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Happy (Feast of St.) Valentine’s Day, by Emily Finley – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Happy (Feast of St.) Valentine’s Day, by Emily Finley

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February 14, 2025

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February 15, 2025

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By Emily Finley, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 14, 2025

Emily Finley holds a PhD in Politics from The Catholic University of America. Find her on Substack at https://efinley.substack.com/.

St. Valentine apparently did not meet the DEI criteria or the historical-critical requirement, so he was removed from the liturgical calendar.

On this day in 1969, Paul VI slapped Roman and Eastern Catholics in the face with his motu proprio Mysterii Paschalis. With all of the wisdom and foresight of a bureaucrat, Paul VI explained why the “suppression of reference to a certain number of saints who are not universally known” is required as part of the Second Vatican Council’s cleanup and restoration of Holy Mother Church.

Some unfortunate victims, such as St. Valentine, are not, it turns out, universally significant, despite their place in the collective Catholic memory and even in the wider culture (although stripped of religious significance). …

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Happy (Feast of St.) Valentine’s Day, by Emily Finley

USAID, Ideological Imperialism and the Sexual State, by Jennifer Roback Morse

Saint of the Day for February 15: St. Claude de la Colombière

By Emily Finley, Crisis Magazine, Feb. 14, 2025

St. Valentine apparently did not meet the DEI criteria or the historical-critical requirement, so he was removed from the liturgical calendar.

Some unfortunate victims, such as St. Valentine, are not, it turns out, universally significant, despite their place in the collective Catholic memory and even in the wider culture (although stripped of religious significance). …

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