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On May 8, as I was cutting a client’s hair, my phone started blowing up. I took a quick moment to check what was happening and saw the words HABEMUS PAPAM! I felt my emotions well up, which surprised me as I’d been paying little attention to the conclave to avoid getting wrapped up in…
Above: Quirinal Palace circa 1860. The pope’s residence as the head of state of the Papal States. Throughout the history of the Church, there have been numerous occasions when the faithful perceived they were living through the “worst moment” or even the precursors to the end of times, due to social unrest, the moral corruption…
From the Roman office. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May the Gospel’s holy lection Be our safety and protection. ℟. Amen. Reading 1 Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke Luke 5:17-26 At that time, it came to pass on a certain day, as Jesus sat and taught, that there were Pharisees, and…
Modesty is one of the lost virtues of our fallen world. As summer approaches, so begins the real test of the custody of the eyes. But the deeper issue of modesty isn’t primarily about what women wear. It begins and ends with fathers. After speaking last year in New York City to the Goretti Group…
Two notable events have taken place since Pope Leo XIV ascended the Throne of Saint Peter: Bishop Michael Martin of Charlotte angered pretty much every traditionally-minded Catholic in the Anglo-sphere, and 20,000 pilgrims, mostly young, marched the Chartres and attended an internationally televised/streamed Latin Mass said by Bishop Athanasius Schneider. Bishop Martin’s actions became an……
From the Roman feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May the Gospel’s holy lection Be our safety and protection. ℟. Amen. Reading 1 Continuation of the Holy Gospel according to Luke Luke 9:1-6 At that time: Jesus called His twelve disciples together, and gave them power and authority over all devils, and to cure…
This year marks the 800th anniversary of the definitive composition of the Canticle of Brother Sun, also known as the Canticle of the Creatures or Laudes Creaturarum, by St. Francis of Assisi († 1226). This remarkable work, one of the first texts found in the anthologies when one studies Italian literature, is distinguished by its…
What is freedom for? And why is it so important that we be allowed to exercise it? Do the choices we make really matter? Ask an atheist and he’ll tell you it’s for actualizing the self in a world without God. Of course, in a godless world why would freedom matter at all? What difference…
Although even Pope Leo XIV acknowledges that mass immigration is a “huge problem,“ a recent “Pastoral Note to Migrants” issued by Michigan’s Catholic bishops is an embarrassing combination of fallacy, contradiction, doctrinal subversion, begged questions, conflict of interest, and hypocrisy. To start, the letter from the bishops ignores the elephant in the room: the violation…
Of late, there have been several attacks on my writings and on me personally, in the vanguard of which has been the ex-satanist, ex-Catholic, now Eastern Orthodox writer Michael Warren Davis. The attacks are based on my occasional use of the term ‘magic’, for which Davis claims I must be embroiled in the dark occult,…
