Euthanasia: The Italian Constitutional Court Cancels a Referendum Project

Militant Italians in favor of euthanasia and assisted suicide cleared the first hurdle of their legalization campaign last August by collecting half a million signatures – a figure that later doubled – forcing Parliament to consider the Referendum issue. The highest court of the country met to debate the admissibility of the referendum entitled “Partial […]

Archbishop Gänswein Counterattacks

In the lines that follow, it is not a question of defending or accusing the Pope Emeritus, but, in reporting the words of Archbishop Gänswein, of noting the simultaneity of the attacks made against the figure of Josef Ratzinger and the attacks against Catholic dogma, discipline, and morals by the German Synodal Path movement, a […]

The Life and Legacy of John Henry Newman

St. John Henry Newman St. John Henry Newman Newman’s conversion opened the floodgates for a new tidal wave of converts, all of whom entered the Church in the wake of his counter-cultural act of faith.

What happened to St. Maximilian Kolbe’s beard? The answer may surprise you…..

On Thursday, the Catholic Church in Poland shared a photo commemorating the 81th anniversary of St. Maximilian Kolbe’s arrest by the Nazis. The image, the last one taken of the saint before his final arrest, was notable for what it didn’t show…Kolbe’s signature long beard. By the time the photo was taken, Kolbe had already […]

Is “religious music” suitable for Mass?

Obviously all religious music will occupy itself with words appropriated from scripture or at least in some way grounded in scripture. Whether using the words of a psalm, or composed as a sort of ‘poetic meditation’ on this or that passage in scripture, all religious music, Christian Rock, traditional hymns, modern strophic and non-strophic music […]