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Beatified and???Based???: Why Gen Z Catholics are falling for Fulton Sheen
3+ day, 2+ 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 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,…...
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…...
Charlie Kirk???s evangelical populism
2+ day, 2+ 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…...
Caravaggio???s???The Incredulity of St. Thomas???
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (486+ words) Brad Miner on Sunday, September 6, 2026 There was once a monument in Rome called Milliarium Aureum: the Golden Milestone. The Emperor Augustus erected it in the Forum in about 20 B.C. All distances in Ancient Rome were said to be marked from (or…...
On his 'Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)"
1+ week, 6+ day ago (123+ words) Dear Lord, here it is finished, this poor little mass. Have I just written sacred music, or rather, sacrilegious music? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. The post On his ‘Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)…...
England???s historic cathedrals turn to pop concerts and silent discos
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (76+ words) Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register on Monday, September 7, 2026 As Church of England cathedrals face deep financial strain, venues once central to Britain’s Christian history are hosting tribute acts, ‘raves in the nave’ and becoming nightclubs — prompting charges of desecration. Raymond…...
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…...
Devolution a la Mode
2+ hour, 29+ 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....
Restless and at Home in America
3+ week, 4+ day ago (465+ words) Robert Royal on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Now and then, we get it, for instance, Patrick J. Deneen’s new book American Odyssey: What an Ancient Story Reveals about Our Divided Souls. Many know Deneen as the author of Why Liberalism Failed and one…...