Category: Essays

Ballasts in Peter’s storm–tossed bark

20 November 2014

Maria Fortunata Viti: A Nearly–Forgotten Benedictine Blessed Today is the feast of a now nearly–forgotten Benedictine Blessed: Maria Fortunata Viti. Back in October 1967, at...

Do what you can, and ask for what you cannot

16 November 2014

A Pastoral Query Answered There was in the October 22, 2014 Responsum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to a French priest’s...

Liturgy, Doctrine, and Discipline: the Right Order

7 November 2014

Speaking in Vienna this week, His Eminence, Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke said, “The Church’s discipline can never be other than true to her doctrine.” His...

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