Saint Joseph and the Conclave of May 2025
BY Roberto de Mattei
In the third week after Easter, the Church’s liturgy reminds us of how the risen Jesus consolidates the nascent Church…
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The death of Pope Francis (2013–2025): end of an era?
BY Roberto de Mattei
At 7:35 on Easter Monday, 21 April 2025, the soul of Jorge Mario separated from his mortal body to present…
READ MOREInternational crises: the Church is never neutral
BY Roberto de Mattei
The situation in the world today is so intricate as to require great tranquillity of spirit and clarity of mind…
READ MOREFrom Yalta to Moscow: 1945–2025
BY Roberto de Mattei
The spectre of the Yalta conference hovers over Europe while international observers consider the possibility of an end to the…
READ MOREMuslim 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…
READ MOREThe 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…
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