Sixteenth Sunday: Weeding Out the Mystery of Iniquity
The one who sows the good seed is the Son of Man; the field is the world, and the good seed are the children...
Flannery’s Faithful Fiction
Speed, not death, is the great leveller today. Travellers dash around the globe destroying by their visits the very sites and cultures they have...
Prodigal Catholics – Why They Leave, and Why They Return
A Pew Research Center poll indicated one out of every ten Americans is an ex-Catholic. Add them up as if they were a church...
The Fire of Faith on Earth
âAnd yet, when the Son of man returns will he find faith on earth?â (Lk. 18:8). â§Ÿ
Last Sunday, the anniversary of the last apparition...
Radical Feminism and the Anti-Mary
âYes. All murals and stained glass windows of white Jesus, and his European mother, and their white friends should also come down. They are...
Reflections on Rome
I post this final report, for now, on my recent pilgrimage, and my final destination, the eternal city to which all roads lead, Roma. These...
Father Marco Testa’s Series on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Compiled
A faithful reader mentioned that she had difficulty finding Father Marco Testa's wonderful, sublime, but also very pragmatic and a propos series on the...
Saint Caecelia and What Church Music Should Be
As the patroness of Church music, and music in general, Saint Caeceilia has her work cut out for her. A young virgin martyr in...
Sovietization, Migration and Destabilization
âIf my requests are heeded, Russia will be converted, and there will be peace; if not, she will spread her errors throughout the world,...
The Dilemmas of Atheism
âWhen the Son of man comes, will He find faith on the earth?â (Luke 18:8).
The following random reflections on atheism address what many...





















