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Of McCarrick, Jesuits, and Summorum Pontificum
It was a Saturday afternoon in summer. It was bright and sunny. It was a “Saturday vigil” Mass for some green Sunday or other. I was twelve. The celebrant was the diocesan bishop, Theodore McCarrick. He was doing a parish …
The Family That Prays Together Stays Together … But Why?
The phrase, “The Family That Prays Together, Stays Together” was coined by Venerable Father Patrick Peyton.* And it seems to have been received as a relatively uncontroversial assertion. But I want to ask why this works. Why does the family …
Remembering D-Day
They protected our freedoms; now it is our turn. Yesterday, June 6, 2021, marked 77 years since the D-Day Invasion at Normandy. As memories of that fateful day dim, we must take steps to remember. We have a duty to …
Catholic Music: Revisiting The Unanswered Question
Can there still be an unanswered question in the great competition of metaphysical ideals? It may be that we are currently living in an era where clarity is available amongst the confusion of the questions of the modern and postmodern …
Book Review: Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission, and How We Can Reclaim It
Deadly Indifference: How the Church Lost Her Mission, and How We Can Reclaim It (Amazon; Sophia Press) Eric Sammons Crisis Publications 304 pages $18.95 Paperback; $9.99 eBook “Just shut up and stick to reviewing the book,” I remind myself while …
Memorial Day – Heroes and Prayers
Today is Memorial Day. Today, Americans will honor and remember patriots who lost their lives fighting for freedoms we hold dear. Other nations honor their heroes in a similar way. In my family, we experienced Memorial Day through the eyes …
St. Joan of Arc
590 years ago, on May 30, 1431, a young French saint died at the age of 19, The Maid of Orleans, that is, virgin, as she is called by all and Friedrich Schiller in his homonyms drama of 1801: Joan …
The Pre-55 Pentecost Vigil: Ripe for Restoration
Back in 2019, I had the opportunity to attend for the first time the Pre-55 Holy Triduum, and afterwards published an article here about the experience. This year, in 2021, came my first opportunity to assist at the Pre-55 Pentecost …
Saying “No” to Crippled Religion
As some of you know, I have a personal blog, as it were, on the newsletter platform Substack. It’s where I go to air out my more personal and non-religious musings about the search for meaning, the pursuit of purpose, …
Let’s Clear the Air
The past week has really been a wild ride. Last Tuesday, feeling I desperately needed to get some things off my chest, I published “Against Crippled Religion” at my tiny little Substack page, where I have been doing my more …
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