New video out now on purgatory. Go watch! youtu.be/rIhJ7NblE6w

Someone should make one of those cool leather bound versions of this...I would shill it to everyone

There's a long line of Anglican theologians defending the Virgin Mary's unique splendour, from the Caroline Divines to more recent figures like Mascall, Allchin, and de Satge; but many comments about her on r/Anglicanism sound like they could've been written by KJVO Baptists. Sad

Before becoming Catholic, and praying a daily Rosary, I saw marriage and sex as a necessity. Anything less would indicate some sort of problem. After praying a daily Rosary for many months (it’s now been years) and entering the sacramental life of the Church, my heart simply

Actually, the most important documents of Pope Francis's pontificate are Divine Worship: Daily Office and Divine Worship: The Missal Boomer Catholics could finally acknowledge a tradition that is living and developing, rather than frozen in the '70s Our Lady of Walsingham, OPN!

There is a lot of this essay I agree with. Robert P. George is very right that there are a lot of magisterial statements on Jews which are being entirely ignored by popular influencers. The ongoing reality of Jewish people, including their practice of Judaism, is part of God's

Never blackpill!

Pope Leo XIV holding back the tears at the Consecration at Mass this morning in Castel Gandolfo.

The Church is the New Jerusalem which descends from heaven, not of this world, but in still in this world, bringing lifegiving waters which renews the face of the earth. There was a very serious error which dominated much of conservative Catholic life until recently: the

The Bodily Assumption of the Virgin is a difficult, near-impossible dogma to defend from the historical record. Here, I attempt to show why that’s an improper approach to dogma, and why the Catholic approach is actually superior to the Protestant one. youtu.be/c6mQwU2dpiw?si…

My favorite part about the sociology of this is that the Greeks were lazier and less economically sophisticated than the generally Italian latins and so could not economically compete with them. This caused a lot of resentment. Moreover the expulsion and slaughter of the latins

I have no 'hot take' about this...there really shouldn't be any. Everything he said was correct. We cannot see into his heart, so it is crucial to guard ourselves against the opposed vices of rashness or credulity.

Because those things are significantly easier to do than actually growing in the spiritual life, which requires the grace of God and suffering.

“Laymen should also know that it is generally the function of their well-formed Christian conscience to see that the divine law is inscribed in the life of the earthly city; from priests they may look for spiritual light and nourishment.” - Gaudium et spes 43

Pope Leo giving some marching orders to the bishops of the Amazon… and not mincing words either. We must not take evangelization lightly.

"The pontificate of Leo XIV is characterized by Christocentrism. He always speaks of the Lord and His Church. It is important that the Church is not reduced to an NGO." (Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke in an interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, August 18)

"So, uh, we know that the Assyrians literally flayed alive any king who led a rebellion against them, but, uh, Sennacherib just gave up when they laid siege to Jerusalem and let Hezekiah off easy for, uh, reasons. An angel totally didn't slay 185,000 Assyrian troops."