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Proudhon’s rabid and raging cry against capitalism, “property is theft,” has echoed from its original utterance in the 19th century into the 21st. Now found both online and on placards at rallies, it has escaped its anarchist environs and burrowed its way into mainstream thinking in blue states like California and New York, where increasingly…
Pope Leo XIV rejected the blessing of homosexual unions last Thursday, and for this the Church ought to be grateful. It surely isn’t easy to contradict the consensus opinion of Western society and to open oneself up to the vicious criticisms of the modern media, especially for a public figure exposed to such global scrutiny…
Editor’s note: in light of yesterday’s news, pictured above, we publish this article from Dr. Kmita addressing the central dogma at stake. In an interesting article entitled “Baptism, salvation, and the necessity of the Church,” Dr. Larry Chapp discusses a challenging issue raised by Pope Benedict XVI in a 2015 interview (originally in Italian) recently…
What was the fear that drove the disciples into the Upper Room on the day Jesus rose from the dead? Was it the Jews, eager to wipe them out just as they had succeeded in getting Christ crucified? Is that what sent them cowering behind closed doors? The account in John’s Gospel clearly says so….
“What are the signs that you would expect to find in a person that would enable you to judge whether or not they are good Catholics?” That is the first question I was asked when I went in to my first oral examination. I answered with uncharacteristic assertiveness, The smiles all around, the heads that…
Above: Pope Francis’s last public appearance on Easter Sunday. In his Super Hanc Petram: The Pope and the Church at a Dramatic Moment in History—a book highly praised by such figures as Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Roberto de Mattei, Eduardo Echeverria, Philip Lawler, and José Antonio Ureta—Fr. Serafino Lanzetta seeks to offer a profound theological analysis…
When my eldest daughter was four, we found a gorgeous children’s book at our local library that retold the story of St. George of Merry England from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. Every day, she would pour over the pictures of the brave knight, wearing a white robe emblazoned with a red cross, locked in…
Ever reliable, Fr. Thomas Reese, S.J., seldom disappoints. This former editor of America magazine, now a featured columnist for the National Catholic Reporter (both lodestars for the Catholic Left) is uncommonly consistent. With steely determination, he has been stretching the Catholic Church into shapes that bear little resemblance to the Church Christ founded. In a…
For the past two years, my students and I have been on the quest for the true West. We have journeyed together on a cultural pilgrimage across the vast literary landscape of Western and Christian Civilization. We have travelled in a time machine that has taken us across almost three thousand years of human history….
Above: the Ancient Custom of Blessing the Fields on Rogation Sunday at Hever, Kent Taken February 1967. One of the major elements of the Church’s Liturgical Year in all its varieties – Roman, Ambrosian, Mozarabic, Lyonnais, Sarum, Braga, Ordinariate, Dominican, Carmelite, Byzantine, West Syriac, East Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Coptic, Ethiopian, Malabarese, and Syro-Malabar – is…
