In the Piazza del Gesù in Rome stands the mother church for the Society of Jesus, the Church of the Gesù. Inside one finds artist Pierre Le Gros’ classic marble relief, Religion Overthrowing Heresy and Hatred (pictured above). Long recognized by art historians as an archetypal image of the Church Triumphant, the Web Gallery of…
In Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, the new environmental encyclical by Pope Francis, the Holy Father speaks in part to the need for good stewardship of the earth, as well as the current generations obligation to the next: “The notion of the common good also extends to future generations. The global economic crises…
Stop the ride. I want to get off: A pontifical act published on the Holy See Press Office website today announced the appointment of Hans Joachim Schellnhuber to an academy under the direction of the Holy See: The Holy Father has appointed Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Potsdam and…
This week, my two oldest boys are attending a Catholic camp where they’re learning to serve the TLM, playing games and sports, learning their catechism, and other such worthwhile pursuits. It’s the sort of thing that might have been done in the old days, each morning beginning with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (and…
UPDATE – 6/15/2015: Despite denying an appeal on the video’s removal, YouTube has now restored the original along with the view count it had when it was pulled. No explanation or communication has been offered for the reversal of their previous decision. Truly bizarre behavior. Here’s the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSv4vBcFyvo?rel=0 You may recall the video we posted back…
Over at his blog, Liturgy Guy, 1P5 contributor Brian Williams offers something dug up from before the Asteroid hit that tells us people knew what was coming: The below Manifesto of the Catholic Laity was drafted by English Catholics twenty years before the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium. Dated Pentecost 1943, the…
Ah, Poland. When I was there in 1999, I was struck by the fact that other than in Rome, I have never seen more religious — obvious nuns and priests — out and about on the streets, taking public transit, and just participating in daily life. Krakow is one of my favorite cities in the…
Dr. Jeff Mirus is the Founder and President of CatholicCulture.org, one of the most popular Catholic websites on the Internet. CatholicCulture does a lot of good work for the Church, and we link to their articles frequently to buttress the points made in our own work. Last week, however, Mirus wrote a perplexing article entitled,…
From LiveActionNews: A survey released Sunday by the Associated Press (AP) shows that abortion rates are dropping nationwide: the overall decrease was roughly 12 percent. The survey shows in states with significant pro-life legislation, such as Indiana, Missouri, Ohio and Oklahoma, the drop is closer to 15 percent; however, pro-life states were not alone. The report notes that…
The following reflection on the Feast of Corpus Christi was written by Dom Gaspar Lefebvre O.S.B. for the 1945 Saint Andrew Daily Missal (published by St. Bonaventure Publications). As Dom Lefebvre (17 June 1880 – 16 April 1966) states within his brief meditation, “We should regard the Mass as the centre of all Eucharistic worship,…
If you’ve not read it yet, you should read the essay we published explaining the the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart. Devotions to the Sacred Heart seem to be mostly lost in the post-conciliar Church, but they are nonetheless a source of great comfort and blessing to those individuals and families who practice them. My family…
