March 2026

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Cooking With Saints: Modernist Trivialization of Catholic Liturgy

The March 14, 2026, article on the NC Register blog promotes the cookbook Catholic Feast Days by Alexandra Greeley, which connects liturgical celebrations and saints’ feast days to culinary recipes. The piece, endorsed by Father Edward Hathaway of St. Veronica Catholic Church in Chantilly, Virginia, presents cooking classes and meal planning as a primary means of “living the faith” and sanctifying time. This approach reduces the sacred mysteries of the liturgical year to naturalistic, sentimental activities, utterly omitting the supernatural realities of sacrifice, grace, and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It embodies the Modernist infection condemned by the pre-1958 Magisterium, replacing the spiritual reign of Christ the King with a banal focus on food and family.

A solemn depiction of the Holy Stairs replica at St. Patrick's Church in Pittsburgh, highlighting the modernist emptiness in Catholic devotion.
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Naturalized Piety: Holy Stairs Article’s Modernist Emptiness

The article from the National Catholic Register (March 14, 2026) details the Holy Stairs replica at St. Patrick’s Church in Pittsburgh, focusing on Father James Cox’s legacy and the devotion’s emphasis on physical mortification and reported miraculous interventions. It frames the practice as a tangible, emotionally resonant connection to Christ’s Passion, accessible to all, with anecdotes of healings and fulfilled desires. However, this presentation systematically evacuates the devotion of its Catholic supernatural essence, reducing it to a naturalistic, therapeutic exercise that omits the social reign of Christ the King, the necessity of the Church, and the doctrine of grace. The article thus embodies the modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X and Pius IX, reflecting the theological bankruptcy of the post-conciliar “Church.”

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Bishops’ Naturalistic Pronouncements: Apostasy in Action

The cited EWTN article from March 14, 2026, reports on statements from various episcopal conferences within the post-conciliar structure, including the Scottish bishops’ opposition to assisted suicide legislation, the Italian bishops’ call for prayer and fasting for peace, the Hong Kong diocese’s baptismal numbers, and other geopolitical and humanitarian concerns. The common thread is a consistent focus on naturalistic, sociological, and prudential arguments while omitting the supernatural foundations of Catholic teaching: the intrinsic evil of assisted suicide as a violation of the Fifth Commandment, the necessity of publicly honoring Christ the King for peace, the absolute priority of the salvation of souls over geopolitical strategy, and the doctrine of the Social Kingship of Christ. This pattern reveals not pastoral concern, but the systematic evaporation of Catholic dogma in favor of a secular humanist framework.

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