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The third installment of my series “Mysticism and Magisterium” is up over at SpiritutualDirection.com. Links to all three posts in the series can be found here. Filed under: Catholicism, Church, Holy Father, Religion…

Rorate Caeli recently “broke” the story of the suspensions of six clerics of our Institute who left their religious houses without permission in order to take “refuge” with “understanding bishops.”  There are several things to…

A blessed Feast of Our Lady of Victory. On the Solemnity of St. Francis the seminarians and I went to the prayer vigil of the Holy Father in preparation for the synod, which…

I wrote about ninety percent of the following essay more than half a year ago and then left it unfinished for some reason, which I don’t remember.  I thought it worthwhile to finish and…

Ave Maria! Sorry, I had to re-post this from yesterday since the video that it was linked to did not show up in the original. I am not sure what is about, but…

That Pope Francis would have executed the synod in the manner in which he did was predictable from many things he has said over the course of his papacy, including Evangelii Gaudium, esp.…

My friend Kevin O’Brien over at Waiting for Godot to Leave, has kindly given me permission to cross-post his excellent essay “Approaching what is Real: Don Quixote, God, and the Rest of Us.”  I…

This is just to let those who might be interested that I am still here.  I am studying for my licentiate in theology at the Angelicum and have taken a pretty heavy load.…

I want to take a moment to ask for prayers for the repose of the soul of one of our earliest and most faithful tertiaries in the United States, Brother Martin, a.k.a.,  Alex…

Inés San MartínFiled under: Catholicism, Church, News, Religion Tagged: Conservatives, Inés San Martín, Mary Ann Glendon, Pope Francis, Robert P. George From MaryVictrix.com

Today, the First Sunday in Advent, November 30, 2014, Pope Francis released a message inaugurating the Year for Consecrated Life, which will end on February 2, 2016, the Feast of the Presentation. In…

First Things just posted an excellent post by William Doino, “The Pope’s True Agenda.”   It is necessary reading, because it it is a well documented piece showing that Pope Francis doesn’t fit into any of…

The latest conspiracy theory concerning the resignation of Pope Benedict goes like this: a group cardinals lobbying for Cardinal Bergoglio went to Pope Benedict and convinced him to retire because they had someone,…

I have expressed my concerns about Catholic Internet culture many times before. Mostly it appears to be a problem with some bloggers, who seem to transform into a fiend returned from the dead…

The blog Rorate Caeli has leveled a new accusation against the authority of the Institute of the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate.  In a recent post there, the blogger makes the accusation that the…