Showing the way
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Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone
San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone is insisting that Catholic schools in his archdiocese actually promo...
They Said It…
“Interior listening” and liturgy
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Carthusian Rite Confiteor, photo from New Liturgical Movement.
"In a culture which neither favors nor fosters meditative quiet, the art of interior listenin...
Immaculate Conception
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As a merciful Mother, Mary is the anticipated figure and everlasting portrait of the Son. Thus, we see that the image of the Sorrowful Virgin, of the Mother who...
Purgatory’s Fire
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Virgin of Carmel Saving Souls in Purgatory, 17th century, unknown artist.
His gaze, the touch of his heart, heals us through an undeniably painful transformat...
The Battle
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Saint George and the Dragon
But in this generation, like so many others, people have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea...
Continuity
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Pope Francis offering Mass “ad orientem” on the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord, January 12, 2014 (photo courtesy of the Facebook page of Msgr. Guido Marini)....
More Than a Museum
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Michelangelo's Last Judgement
In every age the Church has called upon the arts to give expression to the beauty of her faith and to proclaim the Gospel messag...
Embrace the Tradition
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Pope Benedict XVI, photo source, Kyodo
"Uninterrupted Tradition is not traditionalism, because this Tradition is always enlivened from within by the Holy Sp...
Against “the tyranny of ugliness”
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This summer, Catholics mark the seventh anniversary of Pope Benedict's motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum, which granted unrestricted access to the traditional L...
“The Christian ethic”
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Christ and the Samaritan Woman by Giovanni Domenico Cerrini
"The Christian ethic is not born from a system of commandments but is a consequence of our frien...