The Church’s holiness and the scandals within
BY Roberto de Mattei
As theologians explain, the Church founded by Jesus Christ is the Kingdom of God in this world, the fulfilment of…
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Cristina Campo and the world of tradition
BY Roberto de Mattei
The profound crisis afflicting the Church is traced by many to the reign of Pope Francis, interpreted as a radical…
READ MOREUS president Donald Trump and The Force of Destiny
BY Roberto de Mattei
The tone of Donald Trump’s inaugural address at the White House on 20 January 2025 was one of comeback and…
READ MOREThe miraculous conversion of Alphonse Ratisbonne
BY Roberto de Mattei
Everyone knows about the Marian shrines of Loreto and Pompeii, and, in Rome, the great basilicas, but not everyone knows…
READ MOREThe 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…
READ MOREA 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…
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