I just read a beautiful story about a homeless man who went to Mass every day at the Church of Sant’Anna inside the Vatican walls. His name was Willie Herteleer. He was from Belgium, but lived on the street near … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Lenten Music: Gregorio Allegri’s ‘Miserere’
Below is the full version of the magnificent “Miserere mei, Deus” composed by the Catholic priest and Roman School composer, Father Gregorio Allegri (c. 1582-1652), and here brilliantly performed by the Choir of New College, Oxford. The Miserere is Psalm 50 (51), a … Continue reading
Catholic School Band Withdraws from Parade Dishonoring St. Patrick
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today commended the administrators, teachers, and students of Immaculate Heart of Mary School for withdrawing their float and band from Boston’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade. In December, a minority of the South Boston Allied War Veterans … Continue reading
America’s Shifting Religious Demography
According to the Washington Post, a new study has revealed some dramatic changes in the sociological map of American religiosity. Here are some highlights, taken verbatim from the Post’s article: Last year, for the first time ever, Protestants lost their … Continue reading
Saint Gregory of Narek was a Catholic
This morning, I telephoned an old Armenian Catholic friend to ask him about Saint Gregory of Narek, recently proclaimed Doctor of the Church by Pope Francis. Joe speaks fluent modern Armenian and reads the old classical Armenian literature. He was, for a … Continue reading
The Twenty-One Slain Copts: Martyrs?
The savage infidels who call themselves ISIL have added to their brutal crimes recently by simultaneously beheading twenty-one Egyptian Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya. This grievous crime against defenseless civilians should rouse our just indignation. Further, such a persecution of … Continue reading
Reflections in Anticipation of Easter
Now that Lent has begun I offer a few brief considerations from Our Savior’s passion, death, and burial, that anticipate Easter. First, consider the two disciples on their heavy walk from Jerusalem to Emmaus, a neighboring city. Their hearts are … Continue reading
Lenten Readings and Preparation for Marian Consecration
As we prepare for the beginning of Lent, please let me draw the readers’ attention to some relevant offerings on our web site: Suggested Lenten Penances, Guilt Transformed, Some Lenten Thoughts, Let us Do Penance, and Lenten Transfiguration. Also, for those beginning the … Continue reading
Bishops Condemn Filthy Movie But Why Was Legion of Decency Abandoned
I remember my father going around the neighborhood on his feet asking store owners to at least get pornographic material out of view and, better yet, not to sell it at all. If they agreed to the latter they could … Continue reading
My Wife Killed My Fish
His name was Feriale. She bought the animal for me as a Christmas present. It was a Terrabetta, aqua blue. We called it Feriale because he entered our home on a ferial day. What a beautiful animal it was. I … Continue reading
Cardinal Burke is Right about Altar Girls
The New Emangelization blog recently defended the words of Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke on the detrimental effects of “altar girls” on priestly vocations. His Eminence’s words came in a much discussed interview published on that same blog. To defend the Cardinal, … Continue reading
Popularizing Universal Salvation
Michael Voris on the popularization of the heresies of Hans Urs von Balthasar by Father Robert Barron and Ignatius Press. For more on this subject on our site, click here.
Filial Appeal to Pope Francis on the Future of the Family
Let Pope Francis know you would like him to reaffirm categorically the Catholic teaching that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics cannot receive Holy Communion and that homosexual unions are contrary to Divine and natural law. Please join us in supporting the urgent … Continue reading
Edward Pentin: Cardinal Baldisseri’s ‘Evolution of Dogma’ vs St. Pius X’s Oath Against Modernism
Worth reading: (Edward Pentin) In response to Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri’s comment that “dogma has its own evolution”, a reader on my Register blog aptly quoted Pope St. Pius X’s ‘Oath Against Modernism’. The head of the Synod of Bishops secretariat, … Continue reading
Statement of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy on Marriage
This statement is from the British Province of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (h/t: Rorate Caeli): Marriage in the teaching of the Catholic Church Marriage was instituted by God, not invented by man (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, n.1603). … Continue reading
