Vocation and the Single Life
(This article recently appeared in Catholic World Report and may serve as a good addendum to Father Callam’s exhortation for the Church to canonize more married... Read more.
Some Thoughts on the Alleged Prophecies of Father Michel Rodrigue
(A re-post of this earlier article in July, with a comment at the end that all readers should peruse, and follow the link…the plot doth thickeneth) Father... Read more.
WW II, Euthanasia and a Neo-Dachau
This first day of September marks the 81st anniversary of the beginning of World War II, with Germany’s invasion of Poland, one week after the signing of the... Read more.
Instaurare Omnia in Christo
Saint Pius X (+1914), born Guiseppe Sarto, was a peasant, he was the first such in centuries, the custom being that popes were chosen from the ‘nobility’... Read more.
The Liberal Gong Show
The Gong Show – from which we derive the term ‘a gong show’, sometimes morphed into a more scatological form, which may apply more aptly here –... Read more.
Mandating Masking Madness, and Vaccines While We’re At It
Mask Mania, militaristically mandated, continues, almost unabated, the talisman of the age, the sign of do-gooder-ism – no, not a pro-life t-shirt, or even... Read more.
Ecrasez l’Infame!
Cardinal Zen has it right on Vatican II – it is a light for our times, read rightly, in accord with tradition and the hermeneutic of continuity. I wonder what... Read more.
Constance and the Vatican
The historian Roberto Mattei penned an article recently for LifeSiteNews, in which he argues that if sections of the ecumenical Council of Constance (1414-15) could... Read more.
Banting and Best’s Better Choice
Before we leave this July 27th in the rearview mirror, a brief note to commemorate the discovery of insulin on this day in 1921 by Dr. Frederick Banting, John James... Read more.
Saint Charbel and the Catholic ‘Mosque’
The Muslims know how to pick their days. But, then, so does God. As mentioned a few days ago, for the first time in nearly a century, the ancient church of Hagia... Read more.