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Above: Chinese seminarians in 1900. On February 28, 1926—exactly one century ago—Pope Pius XI issued the encyclical Rerum Ecclesiæ, a landmark document that profoundly shaped the Catholic Church’s missionary activity. Its central theme was the vigorous promotion of evangelization among non-Christian peoples—a mission that remains vital to the Church’s identity today. Source Read More
Some historical events leave an indelible mark on the memories of those who lived through them. Every American remembered what they were doing when they heard the news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Everyone remembered the celebrations on VE and VJ Day in 1945, the dates of the Allied victory in Europe and…
News from around the Church and the world… Traditionis custodes continues to rear its ugly head: a Brazilian archbishop has declared that anyone attending a TLM at an unapproved location (and there’s only one approved location in the archdiocese) is automatically excommunicated for “schism.” This is insane and clearly an abuse of power by a…
Above: A Lost Cause: Flight of King James II after the Battle of the Boyne (1888) by Englishman Andrew Carrick Gow. Last month, we looked at the murders of Charles I and Louis XVI, and the many parallels between them. Both were devout believers in their respective varieties of Christianity (although Charles considered himself a…
Editor’s note: we are currently in great need of more English content about Portuguese traditionalism in general and Dr. Plinio in particular for our Trad Godfathers series, including the TFP. Please send all submissions to onepeterfivesubmissions [at] gmail.com. In his First Epistle to the Corinthians, Saint Paul the Apostle shows why God permits the existence…
We are living in a Golden Age of long-form punditry. Of course, this started with the advent of the Internet and blogging, but it has just gotten better and better. Imagine back in the day when newspapers and magazines were the gatekeepers for matters of policy and opinion. An awful lot of very smart people…
For years, most universities have cast themselves as moral sentinels of American life. They were the first to police speech, enforce ideological conformity, and dismiss ideas that challenge the dominant progressive orthodoxy on campus. Institutions that championed Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion frameworks have often treated conservative ideas with open suspicion, if not outright hostility… Source…
In the case of The Song of the Lamb, we receive a concise and bracing – and in these times, refreshingly clear for a high-ranking prelate – summary of the issue of sacred music in the Catholic liturgy. It is a rare book indeed whose intellectual scope is matched with the profundity of a deep…
Last week, 44 Catholic Democrats signed a statement condemning the current enforcement of immigration laws as contrary to Christian teachings. Even though they “believe every nation has the right to regulate its borders and to control immigration,” they also “affirm that people have the right to migrate to sustain their lives and the lives of…
’Tis a pity when a word dies. It is conceived in the womb of a certain culture, and it gestates in that culture until its meaning is set as firmly as the facets of a diamond. Words then become the privileged communication of truth to other men. If reckless men begin assigning different meanings to…
