5+ day, 18+ hour ago  (392+ words) While an act may violate the requirement for a pontifical mandate, it does not necessarily juridically constitute a rupture of communion or schism. The society defends itself against any accusation of schism and, relying on all traditional theology and the…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (462+ words) Without an interior life of love, prayer, sacrifice, and repentance, even sound doctrine can't stop the moral collapse and spiritual bankruptcy in the Church. I have just finished reading an excellent symposium written by contemporary Catholic Scholastic Theologians. Each, in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1319+ words) Few clergy will address, in specificity, the broadening third rail of LGBT ideologies, that each day seem to add to our multifaceted civilizational moral collapse. Yet again at around 3 p. m. tomorrow, for the 1, 993rd year in a row, the Starved Man will…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (286+ words) That is not what the natural law teaches, nor the Magisterium of the Church," Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre'once said. For, he added:' Obedience presupposes an authority which gives an order or issues a law. Human authorities, even those instituted by God,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (530+ words) We are all intimately familiar with what the statistics prove in raw numbers concerning our evangelization efforts over the past sixty-years. But how do we turn this around? One responsibility clergy did not then often consider was retaining and attracting…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (389+ words) What looks like a "collapsing" Church in the Byzantine Eparchy of Parma is actually a revival, and here's why. When some observers claim'such as Dr. D. P. Curtin does in his article in Crisis Magazine'that the "Byzantine Catholic Church is collapsing" and…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (422+ words) Although the Holy Catholic Church will persist until the end of time, there have been moments in time when it has seemed beyond hope of resuscitation. The year 1968 was one of those moments, so much so that we shouldn't be…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (393+ words) A notorious case of sliding downhill with the prevailing culture is clothing. Years ago, I remember speaking with a gentleman in regard to the word "countercultural." I was under the starry-eyed impression that as a Catholic girl attending a liberal…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (1408+ words) Tradition favors formation through participation, not exclusion. Children belong at Mass precisely because they are learning to love what is sacred. In some cases, versions of this argument sprout legs and morph into a haughty, "Why can't you control your…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1052+ words) While the Byzantine Catholic Church in America endures as a witness to a lost era, statistics point to its certain demise unless something drastic changes. The Sad Collapse of the Byzantine Catholic Church While the Byzantine Catholic Church in America…...