Today's “new spirituality," often found within the Church, is an ugly caricature of the millennial truths of union with God set forth by the Church, her saints, and her Doctors.

Where Christ once declared victory in the red blood of His Cross, the Synodalists bleat in the pastels of accommodation.

No Catholic is permitted to surrender the duty of his citizenship to a sullen despair, exaggerated analyses of decline, idiosyncratic critiques of democracy, or a cynical secession from his duties.

In the Synodal Sessions, the Faith's majesty is trampled upon, then traded for the cheap trinkets of the best psychobabble money can buy.

While Recreational Catholicism—the tangled knot of the therapeutic, political, theatrical, and ego-massaging trend besetting the Church—has had its day, we are now on the cusp of a resurrection.

The tragedy was not the outrageous blasphemy. It was the absence of howling outrage.

A perfect metaphor for the classical priest is Hercules.

Echoes of the Holy Trinity ring out in the hearts of fathers. Failing to appreciate this leaves them prey to the cultural vandals.

In the Most Holy Eucharist, we meet Christ physically. This astonishing mystery causes us to fall to our knees, or should, unless we have suffered a fatal breach of faith.

In this 48th year of his priesthood, we celebrate with Fr. John Perricone the joy of his priesthood and what he has brought to many of his friends in the upholding of Catholic dogma.

Why is Our Savior so frightful about those seeking “signs and wonders”’? For these are the demands of those men who seek the compensations of this world rather than the rewards of the next.

Secularism tries to turn this world into a atheistic heaven. Our only defense against this lie is the Ascended Christ.

A New Idea of Lent has invaded the entire Church. A gauzy altruism has taken the place of a rigorous program of penance and prayer.

Our Faith is about swords, not hand-holding. Those swords are first directed at our sins, and then directed at the evils in the world and in our Church.

What is absent in enthusiasm is a humility before the example of the saints, who never prayed with external display or manic delirium but always with a calm and chastened manner.

The traditional Latin Mass held at the U.S. Capitol last week was a Jericho-Walls-crumbling moment.

Last year's Synod on Synodality was a moment of Magical Thinking, bearing no resemblance to historic Christianity.

I am not much for panegyrics, but this one is long overdue.

From The Administrator’s Desk, November 9, 2003

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