Some Funereal Thoughts on Liturgy
We have lost in the new liturgy our connection to our past. Many of us need the venerable liturgies, the timeless chants, the changeless gestures, to help us feel the eternal presence of Christ.
America’s High Holy Day
Super Bowl Sunday has become an almost religious event, and it reflects the reality that true religion has been replaced in America. What can we do to bring it back?
I’m Not Attending a Sinful Wedding. What about the Reception?
Is it moral to attend the reception following a sinful wedding? Or does that also support the sin being celebrated?
The Joy of Benign Misanthropy
Now “community” is often treated as virtually essential by Catholics from the most traditionalist to the most modern. But is this hyper-focus on community necessary?
The Silencing of Joe Rogan
The censorship surrounding discussions of COVID-19 is merely a symptom of a deeper malaise and a stance on the pandemic which has long since gone off the rails.
Live Not By Lies and the Croatian Prophet of Totalitarianism
The life of Croatian Jesuit Stjepan Tomislav Poglajen gives us a warning about the troubling direction in which the United States, Europe, and the entire West could move in the 21st century.
The Core of Integralism
Integralism has led to a firestorm of controversy in Catholic intellectual circles, and it has its able and enthusiastic defenders as well as its strident detractors. What is at the core of Integralism?
The Politicization of Ad Orientem
What are Catholics to think when bishops forbid ancient liturgical practices but allow egregious abuses?
The Creed of the Shallow Man
The insufferably self-righteous “We Believe” signs appearing in lawns across America are a smokescreen to prevent the shallow values they attempt to smuggle in from being challenged.
Roger Scruton for Catholics
At the heart of Roger Scruton’s philosophy was a Catholic understanding of the world: we are not alone.
A Painter Quietly Changing the Culture
For sacred Catholic art to survive, it must be more than insipid images, more even than 19th-century realism.
Elio’s Pickle
If restaurants are also public health gatekeepers, can they demand my cholesterol numbers before I can order spaghettini primavera? Have me weigh in before that slice of molten chocolate cake?
The Great Convergence
Current problems in both the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Churches could providentially lead to a healing of the Great Schism.
Let’s Bring Back Gregorian Chant
Since Gregorian chant has not been banned, and since most people actually enjoy dabbling in another language once in a while, we might well inject the germs of beauty into our Masses.
Loudly Defending Freedom
The protesters in Ottawa are fighting against a danger particular to democracies: the tyranny of the majority.
Why Do I Teach?
Teachers are called to urging their students to climb onto those ancestral shoulders and see the distant shore where truth and beauty beckon, the very things that so animated the lives of those who came before us.
Catholic School Rescued at Historic Pennsylvania Parish
Due to the hard work and prayers of a few committed people, a Catholic school not only survived, but it was transformed.
Regional Managers or Successors to the Apostles?
Does Petrine supremacy mean that the pope can take power away from the world’s bishops and give it to a small group of Italian priests known as the Roman Curia?
Follow the Science!
Today, the command to “follow the science” is the perfect tool to speed the centralization of governmental power all in the name of combatting COVID-19.
Why the Blackout on Fetal Tissue Research Among Pro-Lifers?
While pro-lifers rightly march against the evil of abortion, we must not forget those who have been killed in the name of medical science.
