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It has now been a month since Egyptian courts have ordered the confiscation of St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula, the world’s oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. If enforced, the ruling will lead to the eviction of the Greek Orthodox monks who have lived there since the sixth century. This is not merely an…
A new hymnal promises “the greatest hits” familiar to Catholics who love the traditional Latin Mass and are seeking beauty and meaning that transcends time. Scholar and composer Peter Kwasniewski and his Os Justi Press are offering a new hymnal that is bound to interest Catholics who not only regard tradition as essential, but know…
We must thank God today. Many secret documents in the Vatican will never see the light of day for many years, decades, or even centuries. Think about the following: Almost four years ago now, the regime of New Iconoclasm issued Traditionis Custodes, a document filled with false statements, in order to destroy the work of…
Above: the city of Bakhmut. (Photo/Roman Playshko, Shutterstock). Editor’s note: The author advocates for an end to this war as soon as possible. Recently highly esteemed Dr. John R.T. Lamont wrote an article titled ‘Trump and Russia: Put Not Thy Trust in Presidents.’ His article is highly erudite, well sourced, and rhetorically powerful, and I…
Today is a great feast which was instituted in modern times and enjoyed only a few generations of celebration before it was suppressed with other such feasts (along with the Octave of Corpus Christi) in the reforms of 1955 and 1962. As a part of our June campaign for the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus every…
If you are plugged into the delightfully strange and provocative world of Substack, you may well be aware that a veritable storm of debate has broken out over the “New Romanticism.” Given the fervor with which this revival has boiled, we should ask: What is this all about? Could it be good for the Church?…
The ghost of St. John-Marie-Baptiste Vianney seems trapped in the breezes of Dearborn County, where the old French priest passes through the Indiana skies as an approval of old country ways. Once a humble priest of post-Revolutionary France, he now lingers improbably in this small corner of America—far from his time, farther still from his…
In a little over 50 days in office, it’s become clear that Pope Leo XIV is no “Francis 2.0.” While surely the two men possess many commonalities, Leo is not a carbon-copy of the controversial and divisive Francis. This difference is most stark when it comes to the new pope’s liturgical preferences. He clearly loves…
It is a strange feature of our times that when a priest fulfills his sacred duty it becomes news. Such is the case with Fr. Ian Vane, who rightly refused Holy Communion to British MP Chris Coghlan after Coghlan’s public support for assisted suicide. Such an action by a priest should be common—as common as…
Above: Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, with gushing blood, detail of the Ghent Altarpiece, Jan van Eyck, c. 1432. According to the Traditional Catholic Calendar of 1962 and prior, July 1st is the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ. This feast was instituted for the Universal Church in 1849 by Pope…
