by Fr John Lawrence Polis, FI | Mar 8, 2022 | 2021, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
The perpetual virginity of Mary is a dogma of the Catholic Faith which is intimately linked to the mystery of Christ’s Incarnation and Birth and which underlines His two natures, human and divine. The preaching and writing of various popes and early Church Fathers...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Jan 26, 2022 | 2021, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
In this my final commentary on the brilliant paper that Father Peter Damian Fehlner delivered at Fatima on May 7, 2005,1 I hope to wrap up my analysis of this extraordinary document. I will not have exhausted it, but I hope to have rendered it more accessible to the...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Dec 15, 2021 | 2021, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
In this installment of The Marian Issue in the Church Today, Msgr. Calkins continues to unpack the prophetic teachings of the late Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, this time with a focus on the subtle reasoning present in certain Church circles today purporting the...
by Fr. Dwight P. Campbell, S.T.D. | Oct 11, 2021 | 2021, Mary in the Prayer of the Church, Missio Article
To the 12th century Benedictine Abbot, Eckbert of Schoenau, is attributed the first written prayer to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In it, Our Lady’s Heart is compared to many Old Testament symbols and images: as the “holy of holies,” the “ark of sanctification,” the...
by Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke | Jun 15, 2021 | 2021, Missio Article, Special
The Incarnation of the Son of God was made possible through the consent of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the Annunciation, who was already legally espoused to St. Joseph, but prior to their living together. In order to have a correct understanding of the marriage of...
by Msgr. Arthur B. Calkins | Apr 23, 2021 | 2021, Missio Article, The Marian Issue
According to the penetrating insights of Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner, the crisis in the Church today requires the faithful to live with a faith matching the Fiat of the Virgin, in the spirit of prayer and penance-reparation, that is, in a coredemptive spirit, and in...