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May 18, 2012

The Traditional Mass is Not a Spectator Sport

by Steve Skojec

“The Traditional Mass is not a spectator sport.” The statement rings out like a shot in the quiet, muggy, non-descript church. Oscillating fans buzz from various strategic locations. Incense wafts up from the thurible tucked away to the right of…

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May 18, 2012

Does it Get Better? The Lies of Pro-Gay Education

by Dale O'Leary

The outrage over Dan’s Savage’s profanity laced lecture at a conference for high school journalism students has focused on his frontal attack on the Bible. This has diverted attention from Savage’s objective: promoting his “It gets better,” campaign, the purpose…

May 14, 2012

The Harvest is Plentiful But the Laborers Are Few

by Paul Kokoski

On Sunday, Jan. 25, 1959, Pope John XXIII proclaimed that it was time to drag the church out of the Dark Ages and into the modern world. It was time, he said, to open the stained-glass windows and let in…

May 9, 2012

Important Questions for Wendell Berry

by Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.

“For humans to have a responsible relationship to the world, they must imagine their place in it. To have a place, to live and belong in a place, to live from a place without destroying it, we must imagine it.”…

May 9, 2012

Christ the Gentleman

by Rev. George W. Rutler

King Charles II said that a gentleman is one who puts those around him at ease. Even on his deathbed he apologized to the courtiers in attendance: “I am sorry, gentlemen, for being such a time a-dying.” The Society of Friends…

May 4, 2012

Hey, Maureen It’s None of Your Business

by Christian Tappe

To hear the mainstream media tell it, the Vatican has viciously attacked poor, unsuspecting old nuns. Carol Marin’s piece in the Chicago Sun-Times was headlined: “Vatican waging a war on nuns”. Maureen Dowd, in her Sunday column in the New…

May 3, 2012

Monastic Life: A Life Without Choices?

by John Jalsevac

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! And we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly willed Whose insight never has borne fruit in deeds, Whose vague resolves never have been…

May 1, 2012

Until Abortion Ends

by Stephen Herreid

“What’s the secret to comedy? Timing!” My director told me this again and again during rehearsals for a comedic play. It’s true. All comedians know this rule, whether intuitively or because they have the same director as I had. Daniel Tosh…

April 30, 2012

Five Saints to Enrich your Easter Season

by Stephen Beale

Easter Sunday has come and gone, but the liturgical season of Easter is just beginning. The 50 days of Easter, which last until Pentecost, are an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of the resurrection for your faith—much the same…

April 26, 2012

Did Muhammad Exist?

by Robert Spencer

Shadows and Light Did Muhammad exist? It is a question that few have thought to ask, or dared to ask. For most of the fourteen hundred years since the prophet of Islam is thought to have walked the earth, almost…

April 25, 2012

God is in the Details

by Rev. George W. Rutler

Elderly people often think that some of their recollections are unimportant in the grand scheme of things. With the recent Titanic centenary still vivid this season, there are recorded eyewitness accounts of three priests giving general absolution: Juozas Montvila of…

April 18, 2012

Our Allotted Time is the Passing of a Shadow: The Modernist Fallacy

by Brennan Pursell

Diverse commentators, pundits, and cultural critics seem to relish pointing out that Western societies and cultures, including the American, are rapidly sloughing off the remaining trammels and traces of their Christian heritage. These people proclaim that we are living in…

April 16, 2012

Benedict XVI: God’s Revolutionary

by Samuel Gregg

“Revolution” – it’s a word that conjures up images of winter palaces being stormed and the leveling of Bastilles. But if a true revolutionary is someone who regularly turns conventional thinking upside-down, then one of the world’s most prominent status-quo…

April 16, 2012

Killing the Geniuses

by Kevin Roeten

Cafeteria Catholics currently believe a myriad of items. Many believe differently from what the Catechism, the Pope, the Bible, or any known Catholic authoritative source tells them. They believe in items that are convenient to believe in and yet are…

April 13, 2012

The Speed of Change in the Republic of Rights

by Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.

“I grew up in Kansas. When I began my book Render Unto Caesar in 2006, I had in my mind the America I always knew—or thought I knew. But that America, I admit, has been passing for fifty years, and…

April 13, 2012

The Pope’s Visit to Cuba

Marxism is a failure, freedom is important, and the U.S. government’s trade-embargo hurts the Cuban people, Pope Benedict XVI boldly proclaimed during a two-day visit to communist-controlled Cuba late last month. Indeed. Despite some speculation that he may sidestep the…

April 11, 2012

Lawless Christians

by Howard Kainz

We consider that a person is justified by faith apart from works of the law. –Rom. 3:28 We have believed in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because…

April 7, 2012

Easter Sermon of St. John Chrysostom

by St. John Chrysostom

If any man be devout and love God, let him enjoy this fair and radiant triumphal feast. If any man be a wise servant, let him enter rejoicing into the joy of his Lord. If any have labored long in…

April 6, 2012

Answer Me!

by Fr. Rob Johansen

Before I became a priest, or even entered seminary, the Good Friday liturgy was always one of my favorites. After my first experience of the Good Friday service, I rarely missed it. Even in those times when I wasn’t exactly practicing my faith very well, Good Friday seemed to always call me back.

April 5, 2012

Sabbath after Sabbath

by Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.

In the Acts of the Apostles (13:26-30), Paul speaks of his Jewish background. To us Jews did God send forth a “message of salvation.” This announcement was not sent to everyone in the beginning. Why not? We know that, in…

April 4, 2012

Sin and the Decent Chap

by John Jalsevac

A lot of people are mad about the new translation of the Mass. For my part, I have always had a phobia of debates about liturgical arcana, which somehow seem to sap the vitality of my liturgical fervor as fast…

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