‘Back on the air’ – Fulton Sheen beatification to be announced (The Pillar): “The Holy See is expected to announce in coming weeks a date for the beatification of Archbishop Fulton Sheen, the Emmy-winning American prelate known for catechetical television programs in the 1950s and 1960s.”
Cardinal Roche Defends Traditionis Custodes at Extraordinary Consistory (Diane Montagna’s Substack): “A previously undisclosed text on the liturgy, prepared by Cardinal Arthur Roche and distributed to Cardinals at last week’s Extraordinary Consistory, has now come to light.”
Mamdani’s Commie Housing Official Is a Lunatic (National Review): “Weaver seems to have been designed in a laboratory to work in the Ideological Compliance Department of the East German Kommunale Wohnungsverwaltung, but, as the result of an unfortunate accident with a time machine, ended up overseeing housing policy in the most important city in the United States.”
Cardinal Zen Denounces “Bergoglian Synodality” as “Ironclad Manipulation” at Extraordinary Consistory (The College of Cardinals Report): “In his intervention at the Extraordinary Consistory of Cardinals held at the Vatican on January 7–8, Cardinal Joseph Zen delivered a searing critique of the Synod on Synodality … “
The Qur’an Without Its World (The Abrahamic Metacritique – Substack): “My central proposition is this: the development of Islam can be fruitfully understood as a Marcionism that actually succeeded in severing itself from the Jewish and Christian world from which it sprang.”
A Father Helping to Form Families (Humanum): “The lessons born from the good formation of men in seminary can and should be able to provide fathers and mothers with lessons and aids in raising their children.”
What Binds Us: Papal Infallibility and the Authority of Papal Teaching in Canon Law (Humanum): ” In the past, a papal encyclical may have taken months or even years of study to comprehend its full moral weight. Today, off-the-cuff papal remarks caught on a hot microphone during an informal airplane press gathering can circle the globe in minutes.”
The Upside-Down Consistory (The Sayable – Substack): “There is an interesting parallel in the decision of the Consistory Cardinals to shelve the topic of liturgy, which occurred at the beginning of the Second Vatican Council – when the Council Fathers made the exact opposite choice.”
Ultra-Processed Foods and Industrial Agriculture: What’s a Catholic to Do? (Word on Fire): “My father, who was born almost a hundred years ago in 1926, grew up on a small, hardscrabble family farm in Maryland. He reminisced about naming and becoming fond of pigs that he knew would later become a series of family dinners.”
New Design Plans Revealed for White House Ballroom (Bloomberg):”The architecture firm designing President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom revealed formal details of the project for the first time on Thursday.”
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