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The Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God is January 1st each year. The Church specifically places this commemoration on the first day of the calendar year for a reason: our entire year should be given to the Blessed Mother. For too many Catholics, Mary is an afterthought. Devotion to her is too often seen as…
This article is the first of a 10-part series that will explore miracles as proof of the truths of Catholic doctrine. The series cover the following topics: Drawing from both the wisdom of intellectual giants like Monsignor Joseph Fenton, the catechisms, and objective third party scientists, there can be no doubt that God confirms beyond…
Jimmy Carter died at the age of 100 on December 29, after a life that went from Georgia peanut farmer to president of the United States. But it was not so much his presidency that earned Mr. Carter fame as it was his Georgia-peanut-farmer decency. As history has it, Jimmy Carter was a feeble president…
In spite of these clear words, this First Amendment right was violated on December 5, 2023, when Southern Baptist and Christian Zionist Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, pushed House Resolution 894 through Congress on that date. Here is the exact language of the violation in the Resolution: “(3) calls on elected officials and…
Dom Alcuin Reid’s monograph, The Organic Development of the Liturgy (Ignatius Press, 2005), represents a significant contribution to the rediscovery of the liturgical Tradition that had been obscured by the “mutation” following the replacement of the Liturgy of the Ages with the liturgy of Pope Paul VI. A careful reading of this volume, including the…
If you were asked to come up with a quick summary of the Church’s teaching on the sacraments, how long would it take you? Could you boil it all down into a single sentence? Yes, I think you could do it. Quite easily, actually. In fact, it was nicely done five centuries ago at the…
Sometimes a superstar reaches such popularity that he is known simply by his first name. Such status is granted to two superstars of the MAGA movement, Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk. Their popularity is somewhat ironic, however, considering Vivek is the son of Indian immigrants and Elon is himself an immigrant, and the MAGA movement…
In our Epistle reading for this Sunday in the Octave of Christmas we hear from Paul’s Letter to the Galatians 4:1-7. There are two special points to underscore. Let’s see the reading: [Brethren] [T]he heir, as long as he is a child, is no better than a slave, though he is the owner of all…
Above: The Meeting of Joachim and Anne outside the Golden Gate of Jerusalem by Filippino Lippi (1457–1504). They say “good things come to those who wait.” Many of us who have got our “miracle babies” after our infertility journeys know the feeling of totally ecstatic happiness that a baby can bring. Along with that feeling…
It’s 1952, and John Wayne’s latest film, The Quiet Man, is a huge hit at the box office. It is about a stranger who arrives in an Irish village with a secret he does not want to disclose. A year earlier, a little-known Irish author, Malachy G. Carroll, had published The Stranger, a novel about…
