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Welcome to the second part of Lent. As Pius Parsch puts it in The Church’s Year of Grace, in the first two weeks we put ourselves on guard against attacks by the Prince of this world, the Devil and fallen angels, with the weapon of mortifications. On this Sunday we move from defense against the…
In October of every year, my diocese, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, conducts a “head count” in order to determine average Mass attendance. The results of the 2024 count were published in the diocesan newspaper, The Arlington Catholic Herald, in the Jan. 30 – Feb. 12, 2025 edition. Out of an estimated 433,000 registered Catholics…
Over the centuries, the English have been something of a curse to the Irish. English rulers, such as Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Oliver Cromwell, have sought to impose their will on the people of Ireland, often through the tyrannical use of terror on a defenseless population. There is, however, one sense in which the…
Above: Castle Hill, New Zealand Led by Gandalf and the famous leader of the dwarves, Thorin Oakenshield, the council held in the little house of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins led those present to one of the most challenging decisions ever made in the world of stories: to set out to confront Smaug, the dragon who…
Editor’s note: this article is occasioned by the recent critique of the Trad movement we published by Fr. Michael Brownson. I have already conceded Fr. Brownson’s primary criticism, as I understand it, using the term “Neo-Jansenism” in this article on the Dubia of Vatican One. I have further responded to Fr. Brownson here and he…
Since before I can remember, I have been obsessed with sports. As a youngster, I did what virtually every Canadian kid does: I played hockey and dreamt of playing in the NHL. That didn’t pan out, but I eventually fell in love with football and rugby. I was what you call a “husky” kid; you…
Zeynep Tufekci is a Princeton professor who writes regular op-eds for The New York Times. Her March 16 column, “We Were Badly Misled by the Event That Changed Our Lives,” generated no small amount of pushback. That was somewhat surprising, considering that just three years ago Tufekci was still being lionized as “consistently ahead of…
Above: Nero’s Torches by Henryk Siemiradzki. Quo Vadis by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz is a masterful fictional retelling of the events surrounding Nero’s fire in Rome, 64 A.D. The fast-paced action depicts pagan parties, the bleak catacombs and prisons, and finally the amphitheater where countless martyrs sacrifice their lives for their Faith. The novel illustrates…
Dear Mr. Flanders, May charity reign. I thank you for publishing my essays on “Traditionalism and its Dangers” as well as for your fair and charitable commentary in response. You are certainly on target with your insight into the different perspectives of a parish priest and a father of a family, but don’t forget that…
It has been more than ten years since a deacon by the name of Ronnie Lastovica was first asked to bring Holy Communion to a woman awaiting execution on Death Row in a Texas prison. Her name was Linda Carty, age fifty-six, who, having spent a dozen years already under sentence of death, was running…
