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In Illo Tempore: 16th Sunday after Pentecost

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf September 10, 2026

It was pride that brought down Satan and the other apostate angels. It was pride that brought down the human race in our First Parents. Pride turned angels into devils and Paradise into this vale of tears. St. Bernard of Clairvaux called pride “initium omnis peccati … the beginning of every sin” (De gradibus humilitatis…

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf September 10, 2026

T. S. Flanders September 10, 2026

"I have not had the chance to really sit down with a group of people who are advocating for the Tridentine rite."

Robert Lazu Kmita, PhD September 8, 2026

What the templum was for the Romans, the surface on which we watch a film is today.

Matthew Plese September 8, 2026

Thy birth, O Virgin Mother of God, proclaimed joy to the whole world; for from Thee arose the sun of righteousness, Christ our God; who released us from the curse, and gave us blessing; and confounding death, He granted us eternal life. -Greek antiphon chanted at the Magnificat for Vespers II September 8th One of…

Dr. Rudolf Hilfer September 7, 2026

There is no observational or experimental evidence for “dark energy."

Fr. John Zuhlsdorf September 6, 2026

We come now to the 15th Sunday after Pentecost, known in the older Roman reckoning as Quinta post Sancti Laurentii, the fifth Sunday after St. Lawrence. The Romans loved their deacon martyr, whose basilica stood beyond the walls along the Via Tiburtina. In the ancient arrangement, Sundays throughout the year had their station churches, not…