God bless Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who once more lives up to his religious name! (His baptismal name is Anton.) God bless Dr. Taylor Marshall, too. Those who portray the man as an opportunist for “profiting from the crisis in the … Continue reading
It was my pleasure to interview Mr. Ryan Grant, of Mediatrix Press, for my most recent Reconquest. Our topic was, “The Mass is a True Sacrifice,” for which Saint Robert Bellarmine’s On the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass provided … Continue reading
This article deserves an introduction, or at least an explanation. In December of 2016, I authored “Circumcision: An Acceptable Practice?,” which was edition 283 of my fortnightly Ad Rem. Around that time, I also interviewed Dr. David Lang on the same … Continue reading
During the last fortnight, when I should have been thinking about what to put in this Ad Rem, I became bogged down in some academic and administrative matters that zapped my writing time. (Exam week and grading papers among these! … Continue reading
In the post-“Enlightenment” intellectual haze in which we find ourselves, there are two areas of inquiry — one scientific, the other strictly theological — where we especially find man being put in the place of God. One of those subjects … Continue reading
Below is the Preface I wrote for the 2018 Edition of Father Leonard Feeney’s Bread of Life, published by Loreto Publications. Aside from my Preface and the book’s original material, this edition also boasts a Foreword by Mr. Charles Coulombe, … Continue reading
We were made for love, and made by Love, for “God is charity” (1 Jn. 4:8), and “he made us, and not we ourselves” (Ps. 99:3). To love is in our nature as beings possessed of bodies with their passions … Continue reading
Begging the reader’s pardon for being so personal, I begin with an odd confession, one that I hope will be fully justified sociologically and theologically in the lines that follow: I don’t identify as a white man. No, I don’t … Continue reading
The video below is of a talk given by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, whose YouTube channel thus summarizes it: Catholics the world over have been disturbed, scandalized, and galvanized by the Amazon Synod of October 2019. Since a complete theological analysis … 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
When the first Sunday of Advent comes and the new liturgical year begins, the Church once again relives the Mysteries of Christ for a whole year. She also summarizes all of history, from Creation to the end of time. The … Continue reading
One of the more rewarding aspects of being a high-school religion teacher is to be the recipient of good questions, questions that show that the student thinks and cares about the important subject matter he is studying. Some months back, … Continue reading
The note of “catholicity” is that which assures to the true Church a broad diffusion throughout the whole world. That the Catholic Church is historically the only Christian body to possesses this mark is proof of the veracity of her … Continue reading
For decades, there has been an invasion of anti-Logos irrationalism into the Church. Sometimes this irrationalism takes the form of sentimentalism (see Brother Francis’ article, Sentimental Theology), at other times it is existentialism (“existence precedes essence”), or a host of … Continue reading
The following is adapted from my introductory comments at our recent Saint Benedict Center conference. One of the institutions most associated with the Renaissance Papacy was the so-called “Cardinal Nephew,” a man related to the reigning Supreme Pontiff who was … Continue reading
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