Features
Why priestly morale is in the doldrums
We thought in particular of priests. Our priestly heart wanted to comfort them, to encourage them. With all the priests, we pray: Save us, Lord, [...]
Why priestly morale is in the doldrums
Features
We thought in particular of priests. Our priestly heart wanted to comfort them, to encourage them. With all the priests, we pray: Save us, Lord, we perish! The Lord sleeps while the storm is unleashed. [...]
At the End of Things: The Work of Paul Mariani
Books
Paul Mariani is in the most admirable sense a confessional poet. For more than fifty years, he taught modern poetry at various colleges, including the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and then, Boston College. He authored [...]
Features
Walk for Life West Coast 2020 to be held Saturday, January 25th, in San Francisco
The 16th annual Walk for Life West Coast will be held this Saturday, January 25, in downtown San Francisco. The event coincides with the 47th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s January 22, 1973 Roe [...]
Features
The cautionary tale of the capricious Michael Coren
You might remember the name Michael Coren, the British-born Canadian journalist who used to write for some Catholic publications, including Catholic World Report. I interviewed him a time or two on the Catholic Answers Live [...]
Analysis
SCOTUS to hear challenge to anti-Catholic school funding laws
In oral arguments tomorrow in the case of Espinoza v. Montana, the US Supreme Court will hear a direct challenge to the constitutionality of the latter-19th century’s notoriously anti-Catholic—nowadays anti-religion—“Blaine Amendment,” of which 38 states [...]
Essay
Scruton: An Elegy
To those who knew him, Roger Scruton was a philosopher. Philosophy for him had little to do with that modern, tenured, and professorial guild that trades in logicism and dismisses wisdom as mere “folk psychology.” [...]
Books
“The rubrics are our friends!” A review of Ceremonies Explained for Servers
Students of the Sacred Liturgy, liturgical “practitioners,” and liturgy buffs alike will recall works by Bishop Peter J. Elliott like Ceremonies of the Modern Roman Rite, Liturgical Question Box, and Ceremonies of the Liturgical Year. [...]
Features
In Europe’s least Catholic nation, the Church grows amid financial hardship
With little more than 15,000 registered Catholics in an overall population of 5.5 million, Finland has the lowest Catholic percentage of any European nation. However, recent years have seen the Catholic population rise by 3-4 [...]
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Methods of communication have huge social effects. Before the written word people lived tribally. All communication was word-of-mouth, and social order was personal, local, and traditional. Religion was myth, custom, and folklore. Among the Old [...] -
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“The Word took on our humanity and in exchange human nature was raised to the divine dignity. The second act of the exchange consists in our real and intimate participation in the divine nature of [...] -
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