Orate Fratres

When the Israelites rejected the true worship of God by replacing Him with the Golden Calf, Exodus 32 tells us how the Levitical priesthood ...

Chiesa has a wonderful article on growth of the Church in South Korea. The growth rate is such that adult baptisms are not merely celebr...

Papal Chrism Mass - Holy Thursday, 2012 At every Chrism Mass, the priests of a diocese gather with their bishop as he consecrates the oi...

Community is a very popular word these days. A Latin word sounding very similar to community is also very popular among Catholic theologi...

The Puritans that came to the New World very much saw themselves as the new Israelites coming to a new Promised Land. They were quite fon...

From a wonderful article in the National Catholic Register , Tim Drake writes that we tend to understand, “the foot-washing passage [of ...

Coming on the heels of Cardinal Wuerl’s removal of a Catholic priest because he refused the Eucharist to practicing Buddhist lesbian , anoth...

Maps are very important. Not only can epic stories can be told by pointing to a map, but sometimes data can be conveyed better through a ...

As the healthcare battle moves to the Supreme Court, the Book of Judges (no pun intended) offers us a look back at the Obama presidency. Wh...

In the opening of Dr. Peter Kreeft’s book on Angels (and Demons) , Dr. Kreeft begins by offering us these twelve facts about angels which s...

Morality is carried by personalities . As the contraceptive mandate debate rages, we as Catholics must take this as an opportunity to examin...

We all know that words have meaning. Some words even effect what they signify. Take the words “I love you” or “I hate you” when spoken betwe...

It's been a while since I last viewed this movie, but despite the pacifist-sounding title, I remember it being a profound movie concerni...

The intellectually gifted Fr. Robert Spitzer has made it known that his book New Proofs for the Existence of God is his magnum opus which ...

After the fall of Rome and the limitation of Byzantine power to merely the old eastern Roman Empire, the Papacy found itself able to establi...

Check out this article from the Art of Manliness blog (a site well worth your reading time) regarding several men’s groups in recent histo...

No, the question does not refer to the lack of posts recently. The author of this blog is just getting a very busy month of work – and illne...

Michael Voris over at the Vortex is launching a series of videos on masculinity and he launches the series from my old men's group in M...

Samuel Huntington’s civilizational fault line dividing Africa's Islamic north from the sub-Saharan south ran through one nation in part...

Mary boasts the greatest status among all creatures for she is truly the Mother of God. But to this status, Mary says: Ecce, Fiat, and Magn...