Exploring the Thesis of the ‘Ratzinger Code’: Did Pope Benedict Fake His Resignation?
A best-selling book in Italy puts forward the controversial thesis that Pope Benedict XVI did not actually resign the papacy but tricked his powerful opponents in the Vatican to reveal themselves with a fake resignation. HELP US FIGHT THE LIES OF THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA AND SPREAD THE TRUTH AROUND THE WORLD: https://give.lifesitenews.com SHOP YOUR FAVORITE […]
Abortion-vulnerable Hungarian woman takes advantage of life-saving adoption option
Human Life International’s Adoptive Parent Internship program and a life-minded RN gave Baby Zsófi’s mother the support she needed to overcome a secret pregnancy, familial pressure and a risky delivery.Read More
20 Feb – Feast of Sts Francisco and Jacinta of Fatima – We need their intercession now more than ever.
Young Jacinta and Francisco, the seers of Fatima were canonized in 2017. They are, I believe, the youngest canonized non-martyr saints on the calendar. “On the calendar…”. They aren’t on the traditional Roman calendar. However, perhaps there is a way … Read More →
Vatican sponsors youth guide promoting ‘values’ of ‘heretical’ interfaith Abu Dhabi document
A group of students will share the ideas of a document that Bishop Athanasius Schneider warned would ‘suffocate (the Church’s) burning zeal to evangelize all men.’
Majority of Canadians approve of euthanasia but not for mental illness, poll finds
While the survey unfortunately found that 77 percent of Canadians support the state’s MAiD euthanasia program, it also found that only 42 percent want to expand it to allow for the killing of people suffering solely from mental illness.
“The child is not the mere creature of the state” redux
Almost a century ago, in 1925’s Pierce v. Society of Sisters, a dispute from Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the rights of non-public schools to operate and of parents to have them educated where they […]
Preaching the Real Presence
Preaching the Real Presence I recently had occasion to attend Mass at two different local parishes. The church I more frequently visit is a plain, vaguely Romanesque wooden structure built in the nineteenth century. It looks very much like the church I went to as a child and where I received my First Communion and […]
More Than a Sequel
More Than a Sequel Interested in discussing this article in your classroom, parish, reading group, or Commonweal Local Community? Click here for a free discussion guide. The experience of living through a particular time period can, of course, be quite different from a retrospective look back on the same period. The Beatles produced and released […]
Attention and Poetry
Attention and Poetry Truth did not come into the world naked but in symbols and images. There is rebirth, and there is an image of rebirth, and it is by means of this image that one must be reborn. —Gospel of Philip In the old books, the just man is often given the heavenly name […]
Superbowl Jesus
Superbowl Jesus On Sunday a Super Bowl ad titled “Foot Washing” showed people in various configurations, often from disparate racial or social groups, washing one another’s feet. Toward the end of the ad, words flashed across a black screen: “JESUS DIDN’T TEACH HATE. HE WASHED FEET. HE GETS US. ALL OF US.” In the final […]