Looking at the Postmodern Causes of the Population Implosion

Looking at the Postmodern Causes of the Population Implosion

Suddenly, a demographic winter is upon us. We have seen it coming for decades. However, the effects of this population implosion are now starting to unfold. Nation after nation reports low birth rates and aging populations. No country is exempt from its devastation. The lack of children is starting to have grave … Read more

Why All Saints Day Should Give Us Great Hope

  All Saints Day is too often neglected or misunderstood. In recent times, it serves mostly as the pretext for the modern world’s growing fascination with witchcraft and the occult, the day before on Halloween (“All Hallows Eve” or the Eve of All Saints). In fact, All Saints Day is one of … Read more

Protests Work: How The Satanic Temple Fell Apart

Protests Work: How The Satanic Temple Fell Apart

Opposing Satanism can strike us as daunting or even impossible. Some would say that we, mere humans, are no match for the machinations of the Evil One. This thinking gives Satan more credit than he deserves. For millennia, he has been fighting a losing battle against God, the angels and faithful Catholics. … Read more

Purgatory’s Worst Punishment is Longing to See God

Purgatory’s Worst Punishment is Longing to See God

This article is the first part of a series about Purgatory, a topic that is rarely discussed today. A knowledge of Purgatory is essential if souls are to avoid the pains of this place of expiation. The next article can be found here. *     *     * In the magnificent book … Read more

Handwriting—Is it Obsolete?

Handwriting—Is it Obsolete?

In a world where everything is digital and most people spend their days typing on computers, laptops or smartphones, does handwriting have a place? The answer is yes. Handwriting wins first place as a learning and cultural tool for adults and youth today. Science and the Academic world confirm this conclusion. For … Read more

Five Reasons Why Our Lady of Fatima is More Important Than Ever

Five Reasons Why Our Lady of Fatima is More Important Than Ever

October 13 marks the anniversary of the Miracle of the Sun, the culmination of Our Lady’s apparitions to three shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. This great miracle, witnessed by more than 70,000 people, was the first time since the Resurrection of Our Lord that God performed a public miracle that … Read more

Reviving Sacred Spaces—Conewago Chapel’s Journey Through Church Restoration

Many historic parishes around the United States rejected the architectural embellishments that marked them as distinctively Catholic during the roughly thirty years after the Second Vatican Council. Many parishioners mourned as high altars, murals, windows and other features were carted away, covered over, or simply destroyed. Others silently wept as sacred decorations … Read more

Where Do Homosexual Activists Want the Church to Go?

Where Do Homosexual Activists Want the Church to Go?

Pro-homosexual activists working inside the Catholic Church used to ask for pastoral openness as a means to gain sympathy for their cause. They knew that as long as Church doctrine defined homosexual acts as intrinsically disordered and gravely sinful, they were limited to cries for “inclusion” and “welcome.” Now, however, activists are … Read more