Pope Pius XI and the “golden treatise” on the Christian education of youth
BY John Smeaton
This is the ninth in a series of articles, rooted in the teaching of Divini Illius Magistri, which seeks to…
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The Passion of the Church
BY Alan Fimister
The Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches that the Church herself must one day pass through a form of crucifixion,…
READ MOREThe triumph of Jesus: meditation on Palm Sunday
BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen OCD
Prelude Jesus, I want to follow You in Your triumph, so that I may follow You later to Calvary. 1…
READ MOREA tale of two children: doctors, disability and the law
BY Liam Gibson
On Sunday 19 March 2023, a “citizens convention” in France concluded a discussion on end-of-life care by calling for the…
READ MOREThe privileges of the month of March
BY Roberto de Mattei
Of all the months of the year, the month of March has special privileges. According to the Bollandist Fathers, it…
READ MOREThe angel’s message: meditation on the Annunciation
BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalen OCD
Prelude At your side, O Mary, I wish to learn how to repeat, in every circumstance, your Ecce ancilla Domini…
READ MOREThe rainbow flag is “about proclaiming power”
BY John Smeaton
This is the eighth in a series of articles, which seeks to assist parents in preparing their children to live…
READ MORE“Synodalism”: the culmination of Pope Francis’s pontificate
BY Roberto de Mattei
After ten years of pontificate, the point of arrival of the Pope Francis’s reign seems to be the October 2023…
READ MOREThe child of the promise: sermon on Laetare Sunday
BY a Dominican Friar
“That Jerusalem which is above is free, which is our mother.” Today is one of the famous Sundays of the…
READ MOREHistorical considerations on the Moscow Patriarchate: part 4
BY Roberto de Mattei
Parts 1 and 2 of this series appeared in the Voice of the Family Digest on 22 February 2023. The Moscow…
READ MOREFounding families (4)
BY Mgr Henri Delassus
This is the twelfth in a series of twenty articles drawn from Mgr Delassus’s two-volume work, The Problem of the Present Time:…
READ MOREThe exorcism of mankind: sermon on the third Sunday of Lent
BY a Dominican Friar
“The last state of that man becomes worse than the first.” People often have wrong ideas about exorcism. They imagine…
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