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Mary’s Holy Communion and Ours
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Mary’s Holy Communion and Ours

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Mary’s Holy Communion and Ours

Reflections on The Contemplative Riches of the Mass Quotations are from Iota Unum, by Romano Amerio, and Mother of Our Savior and the Interior Life, by Reverend Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. By a Hermitess The Grieving Madonna with the Symbols of Christ’s Passion by Allesandro Allori, Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy At the consummation of a [...]

Food For Though
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Food For Though

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Food For Though

Religious Stays in Italy By Mother Martha The non-profit Association Ospitalità Religiosa Italiana (Italian Religious Hospitality) (www.ospitalitareligiosa.it), headquartered at Via Molina 10 in Varese, a city in Lombardy northwest of Milan, tel. 327-3842841, counts some 4,000 “religious places to stay” in Italy, with a total of some 287,000 beds. These include guesthouses, holiday houses, B&Bs, campsites, [...]

Women in Seminary Formation: The Promise and the Challenge
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Women in Seminary Formation: The Promise and the Challenge

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Women in Seminary Formation: The Promise and the Challenge

The Marian principle in the Church and the value of the feminine gifts By Deborah Savage, Ph.D., St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity Women religious from around the world were in Rome at the 2019 Vatican summit on protection of minors: (from left) Maltese Sister Carmen Sammut, head of the International Union of Superiors General; [...]

God’s Signs
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God’s Signs

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God’s Signs

God's self-revelation through signs, and the unity of Scripture Close-up of the mosaic of Creation in the Duomo of Monreale (just outside of Palermo, Sicily) Biblical scholars have long agreed that there are four ancient sources for the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. They have labeled them J, for the Jahwist, [...]

Holy Smoking In Piazza Mastai
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Holy Smoking In Piazza Mastai

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Holy Smoking In Piazza Mastai

By John Byron Kuhner* The palazzo on Piazza Mastai built by Pius IX as a tobacco processing house. Alexander Stille, in his book The Future of the Past, likened walking through Rome without Latin to watching an opera without knowing the libretto. The music, the art, the beauty are just as much yours without [...]

“His Modesty, His Humility”
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“His Modesty, His Humility”

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“His Modesty, His Humility”

Christocentrism, the revival of the Church, the recognition of the beauty of the Latin Mass — in these ways Benedict XVI has "paved the way for the Church of the future." An interview with Peter Seewald, biographer of Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI By Dr. Jan Bentz Peter Seewald’s monumental new biography of Benedict XVI, which will be [...]

Seven Years Later: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at 93
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Seven Years Later: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at 93

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Seven Years Later: Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at 93

Still working "for the good of the Church and humanity" while living a hidden life — and supporting his successor By William Doino, Jr. The helicopter carrying Pope Benedict XVI flies past St. Peter’s Basilica as it leaves the Vatican for Castel Gandolfo, Italy, February 28, 2013. “I am a simple pilgrim who begins the [...]

“He is there…”
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“He is there…”

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“He is there…”

More than a century ago, Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson foresaw the rise of secular humanism, the contraction of the Catholic Church, and the coming of the Antichrist... By ITV Staff Editor’s Note: The passage below is from the novel Lord of the World, written by the English Catholic convert Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson (the son of the Anglican [...]

A Response to Harvard Scholar’s Proposed Homeschooling Ban
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A Response to Harvard Scholar’s Proposed Homeschooling Ban

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A Response to Harvard Scholar’s Proposed Homeschooling Ban

How does Catholic teaching answer the fears of anti-homeschool crusaders? By William Edmund Fahey Are homeschoolers a danger to society? Homeschooling parents may wryly reply to such an absurd question, “No, but they are a menace to our family.” Yet the question is seriously entertained by lawyers, activists, and politicians. In June of this year, legal [...]

Is CDF Survey a Veiled Attack on Summorum Pontificum?
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Is CDF Survey a Veiled Attack on Summorum Pontificum?

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Is CDF Survey a Veiled Attack on Summorum Pontificum?

It may be impossible to say; but a Traditional Mass defender offers possible scenarios By Peter A. Kwasniewski, Ph.D. A Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage in 2019 draws near St. Peter’s A letter dated March 7, 2020, sent from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to every bishop in the world requested their cooperation [...]

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