The Bell of San Remo
Catholics have lost the “public square” over the past 60 years, but Bishop Antonio Suetta in Italy is sounding a wake-up call.
When Does the Orate Fratres Go Away?
The distinct nature of the priesthood derived from Holy Orders is baked into the language of the “Orate Fratres.” Flattening the ordained priesthood into “the common priesthood of the faithful,” only distorts both.
Give Your Kids a Christmas Present: Reading!
Parents used to have to go to extraordinary measures to put their kids ahead in life. Now they can do it by simply giving the gift of reading books, and there is no better time to start!
Dr. Zhivago: A Study in Philosophical Anthropology
Dr. Zhivago is a study in sin taking hold over an entire society, which conversely also makes it the perfect Christmas story.
Chastity as an Issue for Today
While the Synodal church has ignored one of the most devastated teachings of the Church in modernity, Fr. T.G. Morrow’s latest book on chastity reminds us why it needs our focus.
On “World Vasectomy Day,” Ever Ask Why There’s No Male “Pill”?
While the vasectomy is lauded by feminists for men doing their part to keep casual sex culture childless, it’s also a reminder that men won’t subject themselves to a chemical bath for birth control.
A Rich Book for Marriage Preparation
Every marriage preparation program would do well to incorporate the practical marriage advice from the Archduke of Austria, Eduard Habsburg.
When “Welcome” Collides With Caesar: Dilexi Te and the Missing Question
Invoking historical precedents from a different time and legal order to justify mass illegal immigration in the present stretches analogy beyond reason.
Does St. Peter’s Need Porters?
Recently an egregious display of sexual perversion was allowed to desecrate St. Peter’s, which could not have been possible before Paul VI’s abolished the minor orders.
Tim Kaine on the Origin of Rights
The discussion about the origin of “rights” often conflates situational privileges, such as the “right of way,” with universal, God-given, natural rights that exist independent of governments.
Woman Does Not Live on Work Alone
The “worker’s rights” vision of economist and lawmakers fails to account for something more fundamental: the essential work of raising one’s own children.
Summer, Camps, and Childhood
No diagnoses of the woes of modern society would be complete without looking at modern-day parenting.
Sacrifice, Suffrages, and “This Mass Is Offered for….”
Even on Vatican II’s own terms for liturgical participation the contemporary Catholic seems handicapped unless he recovers two notions that have fallen into eclipse: that of the Mass as sacrifice and of suffrages.
Thoughts About the Mass for Care of Creation
Can Pope Leo XIV build bridges from Pope Francis’ arguably liberal mouthpiece encyclicals to something squarely Catholic?
A Saint of and for Our Times
The next round of canonizations includes a layman who stood for marriage in remote Papua New Guinea.
An Often Forgotten Sacramental
The wedding rings of a bride and groom are always a centerpiece of the ceremony and seen as a symbol of the marital bond. But for Catholics, it is much more than that.
The Roman Canon Was Supposed to Go Away
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.
Bodyoids: Frankenstein Slaves Meet Cartesian Technophilia
If “brain death” were death, the “bodyoids” proposed by MIT are the nightmare of the living-dead, come to life.
The Prince Charming Problem
The “soul mate” ideal is ruining marriage as people seek Prince Charming instead of real partners. True love is found in regular, not perfect, people.
