“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: “The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my…
At Rorate Caeli, Augustinus has a partial translation and analysis of the Instrumentum Laboris for the coming Synod, with a particular focus on identifying those areas where the Kasper Agenda could take a foothold: No. 115 claims that there is a widespread agreement in favor of dispensing with the “second instance” or the confirming sentence in…
When I got our website hosting bill this month, I was a little surprised. Our current plan will accommodate up to 100,000 visitors a month, but we were charged nearly double the usual amount. When I looked at our stats, I saw why: we had 178,577 people visit 1P5 during the past 30 days. To put that…
There is a very good interview with Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, re-published last Friday an Rorate Caeli by our own Peter Kwasniewski. It’s an old one — from 2001 — but I found that reading it again brought new points to light, and it was very worthwhile. Not least among the considerations she brings forward…
Today at noon, Rome time, the Instrumentum Laboris – the text that will guide the second half of the Synod this October – was released in Italian. Some highlights, courtesy of Whispers in the Loggia: Stacking out at 147 paragraphs – some 20,000 words – the text is arranged around three pillars: the challenges families face,…
In the Gospel reading for the Fourth Sunday After Pentecost, Christ initiates the ministry of the apostles by way of a miracle: And it came to pass, that when the multitudes pressed upon him to hear the word of God, he stood by the lake of Genesareth, and saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen…
In the Piazza del Gesù in Rome stands the mother church for the Society of Jesus, the Church of the Gesù. Inside one finds artist Pierre Le Gros’ classic marble relief, Religion Overthrowing Heresy and Hatred (pictured above). Long recognized by art historians as an archetypal image of the Church Triumphant, the Web Gallery of…
In Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home, the new environmental encyclical by Pope Francis, the Holy Father speaks in part to the need for good stewardship of the earth, as well as the current generations obligation to the next: “The notion of the common good also extends to future generations. The global economic crises…
Over the past few months, I have made several unsuccessful attempts to write new articles on a variety of topics. In one, I attempted to argue how Kasper’s thesis is actually condescending and an attack on the nobility of the human soul. In another, I attempted to analyze the prophecies of Bl. Elena Aiello in…
Stop the ride. I want to get off: A pontifical act published on the Holy See Press Office website today announced the appointment of Hans Joachim Schellnhuber to an academy under the direction of the Holy See: The Holy Father has appointed Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, professor of theoretical physics at the University of Potsdam and…
This week, my two oldest boys are attending a Catholic camp where they’re learning to serve the TLM, playing games and sports, learning their catechism, and other such worthwhile pursuits. It’s the sort of thing that might have been done in the old days, each morning beginning with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (and…
