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The liturgy of the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost places a mirror before the soul and asks a question which cannot be evaded by ecclesiastical position, good intentions, or outward appearance: what fruit is being borne? The Epistle, Gospel, chants, Collect, and Postcommunion converge upon the same point. There are two servitudes, two harvests, two ends. Sin pays wages, and th...

Above: Michael Davies (left) with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at a general assembly of Una Voce. Photo credit: Una Voce. As a 25-year-old who had just entered the seminary, I lacked the proper vocabulary to articulate my dissatisfaction with Catholic liturgical life as I experienced it. I was born in 1965, the last year of the Second Vatican Council, and so had lived my Catholi...

Kindly invited by Mr. Timothy Flanders, I have been asked to write about the writer’s labors. The very word labors is a useful reminder of the famous Labors of Hercules. Sometimes, a writer’s difficulties and challenges transform his work into a long succession of challenges—not merely twelve, but perhaps dozens, hundreds, or even thousands. Most of these remain hidden from t...

Above: Modena. On July 8, 1726—three centuries ago—the composer Antonio Maria Bononcini died in Modena, northern Italy. Born in the same city 49 years earlier, he was the younger brother of the more famous Giovanni Bononcini (†1747), remembered above all as a rival of George Frideric Handel (†1759) in England. After studying in Bologna, Antonio began his career in Naples and ...

We’re announcing the deadline has been extended to AUGUST 21 for next year’s courses at Mary, Queen of the Home Academy. The heart of our program is the four year “Faith of Our Fathers” spiritual formation track which integrates history, catechesis, spiritual formation along with politics, economics, social history and even art and music! Last year we did the CREDO course, an...