Historic survey of US Catholics blames communion in the hand, homosexual priests for lack of faith in the Eucharist
In the largest survey of American Catholics ever conducted, vast numbers of the faithful blame Communion in the hand, extraordinary Eucharistic ministers, and homosexuality among the clergy as the most powerful reasons for lack of faith in the Eucharist. On Tuesday,...
The Unappreciated Parallels Between Am I Racist? and The Screwtape Letters
One aspect of “Am I Racist?” that has yet to receive any attention is how closely it aligns with the apologetic style of The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis.
Is investment in Sacred Music really necessary?
AS A STUDENT OF MUSIC, I was frequently plagued with a sense of anxiety that the work I had set about was a disposable “extra” or nicety. It seemed to me that, while society would be crippled without farmers, physicians, construction workers, or engineers, there would...
Life’s greatest adventure
Host: When we look at the Catholic church and its decline in recent years—less young people going, less people signing up for a religious life, and since, you could say the 60s… Jordan Peterson: Well, it’s all guitar and hippies. Who the hell cares? Host: (laughing)…...
The fate of empires and search for survival
Glubb Pasha wrote this in his old age. He was born in the late Victorian era and lived to see the British Empire collapse. He considered well what was right in front of his very eyes, instead of indulging in fashionable mandatory pretending. Today broad historical...
Trump posts Saint Michael prayer on X
President Donald Trump posted the Saint Michael the Archangel prayer on social media Sunday night along with a painting by 17th century artist Guido Reni. The Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel on September 29. Pope Leo XIII composed the...
Bishop finds sacred music essential for liturgy
Sacred music is "integral" to the Catholic Church's liturgy, Bishop Alexander K. Sample said in a Feb. 13 pastoral letter to the people of the Diocese of Marquette. "In any discussion of the...'art of celebrating' as it relates to the Holy Mass, perhaps nothing is...
What does the church really say about music in Catholic Mass?
Since the close of the Second Vatican Council, church music has been at the center of a lot of controversy. In many places liturgy has become mere entertainment or an emotional pep rally. Music has become the very center of a crisis which has profoundly affected the...
Parishes preparing their people for… what exactly?
Ordinarily, do untrained and unprepared people “rise to the occasion” when faced with enormous challenges? In great fiction, they often do. In real life? Well, that’s another story. People who work in fields where error can result in death (e.g., soldiers, law...
The bishops want Illumination, and they want it now.
The Eucharistic Revival isn’t, as claimed, a grass-roots initiative, and fails to take into account a penetrating blow to the hearts of the faithful in the US and around the world, a blow inflicted by the very hierarchy that now claims to seek to impart love for the...