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It was consoling to see the image of the Roman Pontiff saying Mass for the Carabinieri in their chapel at the Castel Gandolfo Station last Tuesday. I am aware that the lone ad orientem image that has been circulated and talked about is part of a greater collection of photographs that includes a lot of…
Above: Cardinal Pizzaballa prays with Catholic children in Gaza. In the aftermath of the grievous strike on the Holy Family Church compound in Gaza His Beatitude Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, together with His Beatitude Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, entered Gaza this morning as part of an ecclesiastical delegation… Source…
In a culture where every contour of the public life assists in communicating the message of Jesus Christ, the first citizen of the realm will be the Church, she who is both Bride and Body of Christ, the beloved one whom God Himself has chosen and designated to be Mother of all who have been…
On July 19, 2024, the world lost Wolfgang Smith, one of the most important yet underrecognized thinkers of our time. A rare polymath, Smith devoted his life to uniting the rigors of science with the depths of metaphysical and theological wisdom. In an age dominated by materialist reductionism and technological utopianism, Smith stood apart by…
I was recently made aware of an 8-year-old with an addiction to pornography. I will repeat that: an 8-year-old with an addiction to pornography. In fact, I will repeat it again because I worry that we have become so desensitized that this statement will not elicit the shock and horror that it should. Recently, I…
“This Mass is offered for….” How many times do Catholics hear that ritual phrase sometime before or at the start of Mass? It typically announces the intention for the Mass, usually for “the repose of the soul of….” The problem with ritual phrases is that they sometimes become white noise: routine enough to be expected…
In the past, I’ve written a good deal of criticism of the contemporary culture in which I live. I believe such criticism is not only warranted but important and necessary. At the same time, criticism and critique should never be an end point but, rather, a starting point. Let me indulge in one more critique:…
The conflict between nationalism and the Church at the outset of modernity came about because the Church believed society and human nature to be hierarchical. This belief clashed with the (relative) egalitarianism of nationalism. The Church saw society as a hierarchy of communities, from the family upward, with the Church at the top of this…
We’ve all seen the headlines about America becoming a majority non-Christian country someday. Though we are encouraged by recent waves of conversion, we all know people who have lost their faith. We read that “while most Catholics have remained within the religious fold, a significant number have left the Catholic faith: 15 percent of the…
During the month of June 2025, our family continued our journey into the Sacred Heart of our Lord and King. The Saturday after the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a group of twenty family friends gathered in our home chapel for the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart…
