Failed fashions vs the future of the family
BY Ann Farmer
Winkle-picker shoes, miniskirts or, for that matter, frock coats and farthingales no longer brighten our daily lives. Fashions come and…
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The action of holiness in history (1)
BY Dom Prosper Guéranger
Extract from The Christian Sense of historyCan the Christian historian, once he is satisfied that he has broadly sketched out…
READ MOREThe great commandment and the Co-redemptrix
BY Fr Serafino Maria Lanzetta
In the gospel of the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Mt 22:34–46), Our Lord teaches us the great commandment of love,…
READ MORECatholic education: learning the lessons of the past
BY Liam Gibson
In late September 1979, Pope John Paul II visited the Republic of Ireland. By comparison to the rest of Western…
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 MORENovena to Saint Michael and the Nine Choirs of Angels
BY Blessed Pope Pius IX
From the testimony of the pious archdeacon of Évreux, Monsieur Boudon, the most ardent apostle of the holy angels in…
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…
READ MORE“There are no adults left in Ireland,” says leading Irish writer
BY John Smeaton
It strikes me that much of what John Waters said earlier this month in reference to the Irish establishment could…
READ MOREOn bad thoughts: sermon on the eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
BY St Alphonsus de Liguori
“And Jesus seeing their thoughts, said: Why do you think evil in your hearts.” (Mt 9:4)In the gospel of this…
READ MOREAnalysis of Bishops’ Sex Ed programme
Last year, Voice of the Family launched Catholic Schools Watch to investigate and report on corrupting Relationships and Sex Education (RSE)…
READ MOREWinston 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 do…
READ MORELetter from an expert devil to an apprentice tempter: Part 2
BY His Infernal Highness Arcibaldo
Extract from His Infernal Highness Arcibaldo: letters from an expert devil to an apprentice tempter by Fr Serafino Lanzetta (Calx…
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