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…
READ MOREVOTF Humanae Vitae: Setting the Context 2017
Eugenics and the true history of the Abortion Campaign (1)
BY Ann Farmer
My book, By Their Fruits: Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign, highlights the problem that what most people know…
READ MOREQueen of Omnipotence: Sermon on the Second Sunday after the Epiphany
BY St Alphonsus Liguori
“And the wine failing, the Mother of Jesus saith to him: They have no wine.” (John 2:3).In the gospel of…
READ MOREAn Open Letter to Ten Ten
Dear Mr Isaacs, Thank you for your statement and comprehensive report responding to Voice of the Family’s Analysis of Ten…
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 MOREOn the vocation and mission of Catholic priests
BY Mgr Olympe-Philippe Gerbet
The venerable Bishop of Perpignan in Occitania, France, Mgr Olympe-Philippe Gerbet (1798–1864), is distinguished for his contribution to Catholic philosophy…
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…
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