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When the first rites of blessing for same-sex couples came out in the Anglican church, they were accompanied by a lot of bluster about how they were not to be equated with marriage rites and that they did not constitute a change in doctrine. In 2003, the Anglican Diocese of New Westminster in Canada published…
When I visit Rome, at least once during my time there I go to the Ara Pacis or “Altar of Peace” of the Emperor Augustus Caesar (+14), which is housed in dreadful building that looks like a gas station. I don’t go in to see the actual altar. What I revisit is the supporting wall…
The Glory of Paradise St. Benedict sums up the spiritual necessity of the Four Last Things in his chapter “What Are the Instruments of Good Works”: To have wholesome fear of the day of judgment. With fear to shrink from hell. To long for eternal life with all spiritual desire. To have the expectation of…
Few novelists have been feted with praise as much as the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881). Numerous intellectuals regarded him as the prophet of their age, quite literally. Albert Camus proclaimed Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx, the “prophet of the twentieth century.” The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche despised Christianity but admired the Orthodox… Source…
While the world has gone crazy over the latest insanity from the Vatican regime of Iconoclasm, and some Catholics are struggling with their faith and tempted to leave the Ark of Salvation (God forbid!), a new teaser trailer has been released for the movie about Sr. Wilhelmina: In the rush of news since I got…
I recently heard a podcast stating “that Mary lacked knowledge of Christ’s divine nature at some point in her life after his birth.” I’ll let that sink in. This was based on the producer’s private interpretation of Lk. 8:19-21. If this sounds like a sour note in a piece of music, or more likely fingernails…
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…
