Muslim Ramadan or Christian Lent?
BY Roberto de Mattei
In Corriere della Sera of 13 March 2025, we read a report from England by the journalist Luigi Ippolito, who…
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The spirit of Lent in Jubilee years
BY Roberto de Mattei
Most people are unaware of or have forgotten what Lent is. Yet the Catechism of Pope Saint Pius X was…
READ MOREThe law of the stronger: God first!
BY Roberto de Mattei
While the 266th successor of Peter is fighting against death in a room of the Gemelli Hospital, two of the…
READ MOREYalta, 1945: the Western betrayal
BY Roberto de Mattei
Eighty years ago, from 4 to 11 February 1945, the heads of the three powers allied against Nazism — Franklin…
READ MOREThe Church’s holiness and the scandals within
BY Roberto de Mattei
As theologians explain, the Church founded by Jesus Christ is the Kingdom of God in this world, the fulfilment of…
READ MORECristina Campo and the world of tradition
BY Roberto de Mattei
The profound crisis afflicting the Church is traced by many to the reign of Pope Francis, interpreted as a radical…
READ MOREUS president Donald Trump and The Force of Destiny
BY Roberto de Mattei
The tone of Donald Trump’s inaugural address at the White House on 20 January 2025 was one of comeback and…
READ MOREThe miraculous conversion of Alphonse Ratisbonne
BY Roberto de Mattei
Everyone knows about the Marian shrines of Loreto and Pompeii, and, in Rome, the great basilicas, but not everyone knows…
READ MOREThe Jubilee, Archbishop Fisichella and La Tenda di Gionata
BY Roberto de Mattei
On 24 December, with the opening of the Holy Door of St Peter’s, Pope Francis inaugurated the 2025 Jubilee. The…
READ MOREA world crumbles, Notre Dame rises again
BY Roberto de Mattei
The Syrian revolution appears to be a new tile of that piecemeal Third World War which is the new world…
READ MORESaint Lucy: light in the darkness of our time
BY Roberto de Mattei
13 December is the feast of St Lucy, virgin and martyr. Lucy, patroness of Syracuse, is one of the three…
READ MOREHoly intransigence
BY Roberto de Mattei
Intransigence is the firmness with which one defends one’s ideas. It is holy when these ideas are religious; not of…
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