Anti-Semitism is on the rise in France with reported hate crimes against Jews having doubled over the last year. If you follow the news from the Continent, you might think that increased Anti-Semitism has something […]
In “Sing to the Lord, All the Earth”, a surprising instruction sent to priests, deacons, and parish leaders this past Tuesday, Bishop John F. Doerfler laid out a series of mandates intended to implement wide-ranging sacred music […]
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Fatima apparitions. In spring 1916, the Angel of Peace appeared to three small children—Lucia Dos Santos, nine, and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, […]
For many years now, during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (from January 18, the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, until January 25, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul), an […]
One my favorite books of 2015 was a new and exceptional biography of Russell Kirk, a man of letters whose many writings helped me understand, rethink, and contemplate a host of topics when I was […]
The modern catnip that only what we can measure is real reduces man to just another evolved organism, with human lives having no more permanent (transcendent) value than other organisms. As just another smarter organism, […]
Looking back on his time in World War I—something he hated to discuss—J.R.R. Tolkien revealed that he had written some of the first parts of his massive legendarium under less-than-ideal circumstances. He had conceived The […]
Another bishop on the minds of Chinese Catholics is James Su Zhimin, known for his piety and deep love for the Church, who was arrested in 1986 as a “counterrevolutionary.” Bishop Su was labelled as […]
UPDATED (Jan. 28, 2016): Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson has released a statement, via video, in response to criticisms of her handling of the indictments against David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt. She said, in part: “The […]
State-sponsored cruelty has been a staple of the human condition for millennia. But has there ever been a more wicked policy, with more disastrous social consequences, than the “one-child policy” China began to implement in […]
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