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Beatified and???Based???: Why Gen Z Catholics are falling for Fulton Sheen
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (74+ words) Gigi Duncan, National Catholic Register on Thursday, September 10, 2026 Sheen continues to...artificial and uncompromising without losing sight of the audience in front of him. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass......
The Western way of reason
1+ week, 6+ day ago (52+ words) 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...
Caravaggio???s???The Incredulity of St. Thomas???
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (486+ words) 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...that spot. There’s still a round remnant of it in the Roman Forum. And, my…...
Charlie Kirk???s evangelical populism
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (60+ words) 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...20 Franz Biebl’s Ave…...
On his 'Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)"
1+ week, 6+ day ago (123+ words) music? I was born for opera buffa, as you well know. The post On his ‘Petite Messe Solennelle (Little Solemn Mass)’ appeared first on The Catholic Thing. Dear Lord, here it is finished, this poor little...and grant me Paradise…...
Instruction on Sacred Music
3+ week, 2+ day ago (356+ words) 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 be holy,...exclude all profanity not…...
England???s historic cathedrals turn to pop concerts and silent discos
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (76+ words) Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register on Monday, September 7, 2026 As Church of England...Christian history are hosting tribute acts, ‘raves in the nave’ and becoming nightclubs — prompting charges of desecration. Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s…...
The rot goes deeper
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (77+ words) faithful what Rome has decided? Raymond and Mel on The Resurrection of the Christ Bishop Barron’s Heaven in Stone and Glass...20 Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria sung by Chanticleer & the U.S. Naval Academy Men’s Glee Club...
Devolution a la Mode
1+ hour, 51+ min ago (881+ words) 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. But things are not…...
Chimes of Freedom
2+ week, 1+ day ago (900+ words) 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...have to serve God. Dylan knew better: “It may be the…...