Most regular visitors to the SBC website, and very many other Americans, see that the nation is in a sorry state. The increasing and worrying rate of inflation; the hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens flooding the country every month … Continue reading
When the French Revolution broke out, the Italian Peninsula was divided among several rulers. Piedmont and Sardinia were the domain of the ancient House of Savoy, as a Kingdom named after the large island. But Sardinia was not the Savoys’ … Continue reading
A Catholic who adheres to the Faith as it was held doctrinally and practiced liturgically before post-Vatican II “reforms” can only dream of what the world might be like today, even with a Modernist pope in Rome, had the West … Continue reading
I. Disturbing Numbers — A religious and cultural revolution has been underway, for a half century now, in the central and southern parts of the Western Hemisphere. That revolution has just marked a major milestone. Latin America is a region … Continue reading
Together with Austria, Slovenia, and Czechia, what is now Germany made up the bulk of the Holy Roman Empire, which — as we have seen — was for a long time ruled by the Habsburgs. Unlike their hereditary domains, most … Continue reading
The Gospel for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost — this week’s Gospel — is chock-full of dogmatic and mystical theology. It is amazing that some very deep lessons come out of what is essentially a hostile encounter between Our Lord … Continue reading
Have you ever paused on the edge of a life-changing decision, one in which you contemplated an irreversible choice that would separate you forever from everything that you know and love? Maybe you traveled to a new country, knowing you … Continue reading
As we saw in our last instalment, the House of Habsburg carried on the traditions of the Holy Roman Empire into the 20th century, via the relatively new political construction called Austria-Hungary. Shepherded through the last half of the 19th … Continue reading
Although we shall look at each Western nation in turn, it is important to remember that from the very beginning of Christendom － which we may date from Christ’s uniting the Davidic Kingship with the nascent Church on the first … Continue reading
In the previous article about this topic, I showed what various historians said about Pope Pius XII with regard to the Holocaust; here, I want to answer the question of what the pope did specifically, particularly through his public acts … Continue reading
Most of us are already sorely aware that Ven. Pius XII has had his name dragged through the mud because of his apparent silence during the Holocaust during the last Great War. Indeed, the extent of the criticism against the … Continue reading
“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and in legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses … Continue reading
It was not surprising to hear the day after mainstream media proclaimed Joe Biden President-elect that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops officially congratulated him, hailing his declared victory as that of the “second Catholic President” in U.S. history. … Continue reading
When one thinks of the Catholic Church in America, he might be forgiven for thinking that it is mostly an Irish affair with a recent influx of Spanish-speaking immigrants. But in truth, every nation in the world has contributed its … Continue reading
“Legitimism” is a very curious word that pops up from time in history. It has to deal with the questions fought — politically or militarily — in many countries over the past few centuries. Considering that it deals with the … Continue reading
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