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A few months after we reported on Bishop’s Schneider’s new spiritual crusade for 2024, recently Cardinal Burke has launched his own initiative: a nine-month Novena imploring Our Lady of Guadalupe to deliver the Church. His effort immediately reminded me of the nine year novena of Poles against the Communists led by Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński back…
In Super Hanc Petram Fr Serafino Lanzetta studies with care the teachings of the present Pope, a task which all his admirers will agree is very laudable. Speaking for myself, one of the many doctrines of Pope Francis with which I fully agree is that “the reality is greater than the idea”. In this case,…
Almost five years ago, I visited an old friend and his family one weekend. As a bachelor, I have often found inspiration from my friends with large Catholic families. This time, I found more than I bargained for. While lying in bed to go to sleep the first night I was there, I felt something…
Last weekend we decided to take a trip across the border to Port Huron, Michigan, to do a bit of shopping. Like the majority of Canadians who make the same international trip in search of lower prices and cheap gas, we shopped at Hobby Lobby, Target, and T.J. Maxx. I may have stopped into Wild…
It may seem like a lifetime ago, but some may still recall the habited Catholic nun who spoke at the Republican National Convention of August 2020. She held up her Rosary and exclaimed: “This is our most powerful weapon!” With lightning speed, a post appeared on social media from a priest. He moaned that the…
Four years ago, right before Covid changed the world, my husband and I decided to embrace all the obstacles that came with attending the nearest Traditional Latin Mass (TLM). We had moved back to our hometown two years earlier and could not find a parish home. We craved something that we couldn’t put into words….
Those who enjoy geopolitical studies know well that one of the strategies for strengthening the identity of groups, states, and nations is that of creating the enemy. That is, the perception of an enemy strengthens internal cohesion and allows the implementation of measures that under normal conditions would be impractical to propose. Let’s think, for…
It has been three years since the President of the United States said the following: “There’s not a single thing a man can do that a woman can’t do as well or better. Not a single thing.” This was surely to many, of course, one of the most triumphant statements by a man on the…
Were there ever Catholic voting blocs in the United States? Yes. Are there Catholic voting blocs today? Yes and no. Let me explain. For most of the 20th century, there were monolithic blocs of urban Catholic voters who determined the outcomes of many Federal, State and local elections. These Catholics, whom Cardinal Timothy Dolan fondly…
Disclaimer: this article describes some of the darkness of Vatican corruption. Cardinal Martini, the architect of the St. Gallen Mafia, had an auxiliary bishop in Milan. That man was Francesco Coccopalmerio, whom Benedict XVI elevated to the cardinalate a year before he resigned. You may shudder to remember Cardinal Coccopalmerio from the Capozzi affair –…
