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Devolution a la Mode
10+ hour, 56+ min ago (881+ words) Anthony Esolen on Sunday, September 13, 2026 “That’s too long!” says one of the local boys. “Give me a shorter one.” “Jesus wept,” says Mary Ellen. That earns the boy a gift, and a look of pious ecstasy from the charitable lady....
Charlie Kirk???s evangelical populism
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (60+ words) Dale M. Coulter, First Things on Friday, September 11, 2026 The evangelical populism that Kirk represented has only strengthened in the wake of his death. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass – in theaters…...
Beatified and???Based???: Why Gen Z Catholics are falling for Fulton Sheen
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (74+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Thursday, September 10, 2026 Sheen continues to speak to young Catholics. He was fiery without being cruel, polished without seeming artificial and uncompromising without losing sight of the audience in front of him. Raymond and Mel…...
The rot goes deeper
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (77+ words) Diane Montagna on Monday, September 7, 2026 What happens when a ruling from Rome reaches a diocesan chancery declaring that its suspension of a priest was “invalid,” and chancery officials choose not to tell its clergy and faithful what Rome has decided?...
Making sense of the surreal storm of support for Lindsay Clancy
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (72+ words) Anne Hendershott, Catholic World Report on Monday, September 7, 2026 As Walker Percy understood decades ago, when institutions fail to form us and when culture no longer provides purpose, people begin to crave the intensity of rupture. Raymond and Mel on The…...
Walk in the footsteps of Fulton Sheen
1+ week, 4+ day ago (64+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Wednesday, September 2, 2026 A weeklong pilgrimage by the Fulton Sheen Movement will lead participants to the places and traditions that shaped Fulton Sheen’s life. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming…...
Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
1+ week, 5+ day ago (267+ words) Hilaire Belloc on Tuesday, September 1, 2026 Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold And very Regent of the untroubled sky, Whom in a dream St. Hilda did behold And heard a woodland music passing by: You shall receive me when the clouds…...
The Western way of reason
1+ week, 6+ day ago (52+ words) Victor Davis Hanson, New Criterion on Monday, August 31, 2026 On the intellectual legacy of ancient Greece and Rome. ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’: a 20-minute documentary on the forthcoming Mel Gibson film National Shrine Cathedral of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Dallas,…...
Chimes of Freedom
2+ week, 1+ day ago (900+ words) Fr. Raymond J. de Souza on Saturday, August 29, 2026 Is Bob Dylan’s music a Catholic thing? Many a homilist has quoted his 1979 song Gotta Serve Somebody, especially against the argument that unbelievers are freer because they don’t have to serve God. Dylan…...
Instruction on Sacred Music
3+ week, 2+ day ago (356+ words) St. Pius X on Friday, August 21, 2026 2. Sacred music should consequently possess, in the highest degree, the qualities proper to the liturgy, and in particular sanctity and goodness of form, which will spontaneously produce the final quality of universality. It must…...