Essay
“Ours are not miracles of evidence, but of power and influence”
Once more, the Church presents us with another of Our Lord’s miracles (see Mk 7:31-37), belief in which has fallen on hard times – actually [...]
“Ours are not miracles of evidence, but of power and influence”
Essay
Once more, the Church presents us with another of Our Lord’s miracles (see Mk 7:31-37), belief in which has fallen on hard times – actually for more than a century, truth be told. Some of [...]
A Certain Disease of the Law
Essay
Witness of truth In the matter of George Pell v. The Queen, “Justice Maxwell and I accepted the prosecution’s submission that the complainant was a compelling witness, was clearly not a liar, was not a [...]
Features
Falsely, Matilda
Was it mere coincidence, or perhaps Providence, that Catholics around the world read Psalm 94 at Midday Prayer on August 21, hours after an appellate panel of three judges announced a 2-1 decision rejecting Cardinal [...]
Features
Married priesthood, celibacy, and the Amazon Synod: An Eastern Catholic priest’s perspective
I am an Eastern Rite Catholic priest of the Byzantine Rite of the Ruthenian jurisdiction. While I myself am a celibate priest, I come from a long line of married Byzantine Catholic priests on both [...]
Features
Cardinal George Pell loses appeal of sex abuse conviction
Melbourne, Australia, Aug 20, 2019 / 06:31 pm (CNA).- The conviction of Cardinal George Pell has been upheld by the Court of Appeals in Victoria. After an appellate panel announced its decision at a court [...]
Essay
Amazonia: Upstart triads versus the Triune Oneness?
The Trinitarian Oneness is one thing, while a pre-Christian or post-Christian Triad is quite another. On this point, the Instrumentum laboris for the Amazonia Synod has muddied the waters. Here’s the triad parsed from the [...]
Essay
The Martyrs of August
Editor’s note: This following homily was preached by the Reverend Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., at the Church of the Holy Innocents in New York City on July 9, 2019. Some months, like August, [...]
Books
A Novitiate for Eternity
Death generally makes for unsettling reading. Unless, of course, we’re talking about true crime fanatics or mystery lovers. Those people can’t get enough of it. But death, especially our own—The Big One, the thing none [...]
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Liberalism tells us everyone should be able to do, be, and get whatever he wants, as much and as equally as possible. People believe that represents a new and higher stage in political and moral [...] -
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“At any given moment,” wrote the author, translator, and publisher Frank Sheed in The Church and I (1974), “one or other special problem looms to complicate things for the Church, looms and fades. But throughout [...] -
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SOL:
Who is demanding that all priests must be married? I do not deny that monoastics or other celibates have historically…
Christopher Hallam:
Thanks Gerald. I have no great insights into the legal process to offer that would convince anyone of the Cardinals…
Mack:
"...all male teachers..." Really? What are your sources? Name names. And what are they saying about YOU?
