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.




