From the Rorate Caeli Twitter: Re-read many years later, Fritz Fischer’s “Germany’s Aims in the First World War” (Griff nach der Weltmacht) seems even more convincing: it reads like a thriller, a very well-documented thriller. Highly recommended. Griff nach der Weltmacht (The Bid for( or “Grasp after”) World Power) is one of the foundational works […]

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By Fr. Richard Cipolla Brethren, I make known unto you the Gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received and wherein you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first […]

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Good news: The Cathedral Parish in Bridgeport, CT now has the Latin Mass on the schedule 7 days a week, including 3 sung Masses a week: Monday through Friday at 7 am at St. Patrick Church: Low Mass – Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday; Sung Mass – Thursday Saturday, 9 am at St. Augustine Cathedral, Sung […]

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It is reported that, without publicity, the K of C have severed (or downsized?) their “partnership” with Crux – the voice of Bergoglio in the United States. As we recall:. The Knights of Columbus and Crux are pleased to announce that they plan to enter into a partnership in which Crux will remain an independent […]

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Sermon for Pentecost IX by Father Richard Cipolla From the gospel of St. Matthew:  Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.  And from today’s epistle from Paul to the Corinthians:  Let no temptation take hold on you, but such as is human: and God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above […]

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(Above and below) The somewhat arid appearance today of the late Gothic Frauenkirche in Munich, Germany. Reformers took the opportunity of repairing severe wartime damage to carry out a wholesale housecleaning. “They got rid of all the junk!” an otherwise esteemed professor told me gleefully once in my student days at Georgetown. It now turns […]

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A Response to George Weigel By Father Richard G. Cipolla Recently George Weigel offered an Op-Ed titled  “A Paradox for the Next Pope” as part of the Wall Street Journal’s Houses of Worship series.  He quite rightly calls attention to several issues that will confront the successor of Pope Francis:  confronting and ending the terrible scandal of sexual […]

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  “Thirteen years after naming a new residence hall at Loyola University Maryland in honor of the Catholic author Flannery O’Connor, Jesuit Fr. Brian Linnane, the university’s president, removed the writer’s name from the building. Concerns about her use of racist language in private correspondence prompted more than 1,000 people to sign an online petition […]

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