The Doctrine In incredibly complete fashion, the Catechism treats of the Eucharist, “the source and summit of the Christian life” [1324] in twenty pages! The various names are given for this “sacrament of sacraments” [Eucharist, […]
I really should get it rebound one day, my crumbling copy of The Catholic Tradition of the Law of Nations, originally published in 1935 and compiled by John Eppstein, a British scholar. The book is […]
A prophet with a perilous mission “And the Lord sent Nathan to David” (2 Sam 12:1). The context of Nathan’s mission is ominous. After committing adultery with Bathsheba and, in order to hide that sin, […]
As noted last week, the second major division of the worship section of the Catechism of the Catholic Church is concerned with the seven sacraments, which “give birth and growth (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist), healing (Penance […]
Dostoevsky predicted it already. In his classic novel The Brothers Karamazov, there are three main characters that represent the world we are living in today. There is Ivan, who represents the “postmodernist.” Ivan is today’s […]
We should recall that the original purpose of the Season of Lent was the proximate preparation of catechumens for the reception of the sacraments of initiation (Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist) at the Easter Vigil Liturgy. With […]
A few years ago some old memories came back to me unexpectedly. In the first, I am a child, kneeling beside my mother. A priest in fiddleback vestments is saying Mass at a white marble […]
Editor’s note: Earlier this week, the Catholic bishops of Quebec accepted the province’s imposition of COVID-19 vaccine passports as a requirement to attend religious services, while stating that they continue to petition the government to […]
Archbishop Arthur Roche, prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship, recently sent the world’s bishops instructions regulating local usage of the Traditional Latin Mass. Those instructions were intended to implement Pope Francis’s 2021 motu […]
“The whole world woke up astonished to find itself Arian.” So lamented the fourth-century Church Father St. Jerome on just how fast a Christological heresy originating in Alexandra, Egypt spread within the Church with the […]
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