Cri de Coeur: I feel like I have become an “undocumented Catholic”
This message from a friend sums up what I believe a great many people are feeling right now. They say I sow schism because I remain faithful to the Faith and customs of my forbears. I feel like I have … Read More →
CHRISTMASCAzT 2021: 29 – Sunday in the Octave of Christmas
One of a series of 5 minute daily podcasts during Advent 2021. We hear about the Six Thrones of Jesus. Dom Gueranger meditates on two things that will last in the Church until the end of time. Fr. John Zuhlsdorf … Read More →
Open Letter to Confused Catholics: Chapter 16
“Neo-Modernism or the Undermining of the Faith” The Revolution, it has been said, expresses “the hatred of all order that has not been established by man, and in which he is not both king and god.” At its origin we find that pride which had already been the cause of Adam’s sin. The revolution withinIn […]
Respect for the Most Holy Eucharist — Part II
Read Part I here. Thanks be to God, most people where I’ve been are generally respectful, but there have been some terrible abuses to the Eucharist reported over the years. For example, it was horrifying to read in The Wanderer some years ago about pastors finding consecrated Hosts stuck beneath the pews like chewing gum […]
Your Sunday Sermon Notes: Sunday in the Octave of Christmas Christmas
Too many people today are without good, strong preaching, to the detriment of all. Share the good stuff. Was there a GOOD point made in the sermon you heard at the Mass for Christmas (jabbed or not!), either live or on … Read More →
When there is a wound, steps must be taken to heal it.
Excerpted from my weekly offering at One Peter Five: […] Priests have the right to say three Masses on Christmas even without the canonical tolerance of them doing so on other days for pastoral reasons. And because the Gospel of … Read More →
‘Universal Vaccination a Moral Imperative’
Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago recently published on the archdiocesan website his article couched as “good news.” But is there really any “good news” for the abortion-tainted jabs that he pushes? He promotes the jab under the ruse of being a moral imperative. His article suffices for just another slick propaganda piece to advance the abortion-tainted vaccines for COVID-19. The article makes […]
Future at risk for historic chapel in Antarctica
Chapel of the Snows, McMurdo Station, Antarctica. / Alan Light via Flickr (CC BY 2.0). Denver Newsroom, Dec 25, 2021 / 15:00 pm (CNA). The coronavirus pandemic has suspended efforts to save the Chapel of the Snows at McMurdo Station, the hub of… […]
Archbishop of Lima says Jesus died as a layman and without offering a sacrifice
Archbishop Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio of Lima, Peru / ACI Prensa Lima, Peru, Dec 26, 2021 / 00:00 am (CNA). Archbishop Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio of Lima, Peru, has yet to clarify remarks he made in a pre-Christmas Mass that contradict the te… […]
On relics and the “lost” feast of St. Stephen, Proto-martyr
We lost the feast of St. Stephen this year because it coincided with a Sunday within the Octave of Christmas, the feast of the Holy Family, December 26. As the Christmas carol informs us: “Good […]