Seeds of Adoration
In our culture nearly all vestiges of adoration of any kind have been removed. So do we even know what we are doing when we say we are adoring?
800-Year-Old Music Honoring St. Anthony of Padua
Highly venerated from the first, many works of art have had St. Anthony as their subject, from plastic garden statues to paintings by El Greco and Raphael. He has also been honored in music.
God Bless Bishop Strickland!
Bishop Joseph Strickland has demonstrated real courage in the public square and has also shown himself to be a man of deep piety and prayer.
Dodger Blues
Baseball is the “national pastime,” the most integrating—and the most integrated—of all professional sports. Now it sees fit to attack members of the nation’s largest religious group.
The Dodger Betrayal
As the daughter of a Dodgers minor-league team owner and the wife of a former Dodgers player, the team is in my blood. Yet as a Catholic I now find myself humiliated by their anti-Catholicism.
Criminals for the Gospel of Life
What does it mean for pro-lifers to be in jail? In this Culture of Death—in the morally upside-down world, jailed pro-lifers have placed themselves on the side of an unwanted, outcast people.
Do We Need a Data-Driven Church?
Celebrity pastor Rick Warren argues for doctrinal and disciplinal innovations based on polling data. Catholics would do well to be suspicious of following his lead.
Is Traditionalist Catholicism a Sect?
Traditionalist Catholicism is much like a sect, sociologically speaking, but the wider Church should learn from that if she wants to survive in the modern world.
Homage to a Culture Warrior
With the death of St. Augustine Press founder Bruce Fingerhut, Christendom lost a great culture warrior.
Mourning the Discovery of Hidden Vice Without Falling Into Prurience
The guilty plea of Fr. James Jackson, FSSP points to the mystery of iniquity, and is a caution to both his most zealous defenders and his strongest critics.
The Flight From Reality
We are anchored to earth, yet we must aim for heaven, orchestrating our lives in a kind of rhythmic movement between these two orders of being.
Pope Francis and the Covid Vaccine
The Covid vaccine was forced upon us based on false data and propagandistic lies. Sadly, one of the people who pushed it was Pope Francis.
Thinking About Catching the new Padre Pio Film? Don’t
The new Padre Pio film isn’t really about Padre Pio, and its neither entertaining, edifying, nor evangelistic.
The Problems with Fidelity Month
Organizers of Fidelity Month say its message is inclusive and that everyone can come along, and this is quite obviously true; even the trannies can come along. But sometimes you must draw lines.
Florida’s Educational Reform: Freedom or Repression?
Until last year, no American politician has had the guts to tackle the plague of wokery in our schools. This has changed—in Florida, of all places, home of Key West, South Beach, and Fort Lauderdale!
The Eucharist Against Americanism
American Catholics must avoid the ever-present temptation to elevate the active virtues over the passive ones.
The Heresy of Divorce for Remarriage
Jesus especially had in mind the conferral of the baptismal priesthood when he removed Moses’ Deuteronomic concession of divorce.
Can the Incorrupt Body of Sister Wilhelmina Save the World?
There’s good reason to think that God is speaking to humanity through the uncorrupted corpse of Sister Wilhelmina.
Justice Means Getting the Invasion We Deserve
A Christ-free compassion leads to open borders, abortion on demand, racial guilt, and trans-madness.