His meetings with Ratzinger convinced him that he fully understood what was at stake over “the question of the liturgy.”
His meetings with Ratzinger convinced him that he fully understood what was at stake over “the question of the liturgy.”
I consider being a writer less a profession than a vocation.
Above: Modena. On July 8, 1726—three centuries ago—the composer Antonio Maria Bononcini died in Modena, northern Italy. Born in the same city 49 years earlier, he was the younger brother of the more famous Giovanni Bononcini (†1747), remembered above all as a rival of George Frideric Handel (†1759) in England. After studying in Bologna, Antonio…
"This class will push you to grow in your spiritual life and take on new challenges while helping you to understand the state of the Church."
This vow is a little-known fact in her biography.
As I write, it is the very day – 2 July 2026 – upon which, after yesterday’s episcopal consecrations by the SSPX, the Holy See has declared the same SSPX to be schismatic, its bishops excommunicated, their marriages and confessions invalid, and warns clerics and the lay faithful that formal adherence to the SSPX incurs…
"General Washington is the greatest man of the age.”
The consecration took place on the same date on which Leo XIII consecrated the world.
"Let every man be swift to hear, but slow to speak."
"Let us avoid... bitter zeal[.]"
Remembered for confirming the decrees of the Sixth Ecumenical Council.
