While reading David A. Wemhoff’s John Courtney Murray, Time/Life, and the American Proposition, I recently came across mention of a Spanish prelate whose name was already familiar to me, Pedro Crisólogo Cardinal Segura y Sáenz (1880-1957). Here is the mention: … Continue reading
Catholic World Report: Black Catholic communities have been a part of the Church in the Washington, DC area for centuries. But it wasn’t until the height of the Civil War that black Catholics in DC began the process of founding … Continue reading
The Imaginative Conservative, Charles Coulombe: On November 4, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI issued an Apostolic Constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus, in response to “groups of Anglicans” who had petitioned “repeatedly and insistently to be received into full Catholic communion individually as well as … Continue reading
Reading the Liturgical Year for the Feast of Saint Cyril of Alexandria today (February 9), I came across some very timely words I would like to share with our readers. These noble thoughts of the intrepid Dom Prosper Guéranger are a … Continue reading
Catholic journalist, Bree Dail, recently interviewed an expert in “Information Operations” (IO) on propaganda and the strategic use of “fake news.” Daniel P. Gabriel is now employed in the private sector, but was previously an Officer in the CIA, where … Continue reading
We all want to be equal. The trouble is we are not. No matter in which department of life we excel, be it talent, native intelligence, social grace, looks or whatever, we can be quite certain others surpass us. Persons … Continue reading
The Catholic World Report, Filip Mazurczak: On September 12, 1683, the Christian Coalition led by King John III Sobieski defeated the Turks at the gates of Vienna, thus saving Christendom. Venimus, vidimus, Deus vincit, the Polish monarch wrote in a … Continue reading
First Things, James Matthew Wilson: As a student in the fourth grade of Saint Thomas Aquinas School in East Lansing, Michigan, I looked about me and saw a great landscape whose meaning lay in the saints who had moved across … Continue reading
David Alton: I was in Simile today – where ancestors of ISIS cut the throats of up to 3000 men, women and children. No memorial has ever been erected to these Assyrian Christians and the site of their bloody end … Continue reading
Having looked at the tenets and history of our national cultus, we must now examine those who conducted it, its shrines, and its liturgies. We have in these pages examined the role of the President of the United States as … Continue reading
National Interest, Warfare History Network: For the thousands of Allied soldiers who had fought and suffered for so long in the shadow of the abbey of Monte Cassino, Tuesday morning, February 15, 1944, was a time of joy and celebration. … Continue reading
uCatholic, Billy Ryan: Exiled to France after being deposed by a Protestant coup, could James II, the last Catholic King of England, become a saint? “If occasion were, I hope God would give me his grace to suffer death for … Continue reading
New Liturgical Movement, Gregory Dipippo: : In the Extraordinary Form, the Immaculate Conception takes precedence over the Second Sunday of Advent, which is reduced to a commemoration at the Mass of the former. This is a special exception made solely … 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
Catholic Herald Michael Duggan: At my elbow, as I write, is a small tower of books, all volumes of English history, stacked up in order of age. At the top of the pile are the three published most recently: from … Continue reading
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