Catholic Church

March 13, 2021

Taking Stock at Lent’s Midpoint, by Russell Shaw

By Russell Shaw, Crisis Magazine - And as we proceed with this stock-taking, here are some thoughts from a sermon called “The Lapse of Time” by St. John Henry Newman: “We know very well that much as we may have attempted, we have done very little, that our very best service is nothing worth–and the more we attempt, the more clearly we shall see how little we have hitherto attempted.”

March 13, 2021

Vatican Essentially Prohibits Traditional Masses in Saint Peter’s Basilica, by Jeanne Smits

By Jeanne Smits, LifeSiteNews - In a new development infringing on the freedom to celebrate the “extraordinary form” of the Roman rite, the Vatican’s Secretariat of State circulated a note with details of new dispositions restricting all “individual” Masses in Saint Peter’s Basilica, with special, even more restrictive measures for the traditional rite.

March 13, 2021

COVID, Global Tyranny, and the Religion of Antichrist, by John Zmirak

By John Zmirak, The Stream - If you’re not a hard-core traditional Catholic, you might not know much about Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò. He is the whistleblower among our bishops. Viganò revealed that Pope Francis knew all about then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick’s sexual harassment of young seminarians... In an interview with a German newspaper this month, Archbishop Viganò issued a stark, even apocalyptic warning. If you read the Christian press, you probably come across dire accounts of the dangers of “Christian Nationalism.” But Viganò points to the exact opposite threat: Woke Globalism.

March 13, 2021

Saints Who Were Moms Balancing Work and Family Life, by Meg Hunter-Kilmer

By Meg Hunter-Kilmer, Aleteia - Any conversation about working mothers through history needs to acknowledge that all mothers are working mothers and that for centuries those who stayed at home with their children were nearly always doing many hours of labor a day, even if they had no outside employer. Mothers have always been farmers and seamstresses and laundresses and diplomats, even if nobody was paying them for their work.