“Satanic priest becomes canonized saint” sounds like a headline from a trashy tabloid, but on October 19, 2025, it will be true. Since his beatification in 1980, the story of Bartolo Longo’s life has both […]
Why are there so many statues of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux in Catholic churches? Obviously, crucifixes and other representations of Jesus Christ are the focus of attention in any Catholic church. It also makes sense […]
Western civilization, Islam, and secular elites formed the triangle that I began to develop in the first installment of this alarum. My thesis is that this precious thing, Western civilization, to which we all owe […]
The day before his elevation to the Sacred College of Cardinals was announced, Archbishop Francis George of Chicago, delivering an unprepared homily at a Saturday evening Mass, threw down a challenge to “liberal Catholicism.” He called it […]
“…the Church, in her teaching, life and worship, perpetuates and hands on to all generations all that she herself is, all that she believes.” — Dei Verbum, 8 In 1993, from August 10 to 15, World Youth […]
Militia est vita nostra declared Job (at least in the Vulgate version of the Bible): “Our life is a constant battle.” In a similar vein, St. Augustine declared that the need for the virtue of […]
“Behold the wood of the Cross, on which hung the salvation of the World.” Relics of Our Lord’s Passion have always been dear to his followers. The True Cross, the actual wood on which Jesus […]
The First Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops (1967), held two years after Pope St. Paul VI instituted the Synod of Bishops, was a synod of consequence that still influences the Church today through the canonical legislation, […]
I was saddened to learn of James Hitchcock’s death on July 14th at the age of 87. Like most people, my first encounter with the distinguished historian and author came through one of his books. […]
Of all nineteenth-century Catholic thinkers, John Henry Newman is the one who continues both to shape intellectual currents in modern Catholicism and offer an interesting dialogue partner to Protestants such as myself. While his patristic […]
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