There is a universal crisis inside society today that seeks to overturn all things Christian. Catholic thinker Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira called this universal crisis the Revolution (with a capital R). He held that the two driving forces of this Revolution are the vices of pride and sensuality. The following commentaries show … Read more
Many people wonder whether the current crisis in the Church began with the Second Vatican Council. Others believe that the crisis predates the council, and therefore the latter cannot be accused of causing it. The reality is more complex. If the Church were not in crisis, the Second Vatican Council, with all … Read more
The panic surrounding the Chinese virus is claiming an impressive list of victims. These include social relations, the ability to receive standard medical treatment and the world economy. All these have suffered greatly due to ill-conceived restrictions put into place because of hysteria over the spread of CoVid-19. However, none is as … Read more
The Archbishop of Cali, Colombia, Most Rev. Darío de Jesús Monsalve, has had many setbacks when exercising his controversial pastoral mission. Zeal for defending the sheep of his flock should not be a problem since the Gospel says that a true shepherd must defend his faithful from the many enemies of the … Read more
Elizabeth Bruenig’s New York Times op-ed “A Saint’s Sins” was a lengthy indictment of the character and actions of Saint Junipero Serra. It is tempting to refer to it as a masterpiece of character assassination, except that it is not masterful. It recycles modernist and old anti-Catholic attacks that ignore the historical … Read more
In the early morning hours of July 23rd of this year, city officials in San Buenaventura (commonly referred to as Ventura), California hired an anti-Catholic crane company to remove a statue of Saint Junipero Serra that had stood in the city for just shy of a century. This move came after a … Read more
If there is one takeaway from the gaudy liberal-fest at the virtual Democratic National Convention in mid-August, it would be that the liberals have a God problem. It’s not a problem with His existence. The convention was hardly a collection of the unchurched, atheists and agnostics intent upon eradicating religion from America. … Read more
The history of America calls to mind many events. People think of the English colonization, the War for Independence, the Louisiana Purchase, the Civil War, and the World Wars. Unfortunately, a significant part of America’s earlier past remains hidden and forgotten. The modern presentation of American history is often limited to the … Read more
When thinking of persecution of the Church, most think about brutal dictators that kill priests and faithful while closing and destroying churches. They tend to believe such situations happen only in countries like Communist China but not here in America. However, there are other ways to carry out persecutions. One way is … Read more
In 1782, Saint Junípero Serra founded his final mission—San Buenaventura—in what is now the city of Ventura, California. In 1833, the Mexican government confiscated the land and sold it to ranchers. By 1936, over 100 years after the Mexican secularization act and almost a century after becoming part of the United States, … Read more