Epidemic Danger and Catholic Sacraments

by Thomas Joseph White

That the Church should suspend public masses temporarily is defensible as the most reasonable course of action given the unpredictable nature of the coronavirus. Continue Reading »

9 Apr 2020

By Bread Alone

by Mark Bauerlein

Figures in politics and media are incognizant of how much religion plays a part in people's well-being. Continue Reading »

8 Apr 2020

Easter Without Mass?

by Douglas Farrow

I have yet to learn how asking everyone to remain at home at Easter is an extraordinary measure proper to the Church.  Continue Reading »

7 Apr 2020

The Case For Drive-In Masses

by Gregory Pine, O.P.

If online Mass becomes a regular practice over the course of months, it could subtly undermine the local, communal, and cultic dimensions of Catholic worship.  Continue Reading »

2 Apr 2020

Failed Leaders

by R. R. Reno

Suicides among Americans aged ten to twenty-four increased by more than 50 percent between 2007 and 2017. The suicide rate for all ages rose by nearly 30 percent between 1999 and 2016. This is not an isolated trend. Life expectancy in the United States is falling, a shocking trend for a rich . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Dec 2019

Christ-Haunted George Saunders

by Joshua Hren

Though George Saunders may have formally left the Church, its forms didn’t leave him. Continue Reading »

25 Mar 2019

Cheap Joy

by Kenneth Colston

The Resurrection without Holy Week would be pie-in-the-sky and cheap joy.  Continue Reading »

4 May 2018

Pope Benedict's Red Thread

by Martin Mosebach

Whenever we have the good fortune to participate in a traditional Mass, we will have Pope Benedict XVI to thank.  Continue Reading »

10 Aug 2017

The Wild of the Mass

by Brian Doyle

Only say the word and I shall be healed. Isn’t that the most humble unadorned thing you can say about faith? Don’t you always say that with a shiver in your heart? The hair prickles on my head sometimes when I say that. Continue Reading »

22 Sep 2016

Dear Father: Please Stop It

by George Weigel

In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm 22.3 of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy? Which, in case you’ve forgotten, teaches that “no . . . person, not even a priest, may add, remove, or change anything . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Jan 2016