Brick by Brick
Pope Callixtus The aftershocks of yesterday’s midterm report on Synod14 continue to rock the blogosphere, but one of the most interesting things I have read today was actually published on Saturday–two days before the...
Tagged: Pope Francis
By Covetous and Grasping Men
St. Stephen of Hungary The Catholic Thing excerpts a portion of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum and includes a video of him from 1896. Francis is bad, but H. E. Bishop Donald Sanborn gets...
The Two Living Springs of All Our Blessings
Octave of the Sacred Heart Are you, like Thomas Jefferson, too enlightened to believe in the miracles of the Bible? Marcellino D’Ambrosio explores this question in his excellent piece for Catholic Exchange, “The Fourth...
To Dwell in the Quiet of This Heart
Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus “Our love of God has grown cold,” explains H. E. Bishop Donald Sanborn in this 1998 sermon on the need for devotion to the Sacred Heart of...
With a View to the Common Good
St. Silverius Writing for The Imaginative Conservative, Joseph Pearce clarifies the meaning of distributism by putting it in the context of the Catholic principle of subsidiarity. He gives many helpful examples that should resonate...
All Francis Friday
St. Joan of Arc According to this still-developing Novus Ordo Watch report, Francis may be organizing a third Council of Nicea to take place in 2025. Who exactly is Sister Fernanda Barbiero? Rorate has...
All Francis Friday
Just Like a Sporting Event for the Elite: The Eponymous Flower reports in “The Agape of the Courtiers” the news that Francis’ PR lady, Francesca Chaouqui, sold tickets for 18,000 euros for rooftop seats...
All Francis Friday
St. Ubald Francis handpicked the secretary-general of the Italian Episcopal conference, “Bishop” Nunzio Galatino, and now this man has publicly insulted pro-lifers who pray in front of abortion clinics, as detailed here by The...
All Francis Friday
St. Gregory Nazianzus Taking it to the peripheries? Sandro Magister uses Pew Research survey results to show that Francis can’t use Germany’s “ideals” as the basis for changing Church teaching, not that Church teaching...
All Francis Friday
St. Athanasius Sandro Magister compares Francis’ treatment of communion for the divorced and remarried to Paul VI’s handling of contraception and concludes, “The overall effect of Francis’s strategy is a driving crescendo of anticipations...
