Why children need real heroes and true history...
John Clark
Some claim that the main reason to learn history is to avoid the past mistakes of others. While there is admittedly some benefit to learning history for that reason, this is nevertheless a merely negative prohibition. But from a Catholic perspective—from a human perspective—the main reason to study history has a superlatively positive motivation. It is to learn virtue.

How extraordinary is the Extraordinary Form? The frequency of the ‘usus antiquior,’ analyzed...

Let’s study the impact of the Traditional Latin Mass...
Janet Smith
In Traditionis Custodes (Guardians of the Tradition), the motu proprio that sets out provisions for curtailing the availability of the Mass based on the 1962 Missal promulgated by Pope St. John XXIII (here referred to as the traditional Latin Mass), Pope Francis states that his decisions are based on consultations with bishops worldwide (the results of which have never been made public).

EWTN’s Catholic News Agency names veteran journalist Shannon Mullen as editor-in-chief...

Ties that bind? Concerning journalism, Grindr, secrecy, ‘homophobia’ and the Latin Mass...
Terry Mattingly
Early in my religion-beat career, a veteran Catholic leader gave me wise advice about the challenges reporters would face covering the emerging national scandals about sexual abuse by bishops and priests. Never forget, he said, that these scandals are not about “left vs. right.” Plenty of people, across the whole spectrum of Catholic life, have secrets in the past and some in the present.

Many Catholics who felt lost after Vatican II found comfort in the Latin Mass. Now, they are hurting again...
Rachel Lu
There were many exorcisms at my baptism. I gasped when the deacon showed me the text. It was several pages thick, packed with stern rebukes for the minions of Satan. Infant baptisms are relatively brief in the extraordinary form, but adult converts get a more thorough cleansing. “It makes sense,” I laughingly told a friend. “The demons have had more time to work on me.”

The indicted Cardinal Becciu has now filed (or threatened to file) around 10 lawsuits against media outlets and other critics...
John Allen
Though it hardly made a dent in the weekend’s news cycle given Pope Francis’s bombshell crackdown on the Latin Mass, Italian Cardinal Angelo Becciu announced his latest lawsuit Saturday, in this case suing an Italian newspaper called La Verità for defamation over a report regarding movements of money in Becciu’s home diocese in Sardinia.

A cry from the heart about ‘Traditionis Custodes’ and the Latin Mass...
Msgr. Charles Pope
I must say that I am grieved and stunned by this document and the letter to the bishops that accompanied it. I think not so much of my own potential loss but of the many Catholics I have served who love the extraordinary form. For so long and in so many places they have often been treated harshly and have been marginalized for their love for the form of the liturgy that most of the saints knew.

Traditional Latin Mass, Canada’s residential schools, fear of schism, and Father James Martin’s alarm at The Pillar story...
Phil Lawler
Horrified by today’s blockbuster story from Pillar, the ubiquitous Father James Martin, SJ, worries that if Catholic journalists are going to investigate cell-phone usage, we should all be worried. Why? If you could obtain my cell-phone records, you’d find them mighty boring. Why would someone assume that there’s damaging information in anyone’s private records?

USCCB general secretary Msgr. Jeffrey Burrill resigns after sexual misconduct allegations based on smartphone app data...

Do your children a favor — be a burden on them. They will thank you for it in Heaven...

How to stop being an internet glutton — tips from a 4th-century monk John Cassian...

11 children of Apollo astronauts and flight directors talk about what it was like when their dads went on business trips to the moon...

Who was the mysterious man who “ran away naked” from Gethsemane?

Someone built a high-speed 360-degree camera, and the results are mesmerizing...

Noelle Mering: How Christians should respond to the Woke revolution...

This Sunday, let’s interrupt Our Lord’s rest...