New Catholic writes for Rorate Caeli : Carrara marble is beautiful: the smoothness and intense light of this particular stone made it a favorite of masters in the Italian renaissance. One of the greatest pieces is, of course, Michelangelo Buonarroti’s “Pietà”, in the Vatican Basilica, carefully restored after an attack Read more
Remnant Editor Michael Matt writes : Fauci outs himself as a full bird globalist, papal advisor Jeff Sachs goes full on pro-abort, and Japanese sports fans go robotic. But Trump’s still trailing in the polls, thanks to the Never Trumpers. Kinda done with these sanctimonious virtue-signalers. Aren’t you?
Peter Kwasniewski writes for OnePeterFive — Even with all the good will in the world, Catholics who have decided to quit their Novus Ordo parish in order to attend the Latin Mass elsewhere often dread those meetings with parishioners they used to see near home—especially the cheerleaders for the postconciliar Read more
Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP writes for Rorate Caeli – From Lent to summer 2020, for fear of a virus, guidelines forbade the faithful to receive Our Lord in the Sacred Host (or from the Chalice). Being deprived of sacramental Communion, people got used to spiritual communion instead. In spiritual Read more
Dr Joseph Shaw writes for LifeSiteNews – Readers may be surprised, or scandalized, that Catholics like myself critical of bishops who appear to be pushing the practice of Communion in the hand during the COVID-19 epidemic are minimizing the importance of the virtue of obedience. So having criticized one view of what Read more
Roberto de Mattei writes for Corrispondenza Romana / Rorate Caeli — The era of the Coronavirus is seeing a new phase in the cosmic struggle between the celestial and infernal forces. In history, in fact, along with the hand of God, we also need to see the hand of the Devil Read more
Jonathon van Maren reports for LifeSiteNews — How did we get modern sex education — and why? These are questions I frequently get from parents. A few years ago, I decided to pose them to Peter Hitchens, a well known journalist, author, and cultural commentator hailing from Oxford, England. He Read more
Jonathon van Maren reports for LifeSiteNews — — Back in 2014, a study conducted by the online dating website ChristianMingle.com revealed that 63% of single Christians between the age of 18 to 59 indicated that they would be willing to have sex before marriage. One commentator noted that these numbers Read more
ChurchMilitanmt.com writes — In his 1981 magnum opus Simulacra and Simulation, French postmodernist thinker Jean Baudrillard famously coined the term, “hyperreality,” which the philosopher defined as a situation in which symbols, images or what Baudrillard calls “simulacra and simulation,” become “more real than real.” Jean Baudrillard As Baudrillard argues, for Read more
Dr Michael Brown writes for LifeSiteNews — Speaking of Orwell’s 1984, a blog post noted that, “By controlling the language, Big Brother controls the way that the people think. With a limited vocabulary, the people are limited in how much they can think, as well as, what they think about.” Read more