It’s the most dreaded time of year again for Americans: tax season. At the end of January, we sent out year-end statements to our donors via email if they’re claiming deductions. Printed copies are on their way out via snail mail for those who did not provide an email address. If you did not receive a…
And seeing the multitudes, he had compassion on them: because they were distressed, and lying like sheep that have no shepherd. – Mt 9:36 In an interview last month with Asia Times, Pope Francis opined at length about China. China, where Communist policies have ended the lives of roughly 100 million men, women, and children, and where a…
The latest papal video is out. Hot on the heels of last month’s paean to religious indifferentism, we get another blast of immanentism from the Vatican, which has apparently rebranded itself as a non-denominational ecology and social-justice driven NGO. Yes. The Church teaches stewardship of creation. You’ll get no dispute from me. But it also…
In my life, I have often encountered people who say something like the following to Catholics who love the traditional liturgy—or, for that matter, who wish to see the modern liturgy celebrated in a manner manifestly in continuity with its predecessor: “You’re making too much of incidental things. No matter what form or style, it’s…
“The talk might turn in any direction,” chronicled Warnie Lewis, “[always featuring] the cut and parry of prolonged, fierce, masculine argument and “the rigour of the game.” Later Warnie would chronicle that Out would come a manuscript, and we would settle down to sit in judgment upon it – real unbiased judgement, too, since we…
It’s election season in America again. And since January 22nd, 1973, U.S. conservative voters have had their political autonomy held hostage by a single court decision. Roe v. Wade, by the very gravity of the issue it decided, forever changed the American political landscape, forcing conscientious pro-life voters to focus on this issue to the virtual exclusion…
In a recent article in Homiletic & Pastoral Review, some odd questions are raised about the use of liturgical Latin: Is it possible that the Traditional Latin Mass, though beautiful sounding Latin, merely makes one feel good, but lacks the intent necessary for the words to be properly labeled as communication of love of God? Or do…
Today, Rorate Caeli published an absolutely essential interview with His Excellency, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan. They have graciously given permission to other Catholic outlets to re-publish it in full, which we are doing here today. In this interview, Bishop Schneider answers questions about the crisis in the Church, the potential for schism and the quasi-heretical nature…
Embed from Getty Images Cardinal Zen, the 84-year-old Catholic prelate who has long symbolized the struggle between the authentic and state-sanctioned versions of Catholicism in Communist China, has been in the news twice in the past month. This week, he offered a TLM in Cebu City, Philippines: A Traditional Latin Mass offered by retired Hong Kong…
Yesterday, Pope Francis addressed the Italian Committee on Bioethics, saying that they should take up the challenge of countering today’s “throwaway culture” which “takes on many forms, including treating human embryos as disposable material, as well as sick and elderly people approaching the end”. The Pope also asked them to harmonise standards and norms in the…
There have been any number of stories about the groups who, having attended this year’s March for Life, got stuck going home on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The most popular story concerns an altar made out of snow, upon which Mass was celebrated, right there, on the side of the highway. But the one I found…
