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To the good readers of Oratre Fratres , I must apologize for the recent lack of blogging! As the image above indicates, the author of this...

The Harrowing of Hell Catholics who recite the Apostles Creed in Mass no longer say that Christ descended to the dead . The new translat...

Several months ago, Orate Fratres posted a story about the biblical Barack of Judges 4 . As our present day Barack presses for gay marri...

While we typically associate the Celts with the green countryside of Ireland, the Celtic peoples used to be the most dominant ethnic group o...

There are many ways to categorize the sacraments. The most common approach, as found in the Catechism of the Catholic Church , is to group B...

While Vatican II is rightly described as revolutionary, scholar Russell Hittinger ( University of Tulsa ) and writer John O’Malley ( What ...

The map above may look familiar. Although it dates from the 2000 election, it could very well mirror the coming electoral map of 2012. A 2...

As America prepares to watch the final Presidential debate prior to Election Day, the focus has shifted to American foreign policy – particu...

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...