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Editor’s note: below is an unofficial English translation of the Communiqué of Patriarch Sviatoslav on the reception of the Declaration Fiducia supplicans, originally published on December 22, 2023 here. Kyiv Ref. MA 23/326 22 December 2023 of the year of our Lord Communiqué regarding the reception in the UGCC of the Declaration of the Dicastery…
But when Cephas was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed (Gal. ii. 11) Brethren in Christ, we are living in the glorious times of the saints! This is an awesome time to be a Catholic. Let us thank Almighty God that He has chosen us to…
Editor’s note: this statement was released by the German Catholic women’s organization Maria 1.0 on the day after Fiducia Supplicans. STATEMENT ON FIDUCIA SUPPLICANS BY THE DICASTERY FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH Sin is still not love! Yesterday, on December 18, 2023, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, under its Prefect Victor Emanuel Fernández,…
Cooking a Christmas meal for a large number of people can be a stressful occasion—especially if you don’t have enough food to go around for everyone. Just such a problem once faced a Texas-based Jesuit priest and charismatic prayer leader named Rick Thomas, who, on Christmas Day 1972, headed south of the border to Juarez…
With Christmas just days away, I decided to change the trajectory of my column for this week, given the merriment that is upon us. Yes, Pope Francis has launched one of the worst bombs at Tradition and common sense in Church history; yes, Cardinal Fernandez has signed off on James Martin’s dream—our nightmare; yes, the…
If you’re reading this, it means that most likely, you’re the kind of person who genuinely cares about what is good and decent and right, and no matter what the obstacles are, you want to see truth prevail. Since my fundraising appeal last week, we’ve doubled our progress toward our monthly goal from 19% to…
Two years ago, about two weeks into Advent, I posed a question to my class of high school sophomores: What will you get Jesus for His birthday? We spend so much time thinking about what we will give our loved ones—we are intentional, searching for the thing that will demonstrate how well we know them…
It was a Friday night in the summer. The painters were not yet finished in the school. A drunk showed up at the door and I dispatched him. Then I got a phone call. Because the man calling was sobbing, it took me a while to understand what he was talking about. Someone had died…
Above: the 14th century Archcathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Lviv. Editor’s note: On December 19, 2023, the Roman Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ukraine published the following response to Fiducia supplicans on their official website here. Below is an unofficial English translation by OnePeterFive: Communiqué of the Ukrainian [Roman Catholic]…
Hell Is Proof of Man’s Exalted Dignity The Offertory prayers speak of how God “wondrously endowed dignity to human nature.”[1] The eternity of Hell manifests the proof of this exalted dignity in two ways. The first is that man’s soul is immortal. The only time that God still creates out of nothing is the creation…
