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Traditional, orthodox Roman Catholic believers ought to be extremely grateful that American Catholics do not vote on Catholic doctrine, moral teaching, and ecclesiology. Because if they did, and if they got their way, much of the historic Roman Catholic Church would be swept away into the dustbin of history. This conclusion screams from the pages…
As all the world knows, Chicago native Robert Cardinal Prevost, O.S.A. was elected Pope on May 8, 2025, and took the name Leo XIV. For many of us, the cessation of the preceding Pontificate came, tragically, as a relief. The new Pontiff’s taking of a traditional Papal name and appearance in traditional Papal garments was…
Everyone was wondering if the next Pope would take the name Francis II. Now that this has not happened, we are all wondering how Pope Leo will deal with the legacy of his controversial predecessor. Yesterday Pope Leo made an address “to representatives of other churches and ecclesial communities and other religions” who had attended…
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…
