Author Archives: Brother André Marie
Conflicting Reports on ‘Nostra Aetate’
There is a great deal of talk surrounding the pending SSPX-Rome rapprochement. Recently, two cardinals gave conflicting reports on the magisterial character of Nostra Aetate, the Vatican II document on non-Catholic religions. Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, says that the document and the post-conciliar papal statements concerning Catholic-Jewish relations “are binding on a Catholic.” His … More →
Ascension Octave/Pentecost Novena
We are in the Octave of the Ascension, so meditating on this mystery is timely: The Ascension and the Apostolate. We regret that, due to our losing Internet access for a couple of days, we were unable to announce our Pentecost Novena in a timely way online. It’s not too late to join us, as long as you make a full nine days of it.
Back Online
Due to lightning that struck the antenna by which we connect to the Internet, SBC has been offline a couple of days. The site was running fine, as it is hosted elsewhere, but we have not had access to it since the ill-fated electrical storm that stuck shortly before midnight on the eve of the Ascension. The last thing posted, shortly before we lost our Internet … More →
SSPX Leadership Condemns Leaks
(DICI) An exchange of private letters between the Superior General of the Society of Saint Pius X and the three other bishops was circulated on the Internet on May 9, 2012. This behavior is reprehensible. The person who breached the confidentiality of this internal correspondence committed a serious sin. Read more…
“Social Media” and Our Youth
From a Sunday bulletin… Because of the Center’s electronic publishing and online evangelical activities, I am somewhat familiar with the “social media.” The internet giant Facebook is now used by “901 million monthly active users at the end of March 2012,” or so they claim. Among those users are people in our community, including some of our youth. It bears repeating that any and all … More →
Joseph Pierce on Roy Campbell
Joseph Pearce recalls the extraordinary life of Roy Campbell, who hid St John of the Cross’s letters from anticlerical Spanish militiamen. As you read Pierce’s piece, recall that here in the good old U S of A, people were led to believe that the good guys in this war were the ones that murdered priests, brothers, nuns, and Catholic laity. The bad guys, according to … More →
Ed Rogers Skeptical on Obama’s SS Marriage ‘Evolution’
The President says that his thinking about same-sex “marriage” has evolved. Writing for the WaPo, Ed Rogers suspects a cynical political motive: Reality check: Obama manipulated gay voters, kept them at a distance and hoped they would settle for the occasional wink and a nod. But he has found himself in a campaign with dwindling enthusiasm and a narrowing electoral map; he needs this group’s … More →
Chicoms Open Banks in US
(AFP) The United States on Wednesday opened its banking market to ICBC, China’s biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company. Just days after high-level US-China economic talks in Beijing, the Federal Reserve approved an application from Industrial and Commercial Bank of China to buy a majority stake in the US subsidiary of Bank of … More →
Liechtenstein: Prince Alois Threatens to Veto Abortion Law
Liechtenstein’s Hereditary Prince Alois, a Catholic, has threatened to use his constitutional powers to veto a law allowing abortion in his tiny Alpine nation. This has led some to call for a referendum to remove the Hereditary Prince’s constitutional veto powers, which, in turn, has provoked the Prince to threaten withdrawal from the nation’s political life entirely. But: Wilfried Marxer, a political scientist and director … More →
Vatican Tells UN to Respect Parental Rights and Homeschooling
(The New American) As some totalitarian-minded governments escalate their attacks on parental rights and homeschooling, the Vatican’s delegation to the United Nations called on the world to respect families, the rights of parents to direct the upbringing of their children, and non-governmental forms of education. The Holy See’s representatives also called on governments last week to stop indoctrinating the youth. Read more…
May/June 2012 Mancipia
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Mandeville, the Frankfurt School, and Yves Simon on Authority and Liberty
A Counterpoint to Bernard Mandeville’s Deceitful Doctrine of Man and to the Frankfurt School’s Irrational Dialectical Anthropology: The Frigid Equivocations, Psycho-Cultural Subversion, Seductive Despair. A Commentary on Two Revolutionary and Neo-Sophist Texts of the Frankfurt School and the British Tavistock Institute, Respectively: Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944, 1947); and The Dialectics of Liberation (1967, 1968, 1969) – Considered in the Longer Light of Bernard Mandeville’s “Fable … More →
Pope Hopes Catholic Americans Will Revive the Church?
THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: “In a stunning announcement on Monday, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI (via the apostolic nuncio to the United States Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano) has just laid the heaviest burden in 2,000 years on the shoulders of Catholic Americans. Realizing that Christianity in Europe is beyond recovery, the Holy Father has called upon the U.S. Catholic Church to ‘lead the way’ in revival … More →
