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His has been a severe-grace, but also a beneficent-grace By Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Capuchin Mass opening the third Worldwide Priests' Retreat at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, a gathering promoted by the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Recently, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó and others have expressed their concerns about the present state of the [...]
The Council’s time in history has passed By Anthony Esolen The Council of Trent (1588) by Pasquale Cati Da Iesi Thomas Aquinas(between Aristotle and Plato) Defeats Heresy, byBenozzo Gozzoli John Henry Newman, a convert from Anglicanism, elevated to the cardinalate in 1879 by Leo XIII, proclaimed a saint in 2019 by [...]
Or was it "a truth only half-received?" By John Cavadini, Ph. D. Ecumenism during the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 In a statement dated June 20, 2020, Archbishop Viganò reduces the Second Vatican Council to a seedbed of contemporary error animated by the spirit of “Masonry.” I sympathize with his frustrations with regard [...]
The Angelus by Jean-François Millet, 1858-1859, Museum d'Orsay in Paris By Michael Severance The COVID crisis is more than a health catastrophe. It is also a human wealth calamity in the making. Rash management of the ongoing pandemic by elected and unelected authorities has created an economic emergency across nations and on many levels. [...]
Distribution of supplies during the coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh "Universal destination of goods" is always the underlying imperative By Thomas Storck In her long existence, the Catholic Church has confronted not only hostile empires, barbarians, and dictators, but also the diseases and plagues afflicting mankind. And in both her doctrine and her praxis we [...]
by Robert Moynihan The human body is a temple. It is the dwelling place of the Holy Spirit, given to us by God. We must treat the body with the same respect with which we treat a religious building, dedicated to God: with reverence and piety “Or do you not know that your body is a [...]
Stephen Wong and his daughter, Amanda, participate in an online Mass at their home March 8, 2020, after the Diocese of Hong Kong temporarily suspended public Masses in churches, following the COVID-19 outbreak. (CNS photo/Tyrone Siu, Reuters) "During this dark time, I have learned to trust God without any doubts" By Theresa Li 2020 [...]
Might the pandemic spell the end of the hegemony of globalism and of the suppression of Europe's Christian roots? By Giuseppe Rusconi One of the many disturbing gargoyles that look down from the Cathedral of Notre Dame on the city of Paris, France. The crisis — due to the spread of the coronavirus — [...]
Reflections by a Member of the American Catholic Medical Association, part 2 By Thomas W. McGovern, M.D. In Part 1, Dr. McGovern discussed the first two “pillars” of Catholic Social Teaching: (1) respect for human life and (2) seeking the common good. This month he discusses the last two ”pillars”: (3) solidarity and (4) subsidiarity. As [...]
“Majestic Hill”: William and Ruth Moynihan walking together on Horsebarn Hill in Storrs, Connecticut, in 2016. William was 89 and Ruth was 82. “When my children were little I used to bring them here to look up at the stars,” Ruth said. Bill said he and his wife had been taking walks around the hill [...]
