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Venezuela recently celebrated with great joy the elevation to the altars of two of her children, the first two to be canonized, Saint José Gregorio Hernández and Saint Carmen Rendiles. Both are examples of the most authentic Christianity and love for the Truth revealed by Jesus Christ. At the canonization ceremony, however, Monsignor Pietro Parolin…
Above: Le Santuario della Beata Vergine del Rosario de Pompei (Italy). One hundred and fifty years ago, on November 13, 1875, the “new” Pompeii was born. On that momentous day, a humble cart—ordinarily used for manure and driven by the carter Angelo Tortora—carried the venerated image of Our Lady of the Rosary into the town…
In 2003, I took part in a cross-country bicycle ride sponsored by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the social-justice arm of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Our goal was to raise awareness about what the USCCB was doing to address the “root causes of poverty” in America. Besides riding our bicycles upward…
In this age of the unrelenting back and forth of social media, where people lob insults and accusations like mortars, it is hard to find genuine charitable rebuttals to another person’s work. This article will endeavor, with charity, to rebut the article “Can Fallen Priests Be Restored to Ministry? Yes—Here’s How” recently penned by Mr….
Above: photo of the dead during the Ten Tragic Days, part of the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920). Brigadier General Manuel Reyes Nava (1887-1927) initially joined the Mexican Revolution (1910-20), in 1912, serving alongside his brother Colonel Gabino Reyes Nava (?-1988), directly under the authority of another brother, Major General Valentin Reyes Nava (1884-1923), who led the…
Paul Kingsnorth, a recent convert from eco-activism and Wicca to Orthodox Christianity, has attracted a wide audience to his work. He has published Against the Machine as the culmination of his writings on his Substack, “The Abbey of Misrule.” His trenchant critiques of modern techno-capitalism and the searching spirit he brings to his stories resonate…
Steve Bannon is a paradox of epic proportions. A former finance titan turned populist prophet, he carries the scent of boardrooms and beer halls in equal measure. He once moved millions on Wall Street; now he moves crowds in Rust Belt towns. To his critics, he’s a grifter, a grand manipulator who cloaks chaos in…
The initial release of my 2023 book The Obscurity of Scripture: Disputing Sola Scriptura and the Protestant Notion of Biblical Perspicuity—which presents a criticism of perspicuity, a practically universally-held doctrine among Protestants that holds that the Bible is clear on salvation or the essentials of the faith—elicited a fair amount of derision from Protestants. “Do…
Try as hard as you might to understand him, still Pope Leo leaves us befuddled. Even giving the benefit of the doubt to his recent statements, Catholics are still left short of clarity. Faithful Catholics fully understand the bounds of papal teaching. Assent of mind and will is only reserved to the highest reaches of…
Having examined the reasons why a Catholic should not feel “obliged”—whether for theological or pragmatic reasons—to support the Zionist cause, we now turn to the other side of the coin: the reasons why a Catholic should not feel morally compelled to support the opposing cause either, namely the Palestinian one. As previously noted, polarization is…
