Light and shadow on the Grotto of Bethlehem
BY Cristiana de Magistris
“Remove from my eyes these despicable rags and this hut unworthy of the God I worship!” This is how, already…
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Praying for peace
BY Cristiana de Magistris
The Russian armed forces’ invasion of the Donbas last February has ushered in a troubling global scenario which threatens nuclear…
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BY Cristiana de Magistris
From 1956 to 1957, Fr Roger-Thomas Calmel OP (1914–1975) was exiled to Spain — an innocent victim of the modernism…
READ MORECan one be devout and wicked at the same time? The answer of St Francis de Sales
by Cristiana de Magistris One day, when St Francis de Sales was speaking with Giampietro Camus, the bishop of Belley, (an admirer…
READ MOREThe democracy that condemned Christ
by Cristiana de Magistris From the evangelist St John, we know that the leaders of the Jewish nation, enraged against…
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by Cristiana de Magistris One of the first Oratorians, a certain companion of St Philip Neri, is known to have…
READ MOREThe Mass of all time: the bulwark of orthodoxy
by Cristiana Magistris The motu proprio, Traditionis custodes, of 16 July 2021, and the Responsa ad dubia (who raised the dubia has not been disclosed), of…
READ MOREThe real “conspiracy” of history
by Cristiana de Magistris The conspiracies, intrigues, and plots that have unfolded throughout the history of man, and which inevitably continue…
READ MOREOn the Epiphany
by Cristiana de Magistris The journey of the Magi from the Orient to the Cradle of Bethlehem is an eloquent…
READ MOREThe birth of the King of kings
by Cristiana de Magistris The truly pacific King, the Prince of Peace, the One who was to teach peace during…
READ MOREThe Christmas of the two Teresas
By Cristiana de Magistris Nothing proves harder for modern man — the so- called “grown-up” Catholic — than the practice…
READ MOREAngels and demons in spiritual warfare today
By Cristiana de Magistris The greatest cunning of the devil consists in making us believe that he does not exist:…
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