The Jubilee, Archbishop Fisichella and La Tenda di Gionata
BY Roberto de Mattei
On 24 December, with the opening of the Holy Door of St Peter’s, Pope Francis inaugurated the 2025 Jubilee. The…
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A world crumbles, Notre Dame rises again
BY Roberto de Mattei
The Syrian revolution appears to be a new tile of that piecemeal Third World War which is the new world…
READ MORESaint Lucy: light in the darkness of our time
BY Roberto de Mattei
13 December is the feast of St Lucy, virgin and martyr. Lucy, patroness of Syracuse, is one of the three…
READ MOREHoly intransigence
BY Roberto de Mattei
Intransigence is the firmness with which one defends one’s ideas. It is holy when these ideas are religious; not of…
READ MOREThe spectre of the patriarchy
BY Roberto de Mattei
The “spectre of the patriarchy” is the theme of an editorial in the daily newspaper Il Messaggero by the sociologist…
READ MOREMary, Mother of Divine Providence
BY Roberto de Mattei
The Congregation of the Clerics Regular of Saint Paul, known as the Barnabites, celebrates on the third Saturday of November…
READ MOREThe wars that are bloodying the world
BY Roberto de Mattei
Over the past century — after the two world conflicts of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945 — wars, revolutions and social upheavals…
READ MOREThe baldacchino of St Peter’s
BY Roberto de Mattei
On 27 October, for the concluding Mass of the synod, the scaffolding that for nine months has covered the baldacchino…
READ MOREPius XII, Sister Pascalina and Cardinal Tien Ken-sin
BY Robert de Mattei
On 8 December, the Catholic Church will have 21 new cardinals. The Sacred College will therefore number 256 members, 141…
READ MOREThe war on the family waged by Flores d’Arcais and MicroMega
BY Roberto de Mattei
Is there really a carefully planned war against the family, as we have written in the article, “The wars that…
READ MOREOn the problem of the heretical pope
BY Roberto de Mattei
The statement that Pope Francis made on the different religions on 13 September in Singapore is probably destined to fuel…
READ MOREPope Francis and the act of faith of St Francis Xavier
BY Roberto de Mattei
Among the gravest of errors widespread today, even in Catholic circles, is the one that holds that religions are equal…
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