This year, the Christmas season – whether one charts it from the first decorations going up in the stores before Halloween, and ending on December 26; keeps Advent religiously, beginning Christmas only with Midnight Mass and prolonging through the Twelve Days and in some sense to Candlemas on February 2; or else any combination of…

One may be tempted to believe that paganism is dead and buried in the ruins of Rome and the forests of Germany. However, paganism is, in fact, alive and well in the world today. It has been adapted to modernity, and it has disguised itself under new names and ideas. The mutability of human nature…

If I could only pick one or the other, I’d have to say I’m a Novus Ordo Catholic. It’s the Mass I’ve attended for most of my 65 years. My early childhood preceded the Novus Ordo, so I had nine years in the Latin Mass, but it was mostly prior to the age of reason….