The erudite Mr. Ryan Grant, Latinist and scholar of the works of Saint Robert Bellarmine, was my guest for this Reconquest, which Mr. Steve Cunningham of the Sensus Fidelium YouTube channel has graciously dressed up with graphics and posted online. … Continue reading
Here is the description of the video, as given on Tumblar House’s YouTube channel: What is Father Feeney’s thesis and why was he excommunicated? Includes an additional 25 minutes of discussion on baptism of desire and invincible ignorance.
When we Catholics speak of the different options that are open before us in how to live our lives — priesthood, religious life, married life, single in the world — we commonly, at least nowadays, speak of these as “vocations.” … Continue reading
For I say to you: Amongst those that are born of women, there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist. But he that is the lesser in the kingdom of God, is greater than he (Luke 7:28). Amen … Continue reading
The Mass schedule at Saint Benedict Center is now as follows: Sundays: 8:30 a.m. low Mass, 10:30 a.m. Missa Cantata. Weekdays: 7:30 a.m. low Mass Holy Days of obligation: for days like January 1 and others that are generally a … Continue reading
The Twelve Days of Christmas commemorate the twelve days from Christmas to Epiphany, from the coming of the Jews to Bethlehem in the persons of the shepherds, to the coming of the gentiles to Bethlehem in the persons of the … Continue reading
My interview with Mr. Jonathan Arrington was recorded for Reconquest Episode 108: Is ‘Lead Us Not into Temptation’ a Bad Translation? To learn more about the Veritas Radio Network and the special offer good from now till the Feast of the … Continue reading
Recent postings on social media have made me ponder the subject of hateful overreaction. I speak specifically about the racism that exists in certain narrow “conservative” circles. (I put the word in quotes because I find that many who call … Continue reading
This “Missa Nativitatis Domini” (ZWV 8) by Jan Dismas Zelenka is a lovely baroque Mass setting composed by the Bohemian master we’ve mentioned elsewhere on this site. The video embedded below is of a performance by Musica Florea, conducted by … Continue reading
There will be three Masses for Christmas: The Midnight Mass — This will be a Missa Cantata, and yes, it will begin at twelve midnight, the earliest this Mass may begin in the traditional rite. (This first of the Christmas … Continue reading
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is mourning the death of the former Archbishop of Boston, Bernard, Cardinal Law, who died in Rome shortly after midnight, following a brief hospitalization. Law was 86. Born in Mexico of American parents, … Continue reading
Thank you to all our benefactors for getting Saint Benedict Center through another year! Your kindness and generosity is, as always, very much appreciated. Below Duccio di Buoninsegna’s lovely Nativity painting is my annual Christmas letter, already sent to our … Continue reading
A reader of this site and listener to Reconquest named Erik sent me an email question, the answer to which I think may be of general interest, so I post the correspondence here: Dear Brother Andre Marie, I recently encountered … Continue reading
Dr. Robert Hickson suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized Sunday night. Our long-time friend, conference speaker, and Catholicism.org contributor is in critical care at a hospital in Winchester, Virginia, where he has undergone some reversals since his hospitalization. In … Continue reading
Dear Catholicism.org Readers, Pax Christi. It is the eleventh hour and things look rough. But, with your help, we will scrape by on the Twelfth Night. I’m writing with a problem — and a solution. The problem is that an … Continue reading
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