Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

Anniversary of the Restoration at Solesmes

Above: Solesmes Abbey. In its history, the liturgy of the Catholic Church, like all things, has known moments of great development and moments of decline. It is not surprising that in the nineteenth century this decadence was deeply felt, if one thinks of what had weighed on the Church in that century and in the […]

Father Rages After Doctor Asks Son Gender Question

DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) – A father is reinforcing the necessity of parents to be hyper-vigilant concerning who their children can trust.  In the video that recently went viral, a father gives an account of a propagandized doctor visit his two young sons had just endured. “I am literally on fire right now … My nine-year-old son went in first, and the […]

Papal praise for St. Thomas Aquinas for 700th anniversary of canonization (Vatican News)

Pope Francis has appointed Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, as his representative for the celebration of the 700th anniversary of the canonization of St. Thomas Aquinas. In a letter announcing the appointment—written in Latin, a rarity for recent papal messages—the Pontiff said of St. Thomas: “Filled with […]

Should we read ‘signs and times’ through Sister Wilhelmina?

Early on in “Gaudium et Spes,” the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, we read: “the church has always had the duty of scrutinizing the signs of the times and of interpreting them in the light of the Gospel. Thus, in language intelligible to each generation, she can respond to the perennial […]