Thursday, December 4, 2025

Barnabites, Civil Wars and Confusing Synods

Saint Anthony Zaccaria (+1539), from noble lineage in late-renaissance Italy, first studied medicine, then for the priesthood, adopting a life of great discipline and...

Food for the Mind

A few good reads we might suggest: In the metaphysical maelstrom that oft characterizes this current Magisterium, a nugget of clarity, in the recent document...

World Day of Prayer for Priests

Today, the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart, is the World Day of Prayer for Priests, instituted by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2002,...

Hunchbacks and Hate Crimes

Disturbing, and all-too ironic, that younger humans have ‘horns’ growing out of the back of their skulls, to compensate for bent necks hunching over...

Of Catholic in Name and Coerced Abortion

The tide may be turning, just a little, on the education front, as Indianapolis Archbishop Charles Thompson stripped a Catholic school of its Catholic...

Welcome to Hell

I might have re-named it, had I bought the town of Hell, Michigan, as did ‘YouTuber’ Elijah Daniel, of whom I had never heard,...

Trinity Sunday Clarificatio

Once again, a blessed solemnity of the Trinity, and, on a more secular level, although in a connected way, a happy Fathers' Day to...

Mater Ecclesiae in Ordinary Time

We celebrate today the memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church, an ancient title of the Virgin, which was formally instituted into the Holy...

Controlling Truth

On the canary in the coalmine files, one headline declared that web traffic for the Daily Mail decreased by 50% after Google ‘tweaked’ its...

Norbert and Normandy

Saint Norbert (+1134) was a zealous bishop and founder, at the forefront of the ecclesial reform named after Pope Gregory VII, Hildebrand, who was...