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RESTORING THE SACRED . . . The Reality Of The Sacred Passion
The Lenten season comes each year as a veritable retreat for the Church throughout the world, a particularly “acceptable time” (2 Cor. 6:2) for all of us to begin anew the pursuit of perfection in the spiritual life. As in a typical retreat, that pursuit opens with the acknowledgment of our need for repentance and […]
The Swill Of DEI
If there was ever a close-up, in-person example of the impact of a bad idea, it is the District of Columbia’s embrace of former President Joe Biden’s DEI lunacy five years ago. The District’s sane leaders could have written off Joe as a doddering dolt or even put him in a straitjacket — but no, […]
A Leaven In The World . . . Lent, Ben Sasse, And Memento Mori
Lent is upon us once again and with it another opportunity for grace and conversion. This most penitential season begins on Ash Wednesday with the stern admonition, “Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris.” “Remember, man, you are dust.” “Remember, man, you will die.” For many public figures on the internet it has […]
A Bishop Ahead Of His Time
Archbishop John Aloysius Murphy (1905–1995), whose life, like that of St. John Henry Newman (1801–1890), spanned the better part of the century in which he lived, is a man worthy of remembrance for several reasons. During his tenure as Bishop of Cardiff (Wales) from 1949 to 1961, he became rightly known as “The Builder.” When […]
A Leaven In The World . . . Lent, Ben Sasse, And Memento Mori
Lent is upon us once again and with it another opportunity for grace and conversion. This most penitential season begins on Ash Wednesday with the stern admonition, “Meménto, homo, quia pulvis es, et in púlverem revertéris.” “Remember, man, you are dust.” “Remember, man, you will die.” For many public figures on the internet it has […]
News Notes
By William Jerry U.S. Cardinals Urge White House To Pursue ‘Genuinely Moral’ Foreign Policy: Three U.S.-based Catholic cardinals issued a joint statement urging a fundamental reexamination of American foreign policy, rejecting war as a tool for narrow national interests and calling for military action to be used only as a last resort in extreme circumstances. […]
Trump And Vance Celebrate The March For Life
By CHRISTOPHER MANION Forty-two years ago, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed Jan. 22 as “National Sanctity of Human Life Day.” Last week, President Donald J. Trump celebrated that proclamation with an inspiring note of gratitude honoring the pro-life movement. As usual, it was ignored by the secular media. “On July 4, 1776,” the president wrote, “our […]
We Know There Is A God From The Beautiful Laws Of Nature
By RAYMOND DE SOUZA You must have noticed that there are plenty of laws in Nature: in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, algebra, geometry, etc. Scientists did not invent the laws of nature, they just discover them. Even the smallest speck of dust, is, in all its movements and changes, subject to fixed natural laws. The […]
