RIP: Brother Placid Stuckenschneider OSB

You may not recognize the name, but if you are Catholic, you know the artist that he was–there is no American Catholic, whose art dominated the post-Vatican II church more (in the U.S.) than Brother Placid’s…
From St. John’s Abbey:
Brother Placid began full time work at the Liturgical Press around 1965 as its primary illustrator. He [...]

Tortured Priest’s Tenacity Exposes Betrayal in Church

From the Star Tribune:
Eighteen months ago, the Rev. Tadeusz Isakowicz-Zaleski, heard a startling report on the radio.
Communist-era files thought to have been destroyed years ago had in fact been preserved, the report said. They chronicled obsessive efforts by the SB, the regime’s despised security police, to intimidate or compromise Roman Catholic clergy who were [...]

Cardinal Biffi’s Lenten Talk on the Antichrist

To the Pope, from Zenit, quoting Soloviev:
According to Vatican Radio’s summary of his preaching, the cardinal explained that “the teaching that the great Russian philosopher left us is that Christianity cannot be reduced to a set of values. At the center of being a Christian is, in fact, the personal encounter with Jesus Christ.”
Quoting the [...]