It’s November 22, and it’s the Feast of Saint Cecilia! From Homages to a Heroine (On Saint Cecilia): To name but a few of the musical and poetic works dedicated to her: John Dryden’s poem, “A Song for Saint Cecilia’s … Continue reading
It’s November 22, and it’s the Feast of Saint Cecilia! From Homages to a Heroine (On Saint Cecilia): To name but a few of the musical and poetic works dedicated to her: John Dryden’s poem, “A Song for Saint Cecilia’s … Continue reading
Diane Montagna has done us all a favor by publishing a theological analysis of Mater Populi Fidelis by the Franciscan Mariologist Father Serafino Lanzetta. Below are reproduced the introductory paragraphs followed by a link to the original on Miss Montagna’s Substack. Following … Continue reading
The distinction of “best city to move to” has been awarded to Nashua, New Hampshire. This, of course, is very secular news, but there is a traditional Catholic angle. The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter has a flourishing, TLM-only, personal … Continue reading
In honor of the Month of the Holy Souls, here is a lovely Requeim by Joseph Balthasar Hochreither (1669 – 1731). I found a German-language dissertation online on Hochreither, and present here an AI-translation1 of the abstract of that dissertation, … Continue reading
Many responses to the recent Marian docoment from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith document are coming forth. I refer, of course, to Mater Populi Fidelis, the “Doctrinal Note on Some Marian Titles Regarding Mary’s Cooperation in the … Continue reading
Recorded on March 25, 1998: Fr. Peter Damian Mary Fehlner, FI and Mother Angelica promote the Catholic teaching of Our Lady as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
In my most recent Ad Rem, On the Boy Jesus and the Doctors of the Law, I did something I rarely do. I quoted from the Talmud. Someone on social media took exception to my doing so, and I explained … Continue reading
Michael Haynes, an English Catholic journalist who is part of the Holy See Press Corps, has written what strikes me as a balanced account of the meeting between Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III for One Peter Five. Below … Continue reading
Below is a message from the website of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (“Transalpine Redemptorists”). This community, who were at one point affiliated with the SSPX, made a canonical reconciliation with ecclesiastical officials under the now defunct Pontifical … Continue reading
An online magazine called Compact has published an intelligent and provocative article by Helen Andrews, “The Great Feminization.” In a nutshell, what Andrews accomplishes — complete with supporting statistics and scary anecdotes — is to trace the development of contemporary … Continue reading
The Vatican website has posted the Address of Pope Leo XIV to Participants in the Meeting of Studies on Cardinal Rafael Merry Del Val. I recommend you read it because it is very edifying. There are critics of the post-Vatican … Continue reading
I don’t usually share hate mail, but this the first time we’ve received a Yiddish curse via our contact form on Catholicism.org, and it somehow seems worth noting. This came in the digital mailbag last night: The Jewish Nation will … Continue reading
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