The Great Sifting — By: Crisis Magazine

This past weekend I attended a Men’s Eucharistic Procession in downtown Cincinnati with about 800 men (including almost 100 priests and seminarians). I first attended this annual event seven years ago, when about 200 men processed through the streets of Cincinnati. The 300% increase in attendance during that time is encouraging, to say the least….

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May a Bishop in Extraordinary Circumstances Ordain Another Bishop Without Papal Consent? — By: OnePeterFive

That the Church of Christ is Apostolic and that among the Apostles the primacy belongs to Peter and to his successors is a truth clearly established in Scripture and Holy Tradition. Nevertheless, the exact content of such primacy is something the understanding of which has developed in history. It is when a special crisis arises…

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Venerable and Blessed Founders of the Russian Catholic Exarchate — By: OnePeterFive

Above: Venerable Andrey Sheptytsky in 1910. Part I: What is the Russian Catholic Church? Introduction Part II: Heralds of a Catholic Russia   Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky (1865-1944) I would insist here that Venerable Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky was head of the  remaining western offspring of the once united and Catholic Metropolis of Kiev. The initial  canonical…

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Bitter Pills — By: Crisis Magazine

“Do you have any weapons on you?” the officer asked. “No, officer,” I replied with assurance. We were on a side street in a residential neighborhood. On the main adjacent thoroughfare, cars edged nervously past as the lights from the squad car threw off red and blue reflections into the intersection, letting all bystanders know…

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