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As we approach the end of the liturgical year, an odd thing happens in the Church’s traditional calendar for the Vetus Ordo. The Sundays left over after Epiphany are finally dusted off, “resumed”, and prayed until the liturgical year is concluded. This is because of the vagaries of the Moon and shifting date of Easter and, therefore,…
Editor’s note: what follows is the official English text from His Eminence. Original address delivered in Italian here: Presentation of “Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith” Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments Rome, Thursday, 26 October 2023 Firstly, I would like to thank…
Carla told her grandmother she had found a place to stay for the summer while she interned at Ernst and Young in Northern Virginia. Her grandmother asked who she was staying with, pointing out the host family was either “very generous or very creepy.” Carla said, “It’s the Ruse family.” Carla’s grandmother said, “Is it…
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…
