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Papal imprudence started very early. On the heels of Jesus’ declaration that St. Peter was the Rock on which He was to build His Church, the apostle tried to tone down Christ’s teaching, rebuking the Lord saying, “God forbid, Lord! This shall never happen to you” (Matthew16:22). Scripture attests that even after Pentecost the Vicar…
Above: Soviet Army in Kiev, 1920 Part I: What is the Russian Catholic Church? Introduction Part II: Heralds of a Catholic Russia Part III: Venerable and Blessed Founders of the Russian Catholic Exarchate The revolution struck hard. In 1918, the number of Catholic parishioners in St. Petersburg alone was 400 lay people with a few thousand…
While there is no record regarding the length of his stay in Smyrna, nor a word about hotel arrangements (Was he put in first class, perhaps?), there is no disputing the fact as to why St. Ignatius of Antioch was there. Owing to his status as a condemned criminal bound for execution in Rome, he…
There was a man of great authority, position, and influence who had many daughters and sons. This man’s place in the world was singular in rank yet also one of great service. To him was given the rights and duties of a Second in Command of a vast army; a household with no parallel; a…
We continue this liturgical year’s task with a look into Colossians 1:12-20, our pericope for Holy Mass at the Epistle for this last Sunday of October. As the last October Sunday, it is the Feast of Christ the King in the Church’s 1962 calendar. In the Novus Ordo Christ as King is celebrated on the…
In the classic 1965 cartoon A Charlie Brown Christmas, amateur psychiatrist and unreliable football holder Lucy Van Pelt reveals what she really desires for a present: “real estate.” How fitting that the very year she first uttered that sentiment—the year in which Vatican II wrapped up its business—the Catholic Church began a downward trajectory in…
During the same week that Franciscan University of Steubenville held a conference seeking solutions to the growing problem of anti-Semitism, 1,919 academic sociologists signed an open letter denouncing Israel and the Jewish people. Several of the signers of the anti-Semitic letter are current professors on Catholic campuses here and abroad. Demanding “an immediate ceasefire,” the…
Dated on the feast of St. Athanasius, Bishop Athanasius Schneider has issued a formally canonical catechism as a part of his participation in the ordinary Magisterium of the Church. The Rome release was today. “This work was not my idea. I was compelled to write it by the Catholic faithful.” –@BishopAthanas1 pic.twitter.com/ZIiTISQmmV — OnePeterFive (@OnePeterFive)…
Rummage sales hold a particular fascination for me. Many of the items for sale are not quite broken but, instead, unwanted—a dated picture frame, a comforter that no longer matches the bedroom paint, that “art” Grandma had over her sofa. Here in Michigan, autumn is rummage sale season, or, as I prefer to think of…
I have been struggling, as I am sure many of my fellow Crisis readers have been, between loyalty to the See of Peter and the seemingly woke direction of the current papacy which has convoked the Synod on Synodality. It is not that the pope has directly contradicted longtime magisterial teachings, although there are voices…
