In Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge, Private Desmond Doss makes this iconic remark: “With the world so set on tearing itself apart, don’t seem like such a bad thing to me to want to put a […]
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 […]
While away recently for a speaking engagement, I sat down to dinner in a parish hall in the time between Mass and my talk. I chatted affably with a couple at our table until the […]
Casey Chalk unintentionally took me back to the 1990s with his recent assertion that, “When it comes to sexual abuse allegations, no other organization is held to the same standard of scrutiny as that of […]
In my senior year of high school, I was taking fourth-year Latin and third-year French; in the latter course, Sister Maria Gemma offered us a proposal: If we completed the whole textbook before semester’s end, […]
In late March 2020, Eric “Smith” 1 was getting his sixth-grade theology class ramped up on Zoom. The plan for the day was to build sufficient student understanding of the ten commandments first, then set […]
Readers are no doubt familiar with this: The USCCB’s Twitter account posted a graphic a few days ago listing seven attitudes we might adopt in participating in the Synod on Synodality. The post was lambasted […]
The Vatican directive aiming to effectively eliminate the widespread celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Mass requires the cooperation of bishops and priests (Pope Francis’ Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes and “Responses to doubts” of […]
Editor’s note: A slightly different version of the following essay/letter was emailed to Rorate Cæli at the end of December 2021. Dear Fr. Wojciech Gołaski, I read your open letter to Pope Francis and to our Order […]
Ambrose was governing Milan in AD 374, when the bishop of that city died and a struggle broke out between the Arian and Nicene factions to secure the succession. At stake was the catholicity of […]
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