Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

OSV News Showcase | June 23, 2023

This week there has been much occasion to pray along with the news. OSV News has covered the murder of Ugandan students, anti-Christian sentiment in the Holy Land, violence and the destruction of churches in India, and people lost at sea among other sad topics. But we also have had good news for which to […]

The Rundown! 6.23.23

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Vatican II and the Political Manichees

June being the Month of the Sacred Heart, one cannot help but remember that this image was used in the 18th century by the Counter-Revolutionaries in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in the Vendee, Tyrol, and elsewhere; in the 19th century by the Spanish Carlists, Papal Zouaves, and Latin American Conservatives; and in the […]

Priestly Ignorance of the New Mass

At a reunion of priests on the occasion of an anniversary, there was a discussion of the many aspects of Church life, especially about the suppression of the pre-Paul VI Roman Rite. Only one of the priests had celebrated the Mass of St. Pius V, and some of the padres were surprised at how some […]

Conservatives Don’t Get the Porn Crisis

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