Orate Fratres

The shepherds interposing themselves between the wolves and the sheep. G. K. Chesterton said that every great story has a beauty, a drag...

When considering the possibility of Communion received in the hand rather than on the tongue, the Holy See pointed out “certain dangers” of ...

Cardinal Arinze with his longtime friend and ecclesial brother, Pope Benedict XVI. The great Nigerian prelate Cardinal Arinze is not onl...

As the European debt crisis intensifies, Uncommon Knowledge’s Peter Robinson interviewed British columnist James Delingpole who said in the...

When Americans think of the 4th of July, what first comes to mind are such things like family picnics, smores, and fireworks. Perhaps after ...

Plato and Aristotle both reasoned that the size of the polis – the Greek city-state – should be roughly 5,000 men in number. They came to th...

As Phillip Lawler points out , a war with no long-term objectives and no clear allies leaves us with the question, “who are we fighting for?...

Although the Easter season concluded a few days ago on the feast of Pentecost, today is a worthy day to recall once more that image of the...

While Harvard geopoliticist  Samuel Huntington defined America’s identity  as white, Protestant, and English-speaking, the United States is...

There is a deep and profound connection between patriotism and women. When God placed Adam in the Garden he was given the duty “to till and ...

If you've ever wondered how the map of Europe has evolved over the course of a thousand years, check out this video below:

In his book, Religion, Sex, & Politics , Dr. David Pence describes the civil rights movement as a train carrying African American’s to f...

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 ...