I will guess that we have all heard the explanation of why this Sunday is called Laertare (“Rejoice”) and why we have rose (rosacea) vestments and that the Roman Station is at the Church of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem. St. John Henry Newman wrote of this church: “This Basilica is so called, because Saint…
The extreme adaptability of the reverent Novus Ordo renders it unscale-able.
I dispute the claim that all Catholics of good faith must attend a TLM or risk their salvation.
...for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.
These two books give important insights into the relationship between economics, demography, and values.
In the A.D. era, humility is the route to magnanimity.
Welcome to the second part of Lent. As Pius Parsch puts it in The Church’s Year of Grace, in the first two weeks we put ourselves on guard against attacks by the Prince of this world, the Devil and fallen angels, with the weapon of mortifications. On this Sunday we move from defense against the…
In October of every year, my diocese, the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, conducts a “head count” in order to determine average Mass attendance. The results of the 2024 count were published in the diocesan newspaper, The Arlington Catholic Herald, in the Jan. 30 – Feb. 12, 2025 edition. Out of an estimated 433,000 registered Catholics…
The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.
Quo Vadis by Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz is a masterful fictional retelling of the events surrounding Nero’s fire in Rome.
