I knelt right up against the rail of the transept loft, on level with the baldacchino, my back heated by the sun streaming through the rose window with the Sacred Heart. The people pressing close on either side of me …
Category: Catholic Life
The Musician Pope Who Excommunicated Luther
Five hundred years ago, on the night of December 1, 1521, a few days before his forty-sixth birthday, a great pope of the so-called Renaissance died: Leo X, whose original name was Giovanni de’ Medici. The second son of Lorenzo …
The Exorcism of a Satanic Priestess
I was recently reading about the case of a possessed woman, as recounted by Dr. Richard Gallagher. He is a psychiatrist who wrote the book Demonic Foes describing his many years of working alongside exorcists, assisting them from a Catholic …
The Beauty of the Virgin Mary and the History of Art
Art and the Female Principle Other than Our Lord Jesus Christ there has been no more frequent subject in Western figurative art than the Blessed Virgin Mary. If the object of the arts, when rightly ordered, is beauty, then it …
The Battles and Victorious Martyrdom of Blessed Miguel Pro
Father Miguel Pro could have said “No.” His Jesuit superior ordered him back to Mexico for his health. After three unsuccessful stomach operations the superior thought that a return to his homeland would aid in his recovery. It is likely …
I Fear the Worst about Pope Francis
My darling wife Ellen is an editor for the Association of the United States Army, working closely with numerous senior officers, both active and retired, to help prepare their articles for publication. In the wake of President Biden’s recent choice …
Religious Life: Operation Survival
Editor’s note: please support Catholic religious life and donate to the oblates of St. Augustine. Ever since the Apostolic Visitation to the Friars of the Immaculate in 2013, Religious Life for communities allowing members to use liturgical rites secured by …
The “Man Dressed in White” was Originally the Grand Inquisitor
When I heard that traditional Catholic historian Roberto de Mattei had published a four hundred page biography of Pius V I simply couldn’t resist. Saint Pius V:The Legendary Pope Who Excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I, Standardized the Mass, and Defeated the …
Priests: Shed Your Blood Before You Break the Seal! Follow St. Mateo Correa
Recently, the head of France’s Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop de Moulins-Beaufort, said that the Seal of Confession should not take precedence over French law (dealing with sex crimes against children). This scandalous statement was the exact opposite of what he had said earlier. …
When Nuns Are Persecuted: Lessons from the Russian Underground
Those who have been paying attention to the mounting attack on the contemplative religious life and on traditional religious communities (an attack extremely well documented by Hilary White: see this recent article, which also gives links to her past articles) …