Annuntio vobis gaudium…

… well, perhaps not quite so magnum, but good news nevertheless. I am pleased to announce that I have been accepted to a Catholic seminary to study for the priesthood.  As the seminary is in a foreign country, and as the notice came a bit late, I have been in a mad scramble to get many…

An Important Reminder for Friday

A reminder to all, that tomorrow, Friday the third of June, is the Feast of the Sacred Heart.  I once thought this devotion was a sappy and effeminate celebration of wuvvy-duvvy Geezus (and, as an Orthodox Christian at the time, a kind of “crypto-Nestorianism”).  But the devotion to the Sacred Heart is rooted in sublime…

Virgo Mediatrix

As we bring the month of May, Mary’s month, to a close, I thought I would honor her here while also replying to a question I received about her role as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix. Many misunderstand this role, of course. The Scriptures are clear that “there is but one Mediator between God and man, the…

The Reactionary and the Magisterium

Mark Citadel put up a great article over at his site. By way of commenting generally, both upon it and some of the issues that arose in the comments, I would say that, insofar as Reactionary politics is subject to ideological manipulation and human failing, of course it is subject to the teaching authority of…