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Where Peter Is

Acts of War, Cries for Peace: The President, the Pope, & the Eucharist

This past evening, the United States military bombed Iran. The President of the United States declared the mission a “spectacular military success,” “an operation the likes of which the world has not seen in many, many decades,” and maintained that “Iran’s key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated.” He concluded: And I...

And deliver us from evil

Jean de Florette is my favorite film of all time. Two films really, with its powerful sequel Manon des Sources where Jean’s daughter seeks revenge on the villagers who drove the ‘outsider’ to his early death by depriving his farm of water. The film is adapted from novels by Marcel Pagnol about country...

In the Name of God, War

Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, o ‘Lord, Lord… did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ The most remarkable line of the...

Which Pope said this?

However, if one studies the development of the question of social justice, one cannot fail to note that, whereas during the period between Rerum Novarum and Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno the Church’s teaching concentrates mainly on the just solution of the “labour question” within individual nations, in the next period the Church’s teaching widens its horizon...

Social Justice vs. Private Charity: Must We Choose?

Is Social Justice un-Catholic? Are we better off focusing on personal charity alone? In this video, Pedro Gabriel unpacks a recent controversial article from Word on Fire that claims the Church’s social encyclicals have caused confusion by overstepping into political territory. Using Church teaching, papal encyclicals, and historical context, Pedro debunks three widespread...

Trinity: Fontalis Plenitudo

I read in a recent science magazine article that 99% of the deep ocean bed remains undiscovered. Oceans cover 71% percent of the earth’s surface and they house 99% of the earth’s biosphere. This means that many of our planet’s living organisms are not yet known to us. Similarly, humans only know 5...

Our Sovereign Pontiff

I would willingly have served an authentic master — a royal prince or a king. You can put your two hands folded within those of another and swear faith as a vassal… Of course it’s easy enough to say that many a feudal lord in the past owed his fief to the money-bags...

Charlotte-area Abbot: “Shun the works of darkness and anonymity”

A Charlotte-area Benedictine has weighed in with his reflections on the anonymous letter and leaked document used to attack Bishop Michael Martin following his decision to implement Traditionis Custodes (TC), the 2021 letter from the pope placing restrictions on the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM), in the diocese. Abbot Placid Solari...

Which Pope said this?

Marriage according to Christian Revelation is not a ceremony or a social event, nor a formality. It is not even an abstract ideal: it is a reality with its own precise consistency, not a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. (…) This beautiful...