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Month: May 2022

The Long and the Short of It

Every few months, I receive a message from one or another of our readers thanking us for The Catholic Thing,…

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May. 16 Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter, Weekday

Entrance Antiphon:The Good Shepherd has risen, who laid down his life for his sheep and willingly died for his flock, alleluia. Today’s Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Ubaldus, Bishop of Gubbio. He is remembered in central Italy as a Bishop who was …

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Vandals plague Brussels basilica (Kerknet (Dutch))

Vandals have broken more than 40 windows in the Koekelberg basilica in Brussels recently, and the walls of the building had been sprayed with paint.
The vandals—as yet unidentified—have thrown stones through windows over a period of severa…

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Fifth Sunday of Easter, and Augustine’s Tale of Two Cities

I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out heaven from God…and I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘See, the home of God among men. He will dwell with them as their God; they will be his people, and God himself will be with them’ (Rev. 21:2-3). ⧾ With these[…]

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If Ye Love Me

While on the theme of the moral law, here is a 1565 motet by Thomas Tallis, If Ye Love Me, which advocates, as the text continues, ‘keep my commandments’. This was at the height of the Protestant ‘reformation’, and may have been the ‘unreformed Roman Catholic’ Tallis’ subtle rebuke to the antinomianism implicit in Luther’s[…]

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Les Poètes Maudits and Their Bitter Fruits

One of the fastest growing ‘religious’ demographic in the West are the ‘nones’, and I put that in scare quotes, since these are those who espouse no religion, with an indifference to any form of organized worship, who may confess to a vague spirituality, but one of this world, a seeking after self-fulfillment, one that[…]

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