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March 2019

March 08, 2019

The duty to teach: the Chair of Saint Peter

There is a book by Antonio Rosmini that perhaps few people know, partly because the...

March 06, 2019

Theodore of Mopsuestia and theological controversies

The life of Theodore of Mopsuestia (or Theodore the Interpreter, 350-428) started in that fatal...

March 02, 2019

Synesius of Cyrene and Neoplatonism

Synesius of Cyrene (373-414), was a disciple of the celebrated philosopher Hypathia, a woman who...

October 2018

October 09, 2018

The superficial joy contained in Many Modern Church Songs

The joy expressed in Gregorian chant is contained and austere, a joy with gravitas. It...

October 05, 2018

A great Christian hymnographer: Ephrem the Syrian

Ephrem the Syrian (306-373) was an important writer, hymnographer and theologian in the IV century. ...

March 2018

March 07, 2018

Rethinking education

There is no doubt that there is something wrong with education in the way we...

March 05, 2018

Migrants and Catholic Church: is there something wrong?

"When a country receives in massive proportions people that bring with them a culture and...

March 02, 2018

Three ways to understand if a liturgical composition make sense

Let us not forget that the essential nature of music (and of worship music) is...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

Five reasons why Latin should not be abandoned

There were many talks about the usefulness of Latin language in the catholic liturgy in...

February 22, 2018

Catholic Church real enemy

Following the confidences of the Jesuit Father Silvano Fausti, who passed away not long ago,...

February 21, 2018

For the Sister that trained me to pray in Latin

"Dear Sister, I don't even know if you are still alive or not. You may...

August 2016

August 13, 2016

Aurelio Porfiri’s Organ improvisation

A short Organ improvisation by Aurelio Porfiri, recorded in Rome on May 2016.

August 09, 2016

On Amoris Laetitia – An interview with Professor Joseph Shaw

A group of Catholic theologians were concerned about the effect Amoris laetitia(AL) has been having...

August 07, 2016

The Pope and the Media

I mean, how logical that is, the center of it all have to be Christ.

August 06, 2016

Cardinal Sarah

In the movie Braveheart it has been said: "Your heart is free, have the courage...

August 05, 2016

Cultural identity

Is it natural that I should feel affected in the same way from tragedies that...

August 04, 2016

Souls in exile

I cannot stand the approximation of the liturgies...

August 03, 2016

Our Lady of Carmel

I was always intrigued by the attitude of some people towards the Virgin Mary...

July 2016

July 21, 2016

Blessed Pius IX and Pope Francis

I have mixed feelings about Pope Francis...

July 20, 2016

The countryside little Church

The real liturgical song culminates in silence...

July 19, 2016

Ad Orientem

Now the Mass celebrated in an average parish is considered normative...

July 17, 2016

The other Leopardi

I think that reading this author with some interest would certainly only be of benefit...

July 16, 2016

Moments of life

Maybe there are times when the truth escapes us...

July 15, 2016

Tu es sacerdos in aeternum

And we, in our own way, we are also certainly miserable.

July 13, 2016

Latin lover

The purpose of the liturgy is the glory of God and, as a result, the...

July 08, 2016

Two or three things on Liturgical Music

Liturgical music is not used to please us but to raise us.

July 07, 2016

When the music change (really) life

I felt useful this morning, I realized even more that music can really change lives...

July 06, 2016

In Praise of the Golden Mean

For a select few it was possible to dominate themselves to the point until they...

July 05, 2016

Catholicism’s Symbolic Universe

This was one of the great "crimes" of the last decades, the systematic suppression of...

July 04, 2016

The Lion of Hong Kong

The Cardinal definitely not meant to suggest that it is good to disobey the Holy...