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Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 Lucy was a maiden of Syracuse, the daughter of a noble Christian family. Her mother Eutychia, being afflicted with an issue of blood, went with her to Catania, to pray before the body of the…
Above: Cristero Warriors with Our Lady of Guadalupe. “Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe!” cried Miguel Gomez Loza, the final words of the Cristero leader before fatally shot in the back. In death, just as he had in life, Miguel honored Our Lady, when the last thought on his mind, the last name on his lips…
Editor’s note: this post combines the Roman Office of the Octave of the Immaculate Conception with the American office of the feast. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 From the Dogmatic Bull of Pope Pius IX. The language used in…
Over the past five years, conservative constitutional theory has fractured over two competing visions: the dominant originalism and textualism seen across the federal courts, and the rising common good constitutionalism movement rooted in the classical legal tradition and Catholic natural law teachings. Although the conversations remain mostly esoteric, in recent months… Source Read More
Donald Trump doesn’t want us to believe our own eyes. He wants us to accept that things are getting more affordable, even though we see prices rising all around us. To be fair, he’s not the first president to try to play sleight-of-hand on Americans; every president spends his time in office selling Americans on…
Above: Sydney, Australia, where Malcolm Williamson was born. A century ago, on December 11, 1925, Pope Pius XI († 1939) promulgated the encyclical Quas primas as the crowning act of the Jubilee Year 1925, instituting the solemnity of the Kingship of Christ—Lord of time and history, the Alpha and the Omega, to whom all creation…
“People Will Do Anything”—Dr. Zhivago and the Human Condition Carlo Ponti’s epic classic Dr. Zhivago premiered in the United States sixty years ago this month. For many, it is a love story about a doctor-poet and “his” Lara. It’s more: it’s a study of the soul of man. From the very beginning, the film warns…
Modern Western culture speaks often of inclusion, compassion, and solidarity, yet there is one group it feels remarkably free to shame and ignore: its own sons. Teenage boys and young men in the West have been told for years that they are a problem to be solved rather than a people to be formed. Schools,…
Above: the interior of Basilica di San Lorenzo fuori le mura, built by Pope St. Damasus, before the bombing of 1943. ℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing. Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement. ℟. Amen. Reading 4 Damasus was a Spaniard, a man of eminence and of great learning in…
Above: the Sistine Chapel, where papal conclaves take place. My previous article on Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio elicited several responses, including several very generous ones from some sedevacantists in agreement. Yet, I feel the need to turn to the response of Mr. Jackson of Hiereth in Exile, who wrote a response on his substack claiming…
