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All Catholics know the Salve Regina, the “Hail, Holy Queen,” the Marian antiphon sung in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Queen of Heaven, who is without doubt and without question the most sung of all the heroes of Christendom. It is, therefore, in the light of her heroism that we should view other…
A few weeks ago on August 25th, in the Clementine Hall, Pope Leo XIV welcomed a delegation of French altar servers, delivering a deeply rich and countercultural address, in contrast to the prevailing ecclesiastical trends. At the heart of his speech was the affirmation of Christ’s uniqueness and necessity for salvation. “Who will come to…
I didn’t stay. On the day of my college graduation, I packed up my car and drove straight through from the University of Missouri to Washington, D.C. I probably stopped for gas. I left behind family and friends and roots. I bounced from D.C. to New York and back again. I returned to Virginia, where…
On Monday, September 8, left-wing feminist website Jezebel published an article: “We Paid Some Etsy Witches to Curse Charlie Kirk.” Two days later, on September 10, Charlie Kirk got shot through the neck in Utah and died. Does this mean that magic actually works? It depends on what you mean by the word “magic.” Jezebel’s…
For months since the feast of the apparition of St. Michael, his election day, Pope Leo has been indirectly addressing the New Iconoclasm, which is one of the non-negotiables of the Trad movement: Pope Leo has acted agianst the New Iconoclasm indirectly by Many of our readers by now have seen multiple videos of his…
Above: Union dead after the Battle of Gettysburg, Gettysburg, PA, 1863. Photo by Alexander Gardner (Library of Congress). The past week or two has been filled with horrible news in America. On August 22, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina, twenty-three year old Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was stabbed to death on the public transit; it…
I remember my Catholic-school class praying for President John Kennedy the day he was shot in 1963. The next year, there were riots in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, just 35-minutes (17 miles) from my home bordering that borough. More riots in Harlem followed. Major uprisings trailed in cities like Watts (Los Angeles) in 1965. Then, in the…
America has long been known as an “experiment” in self-government. Writing to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay in 1790, George Washington reflected on the meaning of the new Constitution: “The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment, for promoting human happiness, by reasonable compact, in civil Society” (emphasis added). Note he said…
Before 1972, preparation for the priesthood involved passing through various “minor orders.” They included porter, lector, acolyte, exorcist, and subdeacon, followed by the major orders of deacon and priest. That year, Pope Paul VI issued the apostolic letter Ministeria Quaedam, abolishing the minor orders. Lector and acolyte were reconstituted as “lay ministries.” Exorcist was recognized…
The reactions began as soon as the shot rang out at Utah Valley University. Many on the Left cruelly celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death with no thought of his wife and two children. On the Right, many were quick to praise him as a martyr for free speech and civil discourse. While this praise is well-intentioned,…
