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Above: modern Nicaea. Today marks the 1700th anniversary of the first Ecumenical Council—the Council of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey), convened in 325. This historic gathering took place just a few years after Constantine’s Edict of Milan in 313, which granted the Church freedom of worship. Summoned by Emperor Constantine on May 20 of that year,…
Perchance, you haven’t noticed. But for the past sixty years or so a pitched battle has been waged in the Church, something close to Jacobin revolution. Of course, its birth was simultaneous with a most prominent event. But even mentioning it would earn immediate censure, so, I will not. (So much for Synodal listening. I…
The speculations about what kind of pope Leo XIV will be range from outrageous scurrility to overenthusiastic embrace. I have read terrible things on the far end of the ultra “conservative” enclaves on the Internet and ridiculous things from the official liberal “Catholic” who seems to be whistling past the cemetery. Not only do some…
Today, almost everyone is worried about the future of their finances. USA Today, on May 5, warned that many grocery items were likely to increase in price because of the Trump administration’s tariffs. Consumers could pay an additional $2,500 to $5,000 for low-cost American vehicles and up to $20,000 for some imported models, CBS reported…
One of the stranger headlines to emerge in the wake of Pope Francis’ death wondered about whether the next pope would reveal the Vatican’s UFO “secrets,” resurfacing the bombshell congressional hearing about UFOs last summer. Since Pope Leo’s election, it has been speculated that he will be the “disclosure pope” about the Vatican’s knowledge of…
I write this shortly before the 4th Sunday of Easter in the Vetus Ordo calendar, which is also the day when our new Pope will celebrate Mass (they call it a “Eucharistic Celebration”) for “the Beginning of the Pontificate of the Bishop of Rome Leo XIV” (18 May 2025). In the older traditional Missal there…
June is now ubiquitously proclaimed “Pride Month,” a season when our secular culture brazenly celebrates sins that cry to Heaven for vengeance. In cities like Cincinnati – historically conservative and Catholic – tens of thousands flock to Pride parades in a blatant public celebration of vice. Last year’s Cincinnati Pride Parade drew an estimated 175,000…
There have been so many dark centuries in the history of Christendom that one hesitates to call any particular century the darkest of all. Some have been as dark as the 20th century, but none have been as deadly. In terms of the sheer body count, the 20th century, with its wars of irreligion and…
I know it is early in the pontificate of Pope Leo XIV, and maybe it would be a bit too hasty of me to claim any miracles have resulted from it, but something seemingly miraculous happened recently during Pope Leo’s audience with the Eastern Catholic leaders. No, I am not speaking of something like levitation…
On May 8, 2025, the world witnessed the beginning of a new chapter in the life of the Catholic Church as former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost took the name Pope Leo XIV to begin the 267th pontificate in the unbroken line of successors to St. Peter. With the eyes of the faithful and the curiosity…
