Meier, Michael, Der Papst der Enttäuschungen: Warum Franziskus kein Reformer ist (The Pope of Disapointments: Why Francis is no Reformer) Verlag Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2024 What does the progressive establishment think of Francis? You would think their evaluation should be entirely favorable. After all, under the Woke Pope (Newsweek) there’s virtual identity now between the positions […]

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…with one of her best posts: Pope Francis, the Venice Biennale and the Vaccuum of Belief Regarding patronage of the arts by the Roman Catholic Church, in the last few years attention had centered on the pseudo-Byzantine kitsch of the notorious Fr. Marko Rupnik. He is, by the way, still very active and in good […]

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A Defence of Monarchy: Catholics under a Protestant King Joseph Shaw, Ed. 186 pages Angelico Press, Brooklyn, NY, 2023 A Defence of Monarchy is one of the shorter books on Catholic political philosophy that I have recently read,  but it certainly is one of the best written, most colorful in its language and most challenging in […]

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Today I heard the sad news that Fr. John Hunwicke had died on Tuesday, April 30th. He was a member of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. So many of us became acquainted with him on his blog Mutual Enrichment. An untiring champion of orthodoxy, Latinity and traditional culture, Fr Hunwicke offered a running […]

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In the latest issue (May 2024) of his Catalyst Bill Donohue finally lowers the boom on Francis: Pope’s Rating Tanking Why are Catholics who are the most practicing also the least happy with Francis? We know from virtually every survey that these Catholics are mostly orthodox, and it is likely that they are also more […]

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