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While observing the expanding war, I’ve been thinking about the detonation of bombs into childhoods. In the deep interior of Mexico last week, at Villa de los Niños in Guadalajara, I walked paths with and fell into new friendships with three American combat veterans. We ate meals together, prayed shoulder-to-shoulder, told jokes, and attended Mass…
Truth has such a clear and calm power. My aim in pastoral work is this: to help by the power of truth.—Romano Guardini The late, great Pope Benedict XVI (1927-2022) writes in his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, “Charity, in fact, ‘rejoices in the truth’ (1 Cor 13:6).” He adds, “Only in truth does charity…
“An historic step forward.” That’s how Jimmy “Bridge to Hell” Martin praised it. Pope Francis has committed yet another “heresy of practice.” What just happened? In a document issued only in Italian (since no one in Rome seems to know the Roman language any more), two kinds of persons are put forth and “welcomed” and…
There is little doubt that we are living in dark times. Caesar, the secular power, encourages the culture of death and decay at home and fans the flames of war abroad; Judas, the enemy within, denies that chastity is a virtue and joins forces with those who advocate sexual Pride. Caesar is always with us;…
Ohio’s Issue One, which enshrines abortion on demand—and up to nine months of pregnancy—has won. We know that it was an unequal struggle: the proponents of abortion outspent the opponents of this extremist abortion amendment by 3 to 1. Much of that money has been from out of state. The millionaires and celebrities who have…
Pope Francis stays on message with the release of his latest motu propio entitled Ad Theologiam Promovendam (“to promote theology”), continuing his refrain that the Church needs to reach the peripheries. Maintaining this as his primary mission is unobjectionable as Christ called all sinners, tax collectors and prostitutes, Jew and Gentile alike. On this same…
Spiritual pilgrimages were an integral component of Christendom in the Middle Ages. Christianity heavily influenced the lives of people in medieval society. The connection of the soul to the earthly world was closely linked through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, liturgical living, and the observation of feasts and fasts. Faith did not have a…
If you read the Catechism of the Catholic Church from front to back, you’ll note that at least 98% of the content has nothing to do with the papacy. Creation, Original Sin, the Incarnation, hypostatic union, the Resurrection, moral commands against killing and lying, the inspiration of Scripture, sacramental grace, the all-male priesthood: none reference…
In a new interview with LifeSite News, Cardinal Müller, the former head of the Holy Office said that Pope Francis “has already uttered plenty of material heresies,” but that since these are not formal heresies, Pope Francis has not lost his office. He affirmed the theory of St. Robert Bellarmine, whose opinion was that the…
We sat in our last NFP class and listened as the instructors briefly mentioned the statistics for infertility. I don’t remember what they were; but I do remember thinking, “What if that’s us?” That was in December 2006, one month after we were married. Over a year later, in February 2008, I wrote the following…
