We continue what be began in our last number, a three-part study of spiritual childhood by Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (1877-1964).
St. Teresa of the Child Jesus reminds us that the principal virtues of the child of God are those in which are reproduced in an eminent degree the innate qualities of the child, minus his defects. Consequently the way of spiritual childhood will teach us to be supernaturally ourselves minus our defects.
Brother Thomas Mary wrote an article many years ago that deserves wider circulation and attention. It’s called, simply, “Doctrinal Summary” — an accurate name, as the piece summarizes Father Feeney’s doctrinal stance, but a too modest name to arouse readers’ attention. Please consider this an invitation to read Brother …
(This is dedicated to Heidi Beirich, director of “research” at the Southern Poverty Law Center, whose intelligent, nuanced writing style I attempt to imitate.)
The radical mercenary leftist fundraisers at the Southern Poverty Law Center are busily spewing out their trademark caterwauling again. Yes, the enemies of free speech and Christian social order are howling about the frenzied maniacs ready to escort Adolf Hitler himself down Main Street, U.S.A.
MERRIMACK, N.H. (TMC Press Release) – The Virginia-based Young America’s Foundation recently recommended the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts as one of the nation’s top conservative colleges in its sixth annual “Top Conservative Colleges” list.
Commenting on the list, Young America’s Foundation President Ron Robinson explained, “Given the liberal bias in higher education today, it is critical that we make these recommendations.
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day
I just read on the New Advent website the Catholic Encyclopedia’s excellent account of the life of Erin’s great apostle. I would highly recommend it if you can spare fifteen minutes today. I can’t think of anything I’ve read elsewhere over the years about the saint that …
That’s the motion that was debated last week in London, at an event hosted by the Spectator and held at the Royal Geographical Society. And guess what — “the 700-strong sell-out audience voted overwhelmingly in favour of the motion”!
Excerpt from The Catholic Herald:
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, author Piers Paul Read and Dom Anthony Sutch, former headmaster of Downside, spoke for the motion.
Anime cartoons and their characters are a huge cultic phenomenon, the most popular of all escapist media venues. It is very addictive and very dangerous, to the soul and the mind. I don’t post weird stories, but this blog by Zoe Romanowski from Inside Catholic, along with another, even …
One of the commentators on the relevant CWN article expressed it well: “It’s past time someone said this. Too often ecumenism is taken to mean the weakening of the teachings of the Church and the addition of non-Catholic ritual and beliefs.” A-m-e-n-!
Past time is better than no time — or, “better late than never.” All the scandal that has transpired, and is ongoing, in the name of ecumenism and inter-religious dialogue should cease at these words of Cardinal Levada defining its purpose (or “final cause” to you Aristotelians out there): “Union with the Catholic Church is the goal of ecumenism.”
Our 2010 conference will be held on October 8 and 9 at Saint Benedict Center in Richmond, New Hampshire.
The information currently available is as follows:
Theme: “The Romance of Wisdom”
Cost: $100 for both days (Friday and Saturday). This includes meals. Single days without meals: $40.
Note: This year, Friday and Saturday will both be full days. There will be eight speakers giving presentations in addition to the master of ceremonies, our Prior, Brother Andre Marie.
Archbishop Alberto Bottari de Castello, apostolic nuncio to Japan, has a very perceptive insight into the subversive effects Buddhist doctrine has on the soul of a suffering devotee confronting hopelessness. From Sandro Magister’s latest column: “Why Life is Worth So Little in Prosperous Japan.”
“The Japanese do not have a personal …
[March 5, 2010 - Rome Reports (with hat tip to Rorate Caeli)]
Benedict XVI has formed a commission to investigate if Our Lady truly appeared in Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia.
The commission is part of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and Cardinal Camillo Ruini will preside over the commission. Ruini is the pope’s former vicar of Rome’s diocese. Ruini goal will be to explain to the pope what’s happening at the sanctuary which has become the third most visited in Europe.
Allegedly, at least 6 people have witnessed the Virgins apparitions there since 1981.
The thirteenth century – regarded as the "Greatest of Centuries" – was coming to an end. The century of the glorious Crusades, in which selfless men of faith sacrificed their lives to recover the revered relics of Christendom; the magnificent cathedrals with spires that reached into the heavens to adore Him on High; the great universities, dedicated to the education of a God-centered people, that gave to the world men not only learned, but holy – such as Saints Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure, and Albert the Great. In a word, the thirteenth century had been everything that is Catholic.
On the Eve of Christmas, in the year of Our Lord, 1294, a new pope was elevated to the Chair of Peter. Concomitant with his accession, however, a menacing new spirit of revolution had entered the world. Catholic princes of Europe were brazenly repudiating the Sovereign Pontiff’s supreme authority.
It was amidst this tumultuous sea of rebellion that Boniface VIII had been chosen by the Holy Ghost to take the helm of Peter’s Barque. His ten-year reign is marked by ceaseless but unavailing efforts to reconcile and pacify the enemies of the Holy See. Sister Catherine, MICM noted this in Our Glorious Popes:
Pope Boniface VIII, the last of the Glorious Popes of the Middle Ages, tried with every breath of his priestly heart, every effort of his extraordinarily gifted mind, … every power, to stem the tide of revolution, only to go down to terrible defeat before the same diabolic forces which achieved the religious revolution of Luther in 1517, and the French Revolution of 1789.
Probably no pope in the history of Christendom has been more maligned, more slandered, than this great pontiff. His unyielding defense of the Church’s supreme authority over every temporal power – granted by Our Lord Himself – earned the unrelenting contempt of the enemies of Jesus Christ. In one of the advanced degrees of Freemasonry, for example, the initiation ritual includes thrusting a dagger through a ceremonial skull, which stands for that of Pope Boniface VIII. Why Boniface? Because everything that Freemasonry despises – the power and authority of Jesus Christ invested in His Vicar – was exemplified and upheld most formidably by this holy pope. And he was holy indeed. Three centuries after his death, his body was found to be incorrupt – a compelling sign, to the contradiction of his implacable enemies both within and with out the Church, that his life and works and teachings were wholly pleasing to God. It is for this reason that we believe Boniface VIII may one day be canonized a saint.
Elsewhere on this site, we have reprinted in full, the text of his famous Bull, Unam Sanctam, issued in 1302. We have also published a more detailed discussion of the historical circumstances that occasioned this thunderous exposition of Catholic dogma and pontifical authority. It is enough to say here that the message of Boniface VIII is as clear and challenging – and every bit as valid- today as it was some seven hundred years ago. It is the same challenge that our Founder, Father Leonard Feeney, brought to the attention of the entire world over forty years ago: There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church, nor without personal submission to our Holy Father the Pope!
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