“Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world, is the concupiscence of the flesh, and the concupiscence of the eyes, and the pride of life, which is not of …

    “We believed that after the [Second Vatican] Council would come a day of sunshine in the history of the Church. But instead there has come a day of clouds and storms, and of darkness … “And how did this come about? We will confide to you the thought that maybe we ourselves admit …

I haven’t been a Catholic for very long, to be honest. I was lucky or perhaps blessed that, when I was in RCIA, our program director was an inadvertently tradition-minded permanent Deacon. I say tradition minded not in the sense that he promoted that Tridentine Mass; rather, he would seamlessly insert traditional Catholic teachings about …