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When it comes to Supreme Court cases, there’s a tendency among conservative Christians to make a mountain out of a molehill. But most of the time, a molehill is just a molehill, and it’s important to treat it as such. One such mountain-seeming molehill is a new case being petitioned before the U.S. Supreme Court…
Several weeks ago, LifeSiteNews kindly published my article titled “Francis Has Given Us Two Keys for Understanding His Pontificate.” My principal goal in that brief article was to caution the voices of those who have seemingly reached the definite conclusion that, due to heresy, the Apostolic See is vacant. Unfortunately, a number of individuals misunderstood…
With the “Gesima”, pre-Lent Sundays we added a layer of context to our contexts: Roman Station churches. Each day of Lent has, by millennial tradition, an assigned church in Rome. On weekdays, people gathered at a nearby “collect” church and then processed singing penitential litanies and hymns to the “stopping” church, or “statio” where the…
In a groundbreaking interview, Bishop Rolando Alvarez attested to the power of prayer which sustained him and gave him hope, during the year he spent in a Nicaraguan jail for criticizing the regime’s abuses of human rights and religious persecution. “I always thought and believed in my freedom,” said Bishop Alvarez, speaking to EWTN last…
I grew up a science fiction nerd. The first movie I ever saw in a theater was the original Star Wars. I loved watching reruns of Star Trek after school each day. (For those wondering my opinion on this important matter, I believe that Star Trek is far better than Star Wars. Of course, the…
What do T.S. Eliot, Charles Williams, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Hugh Ross Williamson have in common? The answer is that they were all commissioned to write plays for the annual Canterbury Festival. T.S. Eliot had written Murder in the Cathedral about the martyrdom of St. Thomas Becket; Charles Williams wrote Thomas Cranmer of Canterbury, about…
In the post-conciliar age, there is often a tendency to look to the times preceding the Second Vatican Council and find attitudes that we can blame the whole crisis on. This is not an attitude unique to those who seek to save the Council from the “Spirit of the Council”; it is also found among…
My wife will often chide me for lagging behind with technological advancements. Our local movie theater did away with humans behind the glass in favor of self-serve kiosks, which, she noted with amusement, threw me off for weeks. Most of the supermarkets and larger retail shops near us have allocated more lines for self-checkout, and…
Recently, Crisis Magazine Editor in Chief Eric Sammons published an article outlining the dire state of the Catholic Church in America. He showed that for every 100 new Catholics, more than 800 people leave the Church. In addition, he proved that it is even worse than the numbers suggest when we do a deep dive…
Today, we celebrate the 550th anniversary of the birth of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most tormented and transformative artist of the Renaissance, whose influence has indelibly shaped Florence, Rome, and the history of art as we know it. Born on March 6, 1475, in Caprese, near Arezzo, in Tuscany, where his father Ludovico served as podestà,…
