Analyzing Fr. Schmidberger's "excellent statement" by Michael Hoffman The district superior of Bishop Richard Williamson's "SSPX" priest's order in Germany, Fr. Franz Schmidberger, has issued a statement to the German bishops as reported on March 6. He is the portion of his text that interests this ...

Three years ago, in a post entitled "Giving the Devil his due" (Musings, February 13, 2006), I described my encounter with Catholic students and parents who were surprised to learn that the Catholic baptismal rite contains a minor exorcism -- one, in some cases, which they witnessed unwittingly (app...

Art has the power to teach. Back in the Medieval Era, the majority of Christendom was made up of hardworking and illiterate peasants who nonetheless were devout and pious Catholics. How did a father and a mother teach their children the truths of the Faith without so much as a catechism manual or Ho...

I know Sarah will like this... With great Italian devotion, St. Padre Pio was exhumed last night to be prepared for public veneration during April, marking the 40th anniversary of his death and the 90th anniversary of the first appearance of the controversial stigmata. Times Online's relays: The exh...