Pope 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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Winston Churchill, Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira and the origins of the Second World War
BY Roberto de Mattei
In the Fatima message of 13 July 1917, Our Lady said: “The war is going to end: but if people…
READ MOREMartin Heidegger & Saint Edith Stein : two contrasting lives
by Roberto de Mattei At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new philosophical school in Europe stepped forward to…
READ MORESaint Elias and the noctilucent clouds of July
BY Roberto de Mattei
In the last weeks of July, during the hours of twilight, there appeared in the sky a rare atmospheric phenomenon…
READ MOREQuae utilitas in sanguine meo?
BY Roberto de Mattei
Quae utilitas in sanguine meo? — “What profit is there in my blood?” (Ps 29:10) These words of the Psalms…
READ MORESt Claude de la Colombière: apostle of the Sacred Heart
BY Roberto de Mattei
The devotion to the Sacred Heart that characterises the month of June is linked above all to the figure of…
READ MOREThe European Union and its future
BY Roberto de Mattei
“Two lame ducks, Macron and Scholz, and a former sovereignist ugly duckling turned into a swan, Giorgia Meloni. This is…
READ MORETo reform, not disfigure, the Church
BY Roberto de Mattei
In the face of the disarray of the contemporary ecclesiastical situation, there is no lack of those, in the traditionalist…
READ MOREThe judgement of God in history
BY Roberto de Mattei
The following article is adapted from a talk given by Professor de Mattei on 21 May 2020 at the online…
READ MOREThe tears of Don Bosco and the hour of truth
BY Roberto de Mattei
Among the thousands of travellers who crowd the Termini station in Rome every day, some stop by the nearby Basilica…
READ MOREThe origins of a moral revolution: Vatican II on marriage and the family (Part 2)
BY Roberto de Mattei
This is the second part of the article begun in last week’s Digest, which was originally written by Professor Roberto…
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BY Roberto de Mattei
The advancing threat to Catholic teaching on marriage and the family, discussed in last week’s article, “Fiducia supplicans and the…
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