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Above: the Rockefeller Christmas Tree, 1931. I have spent Christmas in many places in my time, and there are many more in which I would like to spend it. Dom Guéranger, in his coverage of the feast in the Liturgical Year, declares that “There are three places on this earth of ours which we should…
At the first stroke of midnight on December 25th, the Church in her Sacred liturgy bursts forth in joyous celebration for the birth of the God-Man, Jesus Christ, who is born of the Virgin Mary. The virgin birth occurs nine months after His conception in Her womb when God united His divinity with our humanity….
Above: the Northern Lights in Iceland. When it comes to depicting Paradise and the state before Adam and Eve committed original sin, the paintings of recent centuries are many times laughable—when they are not simply scandalous. Even the most famous Italian masters seem unable to move beyond dubious nudes, a snake with legs, and some…
I grew up playing what I tell my kids is “real football,” that is, “international football,” i.e. soccer. Most of the world is poor and so soccer is a great sport – the only cost is really a ball – you can make a goal out of anything. However, here in the States, where we…
Authentic conversation in the marketplace of ideas begins with a posture that is increasingly rare: humble attentiveness to facts and logic ordered toward moral truth. Conversation is not merely the exchange of words; nor is it the performance of openness. It requires a willingness to submit one’s claims—especially those bound tightly to identity, grievance, or…
There’s no place like home for the holidays. So sang Perry Como in the popular Christmas hit of 1954, and so sings Perry Como and numerous other singers every year on countless “holiday” channels on the radio throughout the Advent season, right through until the advent of Christmas itself. Home—for many people, Christmas is all…
OnePeterFive Podcast “Quoting” Pope St. Pius X, Pope Leo Comments on the SSPX’s Inspirational Documents from Vatican II 00:00 / 00:06:05 Pope Leo has… Source Read More
When Catholics of earlier generations opened their missals in 1954, they held in their hands not a mere schedule of ceremonies but the living memory of the Church. Each page testified to the slow, organic growth of the Roman Rite through the centuries—a harmony of theology, devotion, and asceticism that sanctified every day of the…
Recently, I had occasion to pull down from the shelves a copy of John Donne’s collected poetry, republished in 2012 by a major press, with a new introduction and notes. I was going to discuss one of the stanzas in Donne’s “La Corona,” a crown-poem, as the last line of each of the seven stanzas…
One by one, as though on a conga line for the Democratic National Committee, our bishops last November recited a scripted Instagram paean to illegal immigration. Moreover, at the end of their recent November meeting, it was reported that they also, by overwhelming majority, huffed and puffed: “We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of peoples.”…
