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Thoughts on a New Religious Order for the 21st Century January 30, 2025
The announcement set the Catholic infosphere abuzz: Bishop Robert Barron’s Word On Fire apostolate is now set to grow in a new direction by adding a small group of priestly religious to its roster. That news came at almost the same time as the revela...
The Modern History of Standing for Communion January 15, 2025
The posture of Catholics receiving Communion has been a subject of discussion in recent weeks, after Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago wrote a column last month asking that people “receive Holy Communion standing.”While kneeling is known to have been ...
The Next Pope, as Seen Through a Left-Wing Fever Dream December 09, 2024
But in the world of the film Conclave, this timid remnant of conservative cardinals is an overwhelming force that threatens to return the Church to an earlier era of traditional doctrine, devotion, and liturgy. “We must never return to the Latin litu...
The Bible and Marian Art December 04, 2024
All generations shall call me blessed,” she correctly predicted in her famous song of prayer, the Magnificat (Luke 1:48). From late antiquity to the present, images of Mary during her miraculous pregnancy, cradling the infant Jesus, suffering at his ...
Vatican II at 60: ‘Lumen Gentium’ Signaled a Historic Call to Live Holiness September 20, 2024
The universal call to holiness is a signature teaching of the Second Vatican Council. The topic forms the subject of the fifth chapter of Lumen Gentium, the Council’s dogmatic constitution on the Church. With this text, Vatican II stated decisively t...
Vatican II: For Better or For Worse August 01, 2024
However, the problem in producing the Council’s finally-accepted documents was that they all had to be couched in such a way that would satisfy all the different dissident groups—who wrangled not just over every sentence but virtually over every word...
