Author Archives: Brother André Marie
Planned Parenthood and Other Government Funded Eugenics Programs
Thank God legislators at the federal and state (New Hampshire) level are seriously trying to defund the murderous criminal racket that goes by the name of Planned Parenthood. The PP gang was recently exposed again for their illegal activity by Lila Rose and her Live Action pro-life organization, which performed videotaped sting operations on various PP slaughterhouses,
The King of Big Mountain
At the Whitefish Mountain Resort in Whitefish, Montana, there’s something unusual near the top of Big Mountain’s Chair 2. It’s a statue of Our Lord Jesus Christ, not something one would normally associate with a ski resort. The story of how it got there is a touching one. According to the Flathead Beacon:
Sojourners in the Land of Egypt
The headline reads “Egyptian Christians Worry about Radical Islamic Takeover.” The worry is a legitimate one. Instability in the Arab world, caused by revolutions against western-backed strong men, could well empower fanatical Islamists. The downfall of our US-backed Persian strong man, the Shah, gave the world the socialist-Shiite Revolution in Iran. If the Sunnite world, where the present revolutions are taking place, takes a similar … More →
Brazilian Prince Considers Why Our Lady Weeps
From the TFP: Prince Bertrand raised the question as to why Our Lady as a mother would weep over her children. He spoke at length about the great accomplishments of Christendom, which were fruits of the Redemption. The fall of Christendom was obviously a cause for the sorrow of Our Lady. … He showed how Christendom fell through a series of Revolutions that attacked Christian … More →
‘I Was in Prison, and You Came to Me’
I just made the acquaintance of a man named Chris Quinn, who volunteers at the Roederer Correctional Facility in LaGrange, Kentucky. He and other Catholic laymen have an apostolate among the prisoners there. Mr. Quinn wrote to tell me how much he appreciated our material on Father Arnold Damen, because two works of this great missionary have proven very helpful in his prison apostolate.
Canon Law and Lay Apostles
The apostolate is not something reserved to clergy and religious. It never was. Long before Vatican II — which, according to a strange mythology, first asserted the importance of the laity in propagating the Catholic message — Saint Vincent Pallotti made layfolk members of his “Union of the Catholic Apostolate.” And in doing so, he was made no claim to originality.
Margaret Sanger, H.G. Wells, George B. Shaw: Racist Eugenicists with a Mind to Exterminate Inferiors
Michael Coren has a worthwhile article on the Catholic Online website. He quotes Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, saying that “we do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population ‘because it might provoke their more rebellious members.’ ” Hillary Clinton, our Secretary of State, praised Sanger as she received the Margaret Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood … More →
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Venerable Nelson Baker’s un-PC Prayer
The Servant of God, Father Nelson Baker, recently declared venerable, is a figure that will probably go down in history as one of the great American saints. In the early Church, long before the modern process of canonization, he probably would have been spontaneously canonized by the consensus of the faithful, so conspicuous was his sanctity, so splendid his practice of heroic virtue.
Chair of Unity Octave
Today begins the traditional Chair of Unity octave, originally planned to last from the feast of Saint Peter’s Chair at Rome until the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul on January 25. The devotion has evolved into the “Week of Prayer,” since the removal from the calendar of the feast that opened the octave. But in the 1962 rubrics, a priest may offer the … More →
Advisory on Father Michael Jarecki’s Health
Father Michael Jarecki was our chaplain for about 20 years. Since our new resident priest arrived on November 1, Father has ceased offering Mass, as his infirmities made it very difficult for him to get through the ritual. About a fortnight ago, Father Jarecki started to move much more slowly that usual. Then, early in the morning of Friday, January 7, he began to show … More →
An Unlikely Apologetic
The Rev. Candace Chellew-Hodge is not among my favorite theologians. No, the author of Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians, doesn’t inspire me with her contributions to sacred letters. But her column, Why Gays and Lesbians Should Never Argue Scripture, does have some — doubtless unintended — apologetical value.
Merry Childermas!
Today is the feast of the Holy Innocents, once known in the Anglophone world as Childermas. This curious word is an elision of “Mass of the Children,” that is, the liturgical commemoration of those little boys of Bethlehem who were massacred by Herod the Great. The suffix serves as a reminder that the principal way to observe such a day was to attend the Holy … More →
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