Today the sun rose at 06:10 and it will set at 20:06. But that’s in Rome, not in Columbia Heights.
The Ave Maria Bell is still in the 20:15 slot for the Curia.
It is the Feast of the great Jesuit St. Peter Canisius, Doctor.
What would St. Peter Canisius say about his Jesuit brethren today? I mean by and large, not the few exceptions to the rule of corruptio optimi pessima.
On this note, I send you to Crisis to read a piece by Fr. Pericone inspired … provoked… by the absurd Jesuit Thomas Reese’s lamentations about the wrong kind of young person coming into the Church. HERE
Pericone has a line that herks precisely to what seminarians who believed in God and weren’t sodomites had to do in seminary in the 1980’s:
Like skilled CIA agents trained in the art of subterfuge, these new seminarians listen respectfully to the bloodless drone of the Seminary grandees, then they repair to the enthralling pages of St. Thomas Aquinas, the arresting invitations of St. Francis de Sales, or the rousing exhortations of Blessed Pius IX, Pope Leo XIII, and St. Pius X. After attendance at the anemic seminary “liturgies” (or worse), they surreptitiously squeeze into their cars to search for the closest Traditional Mass.
Mutatis mutandis… it’s the same as it was back in the day. I used to describe it as being in the officers school of the Enemy.
But here is something even more absurd than the increasingly irrelevant Reese.
It’s hard to formulate for this blog’s readership what I would like to say.
JUST IN: Vatican releases photos of Pope Leo XIV’s meeting today with Sarah Mullally. In his address to her, the Pope noted that: “While much progress has been made on some historically divisive issues, new problems have arisen in recent decades, rendering the pathway to full… pic.twitter.com/Ng9ZhIsGrl
— Diane Montagna (@dianemontagna) April 27, 2026
I just can’t…
It’s white’s move. Mate in 4. Do it.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
