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Ours is the only culture in history that mocks the devil while pretending he doesn’t exist. Every Halloween, we flirt with the infernal, pretending it’s all make-believe—until something evil happens, and then we stand astonished that the line between play and peril has worn so thin. Halloween is, strangely enough, the one night when modern…
Perhaps you’ve wondered what was the most “spectacular” miracle performed by our Lord Jesus Christ during His earthly life. Reading the sacred texts of the Bible sometimes stirs such curious questions in our minds. As for me, I consider His walking on the waters of the Sea of Galilee and the Resurrection of Lazarus to…
Known in some places as Allhallowtide, the Vigil of All Saints, All Saints Day, and All Souls Day form a sort of triduum. While All Saints Day is still a Holy Day of Obligation, the Church’s traditions and customs have enriched all of these three days with unique and time-honored customs that we need to…
The Church of England is much in the news these days, and not least because Sir Keir Starmer, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and de facto (if not de jure) Supreme Governor of the Church of England has appointed a woman to be that body’s ecclesiastical head. This…
With the approach of Halloween, another “Holiday” battle begins. Unlike the annual fracas every December which pits believers in Christ’s birth and cultural traditionalists on the one side against those who believe that the celebration of Jesus’ birth should be submerged in a generic “Holiday Season,” this one sends Christians against Christians. On the one…
Say “marriage preparation” and no small number of Catholics would likely say “a hoop the priest made us jump through” to let us marry in the Church; some would say, “a waste of time.” Many marriage prep programs are talks. Rarely is there any reading; and if there is, it’s usually Fr. Joseph Champlin’s booklet…
It was 1981, and a series of brightly colored TV-show posters hung on the chalkboard—Howdy Doody, Superman, a ventriloquist dummy, and a few others. The third-grade teacher polled the class on the previous night’s homework assignment to find out from their parents which of the given options had been their favorite to watch as a…
There has been a lot of attention recently on the relationship between bishops and priests, and rightfully so. This relationship is critical to a flourishing priesthood, and a flourishing priesthood is critical to a flourishing Church. In my experience, the erosion of this relationship has been a top priority for the evil one. Why? Because…
In 2023, beloved actress Suzanne Somers succumbed to breast cancer. She was best known for her starring roles as Chrissy Snow in Three’s Company and Carol Foster Lambert in Step by Step. She also authored a number of books and was known for advertising the legendary ThighMaster device. This October, her husband, Alan Hamel, announced…
Recently, an excellent article by Mr. Robert Keim, a passionate historian of medieval culture, caught my attention. Entitled “The War between Knights and Snails” and published on his Substack channel Via Mediaevalis,[1] the essay was dedicated to one of the mysterious drawings found in illuminated manuscripts—an image depicting a battle between armored knights and… snails….
