Having met recently in Plenary Assembly, the Canadian Catholic Bishops pledged their commitment to: “Continue to dialogue with the Vatican on issues identified by Indigenous delegates and representatives this year. To that end, we have initiated conversations about the desire of many Indigenous Peoples to hear the Church address historical policies and principles … Read more
Some years ago, people criticized the tendency of young people to defer adulthood and live as eternal adolescents. Youth were encouraged to engage in “adulting” by assuming at least some of the duties and responsibilities expected of fully developed individuals. Now a new word is circulating describing another postmodern absurdity: the kidult. … Read more
Many Catholics today are unaware of the immense contributions of the Ultramontanes of the nineteenth century to the resurgence of Catholicism worldwide. Prof. Fernando Furquim de Almeida (1913-1981) studied the Movement and produced dozens of articles detailing its work. We have edited these articles and will be featuring them. They highlight the … Read more
The media—and particularly Catholic media—highlighted October 11’s commemorations of the opening of the Second Vatican Council’s 60th anniversary. Illustrative photos show the massive procession of bishops entering Saint Peter’s Basilica for the Catholic Church’s twenty-first ecumenical council in 1962. However, one might ask whether there is a real cause for celebration. Our … Read more
On October 15, America Needs Fatima, a campaign of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP), coordinated thousands of Public Square Rosary Rallies across the United States. The reasons behind these rallies are to pray for solutions to America’s many problems and to make public reparation for … Read more
It was a brisk, windy day on October 15 when I ventured out to participate in a Public Square Rosary Rally to pray for supernatural solutions to America’s problems. My particular rally was in the small borough of New Oxford in Pennsylvania. The central square serves as a roundabout for two intersecting … Read more
On Oct. 15, America Needs Fatima campaign held 21,455 Public Square Rosary Rallies nationwide. From Connecticut to California and from Florida to Washington and from South Dakota to Hawaii, Rally captains enthusiastically reported on the impact of their rallies upon the public. Over two thousand affiliate rallies were held in Canada, South … Read more
By any reasonable standard, organic chemistry Professor Maitland Jones, Jr. would be a star on any faculty. He literally wrote the book on the subject. His career began at age thirteen, washing test tubes in a Yale University laboratory. He taught at Princeton University for forty-three years. In 2007, he retired from … Read more
The winds of war are blowing as the conflict in Ukraine threatens to expand to include all of Europe and even America. There is much talk of nuclear war—at no time since the 1962 Cuban Crisis has the possibility of such an outbreak been so likely. America could be attacked by nuclear … Read more
An article in The New York Times talks about courtship. The author, Michal Leibowitz, writes wistfully about arranged marriages. Perhaps, she muses, it is time for them to return. The article “Dating Is Broken. Going Retro Could Fix It” is not particularly uplifting. It carries an amoral and pseudo-practical tone in which … Read more