It all started with a solid homily. To be more specific: Fr. Matthew Mary Bartow walked to the pulpit during a televised Mass on EWTN, and preached a homily critical of the Amazon synod and supportive of a campaign to …
Category: Catholic Life
You Don’t Need to Go Ortho: Every Good Thing They Have Is Already Ours
We’ve been hearing it a lot: “Should I just quit paying attention to the apparent collapse of the Catholic institution and become Orthodox?” I’d like to start with the unequivocal assertion that this is a temptation to the grave sin …
Maria, the Beloved: Contemplating the Virgin’s Holy Name
On September 12, we celebrated the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary. The mysteries and marvels of the sacred name of Maria are so vast an ocean that the field of Mariology will never finish contemplating them, even …
Scripture & Tradition: Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Epistle: Galatians 5:16-24 Gospel: Matthew 6:24-33 Keep, we beseech Thee, O Lord, Thy Church with perpetual peace; and because the frailty of man without Thee cannot but fall, keep us ever by Thy help from all things hurtful, and lead …
Discerning the Priesthood: One Form or Two Forms?
“Red-pilled” Catholic men these days who are thinking seriously about priesthood or religious life are wondering if it makes any sense to enter a Novus Ordo seminary or community. Could God be calling them to be “infiltrators” who usher in …
Not against Flesh and Blood
For we are not contending against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 6:12) Years ago, when I …
Scripture & Tradition: Thirteenth Sunday After Pentecost
Epistle: Galatians 3:16–22 Gospel: Luke 17:11–19 Almighty and everlasting God, grant unto us an increase of faith, hope and charity: and that we may obtain what Thou dost promise, make us love that which Thou dost command. —From the Collect …
Scripture & Tradition: Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 3:4-9 Gospel: Luke 10:23-37 O almighty and merciful God, of whose gift it comes that Thy faithful people do unto Thee worthy and laudable service: grant unto us, we beseech Thee, that we may run without stumbling …
The Pope Who Taught Us How to Repair the World
It was the dawn of the 20th century. The hedonism of the Belle Époque whirled through Europe’s capitals; like Poe’s raven, the precursors of civilizational decay tapped at the windows of the West. The ideologies originating in the Age of …
Mother Knows Best: An Exhortation to Pray the Rosary
In 1917, the Blessed Virgin visited three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal. Just a year earlier, the children were primed for this event by an angel of the Lord on three separate occasions. We often hear atheists and skeptics ridicule …