The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self is a true genealogy of one branch of modernity. Although published in 2020, I recently completed reading the book and wanted to recommend it to those who had not yet come across it. Trueman’s burden is to discover, in the history of the past…
