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Jonah on a stained-glass window. Lawrence Lew OP, CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0, here. The Book of Jonah is a well-known biblical book in which God sends a prophet named Jonah to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, the…

Corpus Christi celebrations by the Dominicans in Oxford in 2010. Image by Lawrence Lew OP, CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0, here. In 1969, “Pope Paul VI” issued the “New Mass”, also known as the “Novus Ordo Missae”. The…

The author and the historical truth of the fourth Gospel (source) The following dubia presented were answered by the Pontifical Biblical Commission as follows: Dubium I. From the constant, universal and solemn tradition of the…

In my opinion, the history of the Catholic Church in Korea is an especially fascinating part of Church history. In this article, I write about the history of of Catholicism in Korea, up to and…

In this article, I post three documents of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (Pontificium Institutum Biblicum) from the start of the 20th century on the historical authenticity and authorship of the Pentateuch, the Book of Isaiah…

As the year 2025 comes to an end, I want to take a moment to reflect on this last year. During 2025, I have published two PDF files: 10 old songs from the German hymnal…

The Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Image by Todd Lapin, CC-BY-NC 2.0, here. One of the things that the Catholic Church gets accused of ad nauseam is the fact that the Inquisition accused and convicted…

Featured image: Sister Lúcia in 1946 (source) About twenty years ago, a debate arose on the internet about whether the person appearing as Sister Lúcia in photographs taken after 1967 was really Lúcia dos Santos,…

Score as PDF The Christmas carol “Mennyből az angyal” (“From heaven the angel”) is the most popular carol in Hungary. It was probably written by the parish priest of Boconád, Mihály Szentmihályi in the 18th…

In 1950, when the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi (1901-1950) was living in the USA, the subject of aliens came up one day while he was having lunch with his fellow scientists, and he asked the…

The following essay is from the April 1938 issue of the Hungarian Catholic periodical “Örökimádás” (“Eternal Adoration”) and was written by János Eőri. “Örökimádás” ran from 1900 until 1944, and the issues can be downloaded in PDF format from…

In my opinion, many “canonizations” and “beatifications” of the recent decades since the Second Vatican Council have been accompanied by hypocrisy. The Martyrs of China, Vietnam and Korea “John Paul II” is known for “canonizing”…

On November 23, Antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) has published an “apostolic letter” with the title “In unitate fidei” (“In the unity of faith”). The topic is the anniversary of the Council of Nicea, the…

The month of November starts with the feast day of All Saints, where the Church commemorates every human being in heaven, not just those who have been canonized. The next day, November 2, All Souls’…

The following excerpt is from the book “Catholic Apologetics” by the American priest John Laux, originally published in 1928, republished 1990 by TAN Books, pages 77-82. The expression Son of God was in ordinary use…

Saint Catherine of Siena is one of the great saints of the Church and one of the patron saints of Europe. She received divine visions. Her main work is the Dialogue, but hundreds of her…

Mortalium animos (“The minds of mortals”) is one of the most important documents from the pontificate of Pius XI, right along Quas primas on the kingship of Christ and Casti conubbii on Christian marriage. Its…

István Sándor SDB Salesian lay brother, martyr Born: October 26, 1914 Died: June 8, 1953 This is the story of István Sándor SDB (1914-1953), a Hungarian Salesian brother and a martyr of Communism. He was…