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This year marks the ten-year anniversary of the martyrdom of Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old French priest who was brutally murdered on July 26, 2016, by two Muslim men inspired by the terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, otherwise known as ISIS or ISIL. During the Prayers of Petition, the two men,…
Yesterday the world was busy in its pleasures, and the very children of God were taking a joyous farewell to mirth: but this morning, all is changed. The solemn announcement, spoken of by the prophet, has been proclaimed in Sion: the solemn fast of Lent, the season of expiation, the approach of the great anniversaries…
I cannot imagine a facial expression more confused than that of my former neighbor, who looked at me with a sense of utter disbelief and incredulity. We were standing merely feet apart as I loaded my family’s personal belongings into a storage container parked in my driveway. “You are moving…where?” he asked, as if almost…
Something big is happening, an earthquake. More than an earthquake, it’s an asteroid slamming to earth. And we might be the dinosaurs, depending on what we do about it. The Epstein Files: a short name referring to a huge phenomenon, and it’s so much bigger than one player. The disclosures mandated by the Epstein Files…
On February 12, a meeting took place between the Superior General of the Fraternity of Saint Pius X, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, and the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Fernández. This meeting was convened because on the previous February 2, Fr. Davide Pagliarani had announced new episcopal ordinations that are…
Join our lay sodality of fasting, the Fellowship of St. Nicholas (English or Español). During Lent, it is easy to focus a great deal on fulfilling your resolutions, but what is the purpose of these resolutions? If we lose sight of their proper end, we risk wasting our time and effort in the spiritual life….
“I have often said,” writes Blaise Pascal in the Pensées—the crowning achievement of his life’s work, left unfinished at his death in 1662—“that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.” Even five minutes spent in solitude, it seems, is more than flesh and…
It is very tempting for me to just write the word “Yes” in answer to the query posed in this article’s title, but perhaps the whole question deserves a little lengthier consideration than that. In early February, Peter Thiel, the German-American billionaire Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur and investor responsible for co-founding PayPal, gave a pair…
It’s difficult to say exactly when I began the turn towards traditional Catholicism—it was, after all, a gradual process spanning several years with many side quests and meanders along the way. It’s easier to think of it in term of milestones rather than a single moment of “conversion.” One of these milestones was definitely around…
When I attended college in the early 1990’s, the state school I attended required every student to take two semesters of “Western Civilization.” This had been a requirement for generations of students, founded on the belief that a comprehensive education must include an understanding—and appreciation—of the enormous contributions of European culture to the world. However,…
