NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: Buona Domenica! This past month has been a profound one for me and this blog, as I have received e-mails and calls from many Priests and lay faithful, expressing their enthusiasm for my recent essay The Emergent Clerical…
Ego Non Te Absolvo… It is Saturday afternoon in the average Parish Church in America. The Priest, perhaps after doing a wedding or a Quinceañera, goes to his Confessional before his Vigil Mass. Hopefully many penitents come and go, having…
“Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon. It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth…
Sounding the Alarm In Catholic circles, the news cycle has been dominated by recent news of several high profile bishops, Cardinal McCarrick and Bishop Pineda foremost among them, who are being publically and forcibly called out for their abuse, sexual…
The following Homily was preached yesterday, April 22, 2018. Many people requested the text, which is placed below. Today you all may notice that the Intercessions of the Mass deal almost exclusively with the issue of Vocations, because today, ‘Good…
On April 5, we commemorated the 250th Anniversary of a Priest most people have never heard of, but in whose debt many lovers of history and Ancient Civilization remain: Egidio Forcellini (1688-1768), an Italian philologist and lexicographer, who was the…
“We look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” – 2 Corinthians 4:18 A few days ago…
Western Education and the Clergy Much ink has been spilled in the past few decades about the so-called collapse of the Western Educational Apparatus. Throughout the late 20th century, many different authors sounded the alarm. Most notably were books by…