Gregory DiPippo

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  • Aug 2, 2021
    The surest sign that a revolution has failed, and chosen to take the easy path, is its fear of the past, its fear of the memory of what life was really like before the...
  • May 3, 2021
    The feast of the Apostle St. Philip is traditionally kept on this day, together with St. James the Younger, a custom which derives from the presence of their relics in the Roman...
  • Mar 31, 2021
    Over the years, many of our readers have expressed to me how encourging they find it to see in our photoposts evidence of the world-wide movement to rediscover and preserve our...
  • Feb 26, 2021
    In the Breviary of St Pius V, the following rubric is placed before Vespers of Ash Wednesday. "Today and the following two days, Vespers are said at the accustomed hour. But on...
  • Feb 1, 2021
    January 28th is traditionally the day of the "Second Feast of St Agnes", although this very ancient observance was reduced to a commemoration in 1931, and abolished in the...
  • Jan 28, 2021
    Among the group of early Christian writers known as the Apostolic Fathers, St Polycarp, whose feast is kept today on the traditional Roman calendar, is the one about whom we know the...