In 1945, Louis Budenz – a Communist activist and managing editor of the party’s newspaper The Daily Worker – was received back into the Catholic Church by Fulton Sheen. The two men had met earlier because Sheen had been publishing devastating…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV0mpAq4OpM Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal examine growing questions over the direction of synodality as bishops and cardinals call on Rome to finally define what it means—and whether the…
We recently reached the 250th anniversary (a quarter-millennium) of the dominant nation and culture of our time – and of one of the greatest countries in world history. Yet just a few weeks later, you’d hardly know it. And only a month ago,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjIKg1K0fWM A bishop takes aim at the growing “celebrity pope” culture following Pope Leo’s private audience with Patti Smith. Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal examine whether high-profile…
In the Mile End Road, opposite to the London Hospital, there was . . . a vacant greengrocer’s which was to let. The whole of the front of the shop, with the exception of the door, was hidden by a hanging sheet of canvas on which was the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaEetpit6h0 As debate over the Traditional Latin Mass intensifies, questions continue to surround Pope Leo’s intentions. Is the Vatican quietly moving toward a more generous approach, or are conflicting statements…
This week on The Prayerful Posse, Raymond Arroyo, Fr. Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal examine the Vatican’s ongoing agreement with Communist China, a challenge by 26 German priests over same-sex blessings, Pope Leo’s message to young…
I don’t often comment on films or – truth be told – usually care much about them. I leave that to those who do care and are much better at it. (See under: Miner, Brad.) Most movies seem, to me, to have a greater cultural impact than they…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHyRuSliWak The Prayerful Posse tackles another week of major developments in the Catholic Church and around the world. This week, Raymond Arroyo, Father Gerald Murray, and Robert Royal examine the SSPX’s…
I recently attended the funeral of a young man who died tragically. It happened to be a solemn high Traditional Latin Mass, entirely licit and even affirmed by the presence of our local bishop, his retired predecessor, and a couple dozen…
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