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The Catholic Herald

The two practices – kneeling vs. standing, and receiving on the tongue vs. in the hand – have become fused into a single issue: a traditional practice which emphasises reverence, and a post-Vatican II practice that is promoted in the name of an “adult” attitude, and, when conflict arises, in terms of uniformity and obedience to official directives.

Crisis Magazine

We all desire for a renewal of the Catholic Faith and a steadfast practice of it by people in our communities, cities, country, and world. But are we ready for a renewal or revival?

Catholic World Report

Catholic universities go on pretending that secularism is benign and that, largely, secular ethics are humanistic and compatible with Catholic ethics. It is a serious and destructive error.

First Things

Workism is a new word, and it’s a good one. It captures the spirit of our elites, who from childhood are raised to be workers for work’s sake. Work is their priority, their imperative, their strategy, their solution, their delight, their governing ­philosophy.

The Catholic Thing

Today, October 22, 2024, marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Louis Bouyer, the French Catholic priest who is seen as too Progressive by some traditionalist Catholics and too traditional by many liberal Catholics.

First Things

Although the progressive theologians’ guild imagines itself to be the cutting edge of Catholic thought, the guild actually displays a certain atavistic character reminiscent of the Bourbons, as the French dynasty-in-exile was famously described by that slippery character, Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord: “They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”