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June 1, 2026
By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register - Hungary’s former ambassador to the Holy See, who has written a new booklet, recalls his first disorienting encounter with the old rite and explains how with this new work he aims to help others approach it with understanding and peace... The traditional Latin Mass has become a point of both devotion and controversy in recent years, drawing growing numbers of young faithful even in the face of restrictions from Rome. ...
June 1, 2026
By Francis P. Sempa, The American Spectator - When Whittaker Chambers abandoned atheistic communism for Christianity in the late 1930s, he told his wife that they were joining the losing side in what he viewed as a great spiritual struggle. Later... wrote (in) his magnificent autobiography... which he described the struggle between communism and Western civilization as a battle between those who believe that “Man” is the center of the universe and those who believe that God is the center of the universe. Communism... is “man’s second oldest faith” whose “promise was whispered in the first days of Creation under the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil: ‘Ye shall be as gods.’” Artificial Intelligence (AI) whispers the same promise as the Serpent made to Eve and Adam in the Garden of Eden.
June 1, 2026
By Jimmy Akin, Catholic World Report - The Catholic Church teaches that the Holy Trinity is the central mystery of the Christian faith. But how much do we know about this mystery? What is its history? What does it mean? And how can it be proved?... Here are 12 things to know and to share... 1. Where does the word “Trinity” come from?... It comes from the Latin word “trinitas,” which means “three” or “triad.” The Greek equivalent is “triados.”
June 1, 2026
By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture - Papal documents are not above criticism. But the criticisms from major right-leaning commentators, in outlets both secular and Catholic, were not always this silly. After 12 years of Francis, the office of the papacy no longer commands quite the same Olympian height of moral certitude in people’s minds than it once did under, say, John Paul II. That may be part of it. Traditionalists all along warned conservatives like, well, me, that “papalotry”—making a sort of oracle out of the Pope—would be our undoing, and that correction now seems to have arrived.
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