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Culture Warriors, Rigidity, and the Semantic Games of the Catholic Left

Peruse any number of articles and opinion pieces in any number of more left-leaning Catholic media venues, and soon enough you are likely to read the ipse dixit assertion that certain prelates or lay leaders are culture warriors. Certain bishops, for example, are supposedly culture warriors. Others are implicitly not. Culture warriors probably wear French…

“They’re Priests and Grownups, Daddy. Why Don’t They Know any Better?”

By Matthew Reid In the course of a man’s life there are many changes that occur, some by his own volition, some involuntary, however one of the great changes, perhaps the greatest change, is when a man becomes a father.  The entire concept of who the man is put under a microscope like never before. …

New Episcopal Comments Indicate Summorum Pontificum May Be Overturned

Today, new comments have emerged from three high prelates — including Archbishop Arthur Roche, the new prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship — have added fuel to the speculation that an unwanted change is coming for those Catholics who love the Traditional Latin Mass. Rumors have been swirling for weeks that Pope Francis has…

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The Saints, The Eucharist, and Worthy Reception in a Contentious Era

Holy Communion, after the Incarnation, is the greatest gift that Jesus bestowed upon the faithful and His Mystical Body, the Church. If unity with the Beloved is the fullness and perfection of divine love, then humbly receiving Our Lord in Communion with piety and reverence is the ordinary way to the “ineffable union (that) He…

Watch Ye and Pray: How a Young Adult Group Built a Community in the Midst of a Pandemic

A story of scandal is always a draw for us fallen human creatures. The stench of sin brings a flavor unparalleled to the woeful stories of the broken world, both on national and on personal level. But we humans are drawn more to stories of survival. To stories of beating the odds. To stories that…

Infamous Falsehoods and Distortions: The Catholic Democrat Statement

  Charles Peguy (1873-1914): “It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been committed for fear of not looking sufficiently progressive.” Elsewhere, I recently published a piece pleading for the universal reinstatement of the Traditional Latin Mass.  This plea flies in the face of fears that the usus antiquior will be restricted, or…

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