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…
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On the vocation and mission of Catholic priests
BY Mgr Olympe-Philippe Gerbet
The venerable Bishop of Perpignan in Occitania, Mgr Olympe-Philippe Gerbet (1798–1864), is distinguished for his contribution to Catholic philosophy and…
READ MOREA pagan world: sermon on the fourth Sunday of Advent
BY a Dominican Friar
“In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea …”What was the world…
READ MOREPut not your trust in princes
BY Alan Fimister
“Put not your trust in princes: in the children of men, in whom there is no salvation” (Ps 146:3)As we…
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 MOREThe friend of the Bridegroom: sermon on Gaudete Sunday
BY a Dominican Friar
“There hath stood one in the midst of you, whom you know not.”This Sunday of Advent is called Gaudete Sunday,…
READ MORECountering Marian minimalism: Mary’s Conception as “heavenly illuminatrix”
BY Karen Darantière
A radical form of Marian minimalism has seeped into many Catholic souls. A clear sign of this is the widespread…
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 Lord will not delay: meditation on the second Sunday of Advent
BY Fr Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene OCD
From Divine IntimacyPreludeI place myself in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, to receive His twofold invitation to…
READ MOREEngland hangs by a thread
BY Fr Thomas Crean OP
As Pope Leo XIII declared in his encyclical of 1884, Humanum genus, “to wish … to bring back, after a…
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 MOREOn the general judgement: sermon on the first Sunday of Advent
BY St Alphonsus Liguori
“And they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of Heaven with much power and majesty.” (Mt…
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