Was the Parish Made for Man—or Man for the Parish?
There was a very good reason that the Church wanted Catholics to attend their local parish: the care of souls. That same reason is driving many Catholics to escape their parish geography.
There was a very good reason that the Church wanted Catholics to attend their local parish: the care of souls. That same reason is driving many Catholics to escape their parish geography.
Even good cultural leaders today only offer timeless truths, but sadly they refuse to engage in topics that would provide us with timely—and controversial—truths.
Five-hundred years on from the Protestant revolution and Christendom is not just dismantled, but in full apostasy. Can it be revived, and if so, how?
The sacrament of reconciliation is the ‘Clavis David’ in opening up heaven to the repentant sinner, but waiting for the hour of death is like playing a game of Russian Roulette with your soul.
My father and Pope Francis died within months of each other, and I recognized a similarity between these two dads—I had rejected both of them because of the intense pain their imperfections caused me.
Amidst the battered “Veritas” of Harvard, there are a few still heroically walking in the footsteps of their Catholic predecessors.
Traditional Catholicism is not going anywhere, and the more pressure you apply, the more it shines, like a diamond, or better yet, like a sword beaten between hammer and anvil.
It’s easier for a father to stay silent. But we will be judged one day not just by our own sins but by what we permitted or ignored, especially in our homes.
Catholic Bishops too often exploit the emotional aspects of poverty and hunger in order to change the subject from the massive problems associated with mass immigration.
The wisdom that opposes and conquers the world, turns to God and says, “take all my liberty, memory, understanding, and entire will…leaving only Thy love and grace.”
The recent desecration of a German cathedral with a bizarre dance routine involving semi-naked men juggling plucked chickens was all part of a wider modern pattern of treating consecrated ground as just an empty entertainment space rather than a sacred space.
The distorted image of God that many Christians have come to hold amounts to nothing more than a fuzzy “safe-space.”
The persecution of tradition is not a new story, but the latest—and probably final—attacks from the Woodstock-era Bishops have a fresh tyrannical twist.
From Fulton Sheen to Robert Prevost (now Pope Leo XIV), American Catholicism is in its ascendancy.
In a frenzy to make themselves feel relevant, 60’s churchmen did violence to Church language, and with it our understanding. It may be time to revisit the prudence of them having “given up the Ghost.”
Liturgical vandals of the 60’s and 70’s bemoan the resurgence of the Roman Canon (“Eucharistic Prayer I”) in the wake of their brutalist reckovation.
Public expression of the faith is ordered to the evangelical imperative to convert, not just this or that person, but all peoples.
Peterson, who has notoriously stood aloof from formal religion, found out that mere psycho-spirituality couldn’t stand up to committed opposition to God.
There are many hidden saints living amongst us who not only inspire the lives of those who know them, but have quietly confounded seemingly insurmountable evils in the world.
I’ve been critical of Bishop Barron in the past, but he’s still one of our best bishops today.