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When Misery Has Too Much Company

by John Horvat II November 25, 2020October 6, 2018

Misery has a lot of company these days. Perhaps too much. The number of those unhappy, stressed, or lonely has reached its highest point on record. America is not alone in its misery. However, it is hardly consoling that the whole world keeps it company. This climate of discontent is the consistent … Read more

New Book “A Pastoral Revolution” Sifting Through the Language of Radical Change in the Church

by John Horvat II November 25, 2020October 3, 2018

Trying to Control the Church by Changing the Words

YORK, Penn. (October 3, 2018) An important new book has just been released to help Catholics make sense of the confusing language of change in the Church. A Pastoral Revolution: Six Talismanic Words In the Ecclesial Debate on the Family is authored by Italian scholar Guido Vignelli. It examines words that are … Read more

Nearly 23,000 Rosary Rallies Call for Nation’s Conversion: Will You Be There on October 13?

by John Horvat II November 25, 2020October 2, 2018

In the face of a general moral decay inside the Church and society, Americans across the nation will be gathering in the public square to pray the rosary on October 13. They will be calling upon God’s aid because human solutions are failing. What sets this effort apart from any other is … Read more

Save Us From the Deniers of Hell

by John Horvat II November 25, 2020October 2, 2018

Anyone who wonders why the Catholic Church is in its present crisis need only read Dr. Scott Bruce’s “Do We Still Need to Believe in Hell?” The Wall Street Journal article (9/15-16/2018) recently appeared in its popular weekend review section. It was a rather typical yet brutal appraisal of the notion of … Read more

It Is Still a Mortal Sin After the Children Are Grown: The Implications of “Gray Divorce”

by Edwin Benson October 5, 2018September 29, 2018

Although it is not new, a trend called “gray divorce” is growing. Charles Schwab’s Advisor Services recently ran an article in which they point out that, “People are living longer, and divorces after age 50 are happening at twice the rate they did just a generation ago.” This statement is based on … Read more

“Paradigm Shift”–A Critical Assessment of the Francis Pontificate

by Edwin Benson November 20, 2018September 27, 2018

Pope Francis’s “Paradigm Shift”: Continuity or Rupture in the Mission of the Church? An Assessment of His Pontificate’s First Five Years. Pope Francis places Catholics in a dilemma. Many have the very understandable, indeed holy, desire to obey the Successor of Saint Peter. At the same time, Pope Francis seems … Read more

“Pope Francis’s ‘Paradigm Shift’” Helps Catholics Oppose Radical Change in the Church

by John Horvat II November 25, 2020September 25, 2018

YORK, Penn. (Sept. 26, 2018) An important new book has just been released to help Catholics better understand and oppose the radical and confusing changes of the Pope Francis era. Pope Francis’s “Paradigm Shift”: Continuity or Rupture in the Mission of the Church? An Assessment of His Pontificate’s First Five Years takes … Read more

An Appeal to the Divine Shepherdess

by John Horvat II November 25, 2020September 24, 2018

September 25 is the feast of the Divine Shepherdess. This devotion dates back to 1703, when Capuchin Friar Isidoro of Seville, a scion of Spain’s most noble families, experienced a mystical illumination in which the Virgin Mary asked him to spread devotion to her as Shepherdess of Souls. He commissioned a painting, … Read more

Four Characteristics of the Liberal Mind That Are Destroying Society

by John Horvat II November 25, 2020September 23, 2018

Conservatives often blame liberals for the breakdown in society today. After all, liberals challenged an order that existed and replaced it with a situation that is now unraveling. This unraveling can be traced to the efforts of liberal activists to influence legislation and elections and to liberal control of the media that … Read more

Homosexual Scandals and the “Smoke of Satan”: Understanding the Depth of the Present Crisis

by Luiz Sérgio Solimeo November 20, 2018September 21, 2018

When man is facing a crisis, his common tendency is to seek an easy, effective and complete solution. Easy solutions often come to mind without trying to understand in depth the real characteristics of the crisis and its possible causes. Thus, instead of solving crises, such solutions only aggravate them by adding … Read more