Christmas is almost upon us, and then there’s the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God/Feast of the Circumcision of Jesus, followed by Epiphany. Holidays — in the truest sense of the word — abound this time of year, and for most of us, that means a good bit more time away from our computers and…
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Advent in the domestic church is a mystery lying somewhere under our wet-boot-stained carpet, the cookie crumbs, and the fir needles. Here, the coming of Christ is hiding somewhere between the packages outside our door, the voice of Bing Crosby crooning away in our kitchen, and our family Nativity scene donkey that only has one…
LifeSiteNews‘ Lisa Bourne conducted an exclusive interview with Cardinal Raymond Burke in which she asked about the a timeline for the promised formal correction in the absence of a response from Pope Francis on the dubia related to Amoris Laetitia. Burke responded: “The dubia have to have a response because they have to do with the very foundations of…
Austen Ivereigh, a journalist for the Catholic news website Crux, has written a post celebrating Pope Francis’s 80th birthday in which he claims that the Holy Father is “not against” the Enneagram, though he does have reservations about its misuse: “Pope Francis, incidentally, knows the Enneagram well and is not against it. But he is wary…
There is more to Christmas than just Christ’s birth. It serves as the beginning of an epic, and Advent is the prologue whereby we prepare for the first spellbinding chapter. There’s a thread running through Christmas that ties into so many other Christological elements, including Christ as Divine Lover, in concert with the poetry of…
What began as Four Cardinals became Four Cardinals and three bishops. Over the past two weeks, three more Cardinals have added their voices in support of the dubia, the most recent being Cardinal Renato Raffaele Martino, who has joined Cardinals George Pell and Paul Josef Cordes in publicly backing the effort. At The Wanderer, 1P5’s Maike Hickson reports: Yesterday,…
Many Catholic observers were somewhat disappointed when Cardinal Gerhard Müller gave an interview published by the Austrian website kathpress at the beginning of December concerning the papal document Amoris Laetitia and the dubia of the Four Cardinals. For, to all initial appearances, he had essentially declined to comment upon the whole controversial matter. However, further…
It appears that the post-dubia battle is one of turn-based strategy. After the initial request for clarification from the pope, we’ve seen weeks of often vicious retaliation from papal surrogates, with reports surfacing that at least some of the responses are even being directed by Francis himself. And now that, at last, the anti-dubia salvo has subsided,…
‘Tis the season for lots of fundraising emails from your favorite non-profits and publications. Of course, as a donor-supported organization, we’re no different. We’re already almost half way to our monthly goal for December. (THANK YOU, DONORS!!) We just need you to help push us over the top. So here’s the deal: we know it’s…
I’ve been absolutely terrible about podcasting this year. Between travelling (a lot!) to take care of family on the other end of the country, a move that is still in progress, being in temporary accomodations on and off for way too long, etc., finding a quiet space to set up my equipment and record has…
