Catholic Weekly, Marilyn Rodrigues: Each night I read a bit from the Gospels to my young sons. One thing that strikes me is how Jesus’ preaching was often met with astonishment by people. What came from his mouth was utterly … Continue reading

Catholic Weekly, Marilyn Rodrigues: Each night I read a bit from the Gospels to my young sons. One thing that strikes me is how Jesus’ preaching was often met with astonishment by people. What came from his mouth was utterly … Continue reading
Community in Mission, Msgr Pope: So you think the idea of the “Twelve Steps” is new? Well, if you think you’ve got a new idea, go back and see how the Greeks put it, or in this case how the Medieval … Continue reading
Sad and beautiful. Reminded me of the passing of Brother Hugh. He died around midnight 1979, July 11. The birds were singing. Aleteia, Anna Whiston-Donaldson: I sat at a small table in the back of the bookstore, looking out at the faces … Continue reading
Note that Harrison Butker ended up with Kansas City not Carolina. National Catholic Register, Trent Beattie: Harrison Butker: “Our natural mothers point out things that we miss, and they have a deep concern for us. Mary takes this to a … Continue reading
CNS, Mark Judge: “If you’re there, you have to help me.” Those are the words that poet Sally Read said to an icon of Jesus in 2010. Read, a British poet and atheist, had stopped into a church in Santa … Continue reading
Thanks once more to Mr. Steve Cunningham, of the Sensus Fidelium YouTube channel, for broadcasting to his very large and growing audience another episode of Reconquest. Relevant links for this show appear under the embedded video. To that brief list … Continue reading
Aleteia In 1937, the Soviet communist regime accused Ukrainian Catholic woman Janina Jandulska of directing a “subversive political organization.” The only organization that she was involved in, however, was a Living Rosary prayer group, which she had joined at the … Continue reading
ChurchMilitant: Legal trouble continues for the Catholic teen who stood up to the LGBT agenda in Poland. In August, Polish 15-year-old Jakub Baryła became a Catholic social media sensation when photo and video surfaced showing him blocking an LGBT parade in the … Continue reading
It’s hard to type in a bed with one’s arms up in the air; but I had to comment on this great article by Leonard Kriegel. This man suffered almost all his life from polio which crippled him at the … Continue reading
This is a great essay on the value of suffering and it’s necessity. Return to Order, James Bascom: Few institutions today inspire more contempt among God-fearing Americans than Hollywood. Just the name of “Hollywood” conjures up images of glitzy, degenerate … Continue reading
TFP, John Horvat II: When you hear the term “modest fashion,” you think of clothing linked to religious convictions. The term usually applies to women’s fashions since they were much more affected by the liberalization of the sixties. In America, … Continue reading
Last November, I interviewed Lilly Wilson, of Veils by Lilly, on the subject of head coverings for ladies. The interview, which I think went very well, was broadcast as Reconquest Episode 155. In order to make the information more generally … Continue reading
Catholic Culture, Phil Lawler:Years ago, at an inter-religious conference, I was befriended by a Muslim cleric who, when he learned that I had never met my father-in-law, promised to do his best to bring us together. (He fulfilled that promise, … Continue reading
A few months ago, in response to an article of mine on the Habsburgs, I faced what German-speakers have dubbed an “Online-Lynchmobb,” courtesy of Twitter. The puerile nature of the attacks drove me through the roof! Difference of opinion is … Continue reading
Last night, after a class that Sister Maria Philomena taught, concerned in part with chant notation, Sister Marie Therese and I were discussing the comparative merits of chant notation and modern notation. The conversation segued into a different topic (as … Continue reading
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