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If the Church is to continue to transform and humanize the world, how can she dispense with beauty in her liturgies, that beauty which is so closely linked with love and with the radiance of the Resurrection? —Cardinal Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) This question,...
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Musicam Sacram, 1967, highlights the importance of singing in the sacred liturgy and provides useful instruction for prioritizing the parts of the Mass that should be sung. Additionally, Musicam Sacram specifically retains the distinctions between Solemn, Sung, and...
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It was a sunny spring day in May 1959 when I entered the nave of Notre-Dame de Paris for the very first time. As I looked up into the seemingly weightless vaults, and then down the colonnade to the distant apse, the sheer beauty of the architecture took my breath...
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In an earlier essay in this series, we remarked how dispassionate or despondent observers at the beginning of the 19th century might have considered that the Catholic Church was terminally ill and on its deathbed. The previous century had seen the rise of despotic and...
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The growth of classical education schools is astonishing. The numbers keep rising; there is no sign that the movement is beginning to plateau. Schools open, networks are created, charters are authorized, and kids fill the seats. One would think that as more spaces are...
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Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Rev. 2:11). This passage from Scripture is frequently quoted to justify a so-called “synodal Church,” a concept that at least partially, if not completely, contradicts the Catholic...
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The earliest inscription declaring Jesus as God – deemed ‘The greatest discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls’ – was uncovered beneath the floor of an Israeli prison and is now on display in America. The 1,800-year-old mosaic, discovered by an...
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Since the election we’ve seen countless examples of unhinged, callow, hysterical emoting in which people disappointed in Kamala Harris’ loss have displayed on parts of social media behaviors that, in a more normal society, would bring out the folks with straitjackets....
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Devoted to preserving the Church’s tradition of sacred music, the men’s choral vocal ensemble Floriani has sung at Masses and concerts in shrines, basilicas and cathedrals across the United States. This summer, they sang before thousands of pilgrims during Eucharistic...
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Everyone expected massive demonstrations after the election, no matter who won. It didn’t happen. I suspect no one is disappointed. But I am disappointed that there was no dancing in the streets. Is that considered uncivil for elections? All elections, or just this...
