A Frightening Future If We Do Not Change
Review of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? by Patrick J. Buchanan, Thomas Dunne Books, 2011 This 428 page book, containing copious notes in the end note section (1104 of them to be exact), is... More →
Suggested Lenten Penances
The best penances are those that God sends us. These penances are immediately consequent upon His “will signified,” that is, the natural moral law and any positive law to which we are bound in conscience, e.g., the Church’s... More →
Obama’s ‘Unacceptable’ Compromise, and Lies
CatholicCulture.org and cnsnews.com both have coverage of the Bishops’ response to President Obama’s “compromise” on the HHS contraceptive mandate. Worth noting in the Bishops’ statement is their assertion that “coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients” is... More →
Another good Michael Voris video. The titular question is one that we would hope Catholics would not have to think about much before replying.... More →
‘Catholic Conspiracy’ on Contraception ExposedDr. William Fahey, writing for Crisis Magazine, exposes the folly of certain politicians’ implication that the Church is throwing around its weight in the... More →
Introduction to Catholicism.orgBelow is a video of Brother André Marie introducing readers to the new features of our revamped Catholicism.org, and telling new viewers about the... More →
Rights, Duties, and the Contraception ThingSomething is being left out of the discussion surrounding the HHS mandate, which coerces employees to fund illicit sexual behavior via their insurance programs.... More →
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Penance and the Conversion of America
Lent is on its way. During this penitential season of grace, the Church’s liturgy will put sentiments of penance on our lips and in our minds. She will also enjoin us, in various ways, to do works of penance. In my last Ad Rem, Christ’s Commission and Obama’s Mandate: A Teachable Moment, I made the argument that the Church... More →
The little town of Loretto in Western Pennsylvania, was founded in 1799 by a group of pious Catholic settlers under the guidance of a prince-priest, the Russian convert, Demetrius Gallitzin. As a boy Father Gallitzin knew no religion. His father, the Russian ambassador to Holland, had befriended the freethinkers Voltaire and Diderot; his mother,... More →
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