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The Kapaun Virtue
19+ hour, 31+ min ago (818+ words) Even in our screen-driven, fast-food comfortable lives, Kapauns can be formed. When Venerable Emil Kapaun's earthly remains were returned home to his native Kansas in 2021, Sgt. 1st Class Herbert Miller, at attention from his wheelchair, extolled him: "You don't have 'em…...
The SSPX's Foundational Error
20+ hour ago (701+ words) While the SSPX (rightly) presents its dispute with the Vatican as one of doctrine, it ignores its own doctrinally problematic elephant in the room. While the Society disobeyed a direct command of the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church, it…...
A Story so Stunning It Would Be a Sin Not to Share It!
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (17+ words) Flannery O'Connor proposes an answer to the why of our addictions, distractions, and need for noise....
Life in Hillary's Village
1+ day, 18+ hour ago (339+ words) Extreme liberal/socialist politics that were once contained in major metropolitans have infiltrated most cities and towns across the US. If we don't push back now, it will soon be too late. Assuming a family does manage to survive and…...
Mary in Islam: Setting the Facts Straight
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (17+ words) The "Mary" of Islam is an erroneous picture of the real and true Virgin Mother of God....
Turn East, Young Man
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (421+ words) Versus populum undermines and obscures what ad orientem communicates, something the late Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) well understood. Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, the great defender of traditional, pre-Vatican II Catholic liturgy, sees things a bit differently. For him, the widespread abandonment…...
Is the True Catholic Church Distinct From the Institutional Church?
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (1231+ words) Any distinction between an "institutional Church" and a "true Catholic Church" is an error with ancient heretical roots, most recently revived by figures like Archbishop Vigan....
Why Being Rather Than Nothingness? Part XV
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (214+ words) Save for Christ alone, our very existence would itself be an unimaginably grim death blow....
In Support of Catholic Superstition
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (34+ words) The Catholic Faith is perfectly rational, but we are not capable of fitting the entirety of it into our heads. Many devotions called superstitious help incarnate the reality of Heaven in our daily lives....
The World Cup and America 250
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (610+ words) What we have seen these past weeks is a veritable love fest between Europeans and Americans and a grand reopening of the European mind about almost all things America. The White House cage fights, the military flyover, and the bald…...