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Ida Friederike Görres Ida Friederike who?? Ida Friederike Görres was once a well known Catholic author in German-speaking Europe, Britain, and the US. Yet, at her death in 1971, hers was exactly the kind of voice none of the emerging powers wanted to hear; they were busy paving the way for “The Synodal Way” and…
The classic phrase in Spanish for a conversation in which two sides never hear each other is “diálogo de sordos,” which means a discussion in which the parties are deaf to each other. I think that applies very much to the polemics that are swirling around Catholic involvement in the crisis of unrestricted immigration that…
In November of 2007, the video game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare was released. I purchased the game on day one. As soon as I got home, I popped the game into the console and engaged in the entertaining fun of shooting and killing those the game had designated as the enemy. I thoroughly enjoyed…
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….
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…
Back on September 30th, a few days before the new Dubia were released, Cardinal Tucho Fernández gave an interview to LifeSite News about Same-sex blessings which has now been published. But before we get to that, I want to go back to the 2021 document approved by the Holy Father which was meant to put…
Using the image of the parched deer, the sacred author of Psalm 42 illustrated the soul’s longing for the true God, a longing that has grown keener than ever in our current age. All too often, modern men and women erect Towers of Babel and fashion golden calves to replace true worship of the Creator,…
Now that the old paradigm of Adam and Eve no longer fits, woke ideology having smashed it to bits, Adam and Steve are free to enact rites of courtship and marriage just like everyone else. Can approval from Old Mother Church be far behind? Why shouldn’t same-sex couples be extended the same courtesies as now…
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…
A localized conflict becomes violent and soon the whole world is at war. While sadly that sounds like our immediate future, it’s also an apt description of World War I. Due to a number of binding treaties and a tragic under-appreciation of how horrible a modern war could be, a small conflict between the Austro-Hungarian…
