Steve Skojec writes for OnePeterFive : “There seems to be a new normal where sin has become almost inevitable for most of us … For some reason — which in part due to us, in part due to the wisdom of God — the new normal for our generation seems Read more
George Weigel writes for Catholic World Report – There is something deeply awry in Massimo Faggioli’s understanding of contemporary China and his defense of the Vatican Ostpolitik of the late 1960s and 1970s. The defense of the dubious by the ill-informed can lead to the preposterous – and that is Read more
Rodney Pelletier reports for ChurchMilitant.com — The U.S. Catholic bishops, for the most part, have abandoned the faithful. For decades they have been allowing heresy to flourish in parishes, seminaries and chanceries. They have chased good men away from the seminaries (calling them “rigid”) and have allowed effeminate, worldly men to Read more
Dr Pravin Thevathasan writes — Fr Thomas Reese is a well known member of the liberal faction of the Jesuits. He writes : “A Catholic Republican can vote for Trump even if his policies promote racism or subject immigrants to subhuman living conditions, as long as the voter’s intent is Read more
Remnant Editor Michael Matt writes — On September 14, a Trump-appointed federal judge ruled that Pennsylvania’s Democrat Governor Tom Wolf’s draconian coronavirus measures—which shut down the state, closed businesses and dramatically limited gatherings—were unconstitutional per the 1st and 14th Amendments. The judge’s decision applies to everyone in Pennsylvania and means Read more
Fr John Hunwicke blogs : The Ember Days of the old (Tridentine and Divine Worship Missal) liturgies began life as pagan Roman Harvest Festivals, celebrating the gathering-in of the corn, the wine, and the oil. The Church of Rome christianised them; pointed out in her lections that the Torah refers Read more
Fr John Zuhlsdof blogs : I saw a video recently of a young canonist whom I am pretty sure is a good and solid guy, well-versed. He makes an argument that, yes, a bishop can on his own authority, because of urgent need, override the Church’s universal legislation in Read more
I Steve Skojek writes for OnePeterFive : A few years ago, my wife looked at me, after one of my rants about how bad things were getting in the Church, and asked me a simple question: “If this makes you so miserable, why are you still doing it?” I understood Read more
It seems to be a fact that you have to suffer as much from the Church as for it… ― Flannery O’Connor, “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor” Joseph Sciambra writes for OnePeterFive : At mid-life, I have absolutely no patience or charity for eunuch huckster priests who Read more
Dr Peter Kewasniewski write for Rorate Caeli: In June 2017, I gave a lecture at St. Mary’s in Norwalk, Connecticut, on the intellectual and historical incoherence of the notion of “two (equal) forms” of the Roman Rite. Given the rapid progress that has been made in liturgical discussions over the Read more