Sometimes you just want to throw up your hands. Hey, we went through it in the 60s and 70s and 80s. Send your beloved son or daughter to a typical “Catholic” college and forget about having a “Catholic” young man or woman graduate. I know I am preaching to the choir here. I mean, lesbian “witches” teaching in theology departments, as one parent told me happened to his son in a Jesuit University in New Orleans; and this was not just that University, but other “Catholic” colleges gave similar tenures to radical feminists and other subversives. But, now we’ve had a “study.”
Saint Thomas Aquinas, whose feast day on the new calendar was yesterday, died at the age of forty-nine in the Cistercian monastery of Foss-Nuova on his way to the second ecumenical council of Lyons. He died on the seventh of March, 1274, exactly two months before the council opened. Even …
Our chaplain, Father Michael Jarecki, is now back home after a three-day hospital stay. He needs more care and attention than he did prior to his recent illness. The brothers, with the help of visiting nurses, are attending to him 24/7. We thank everyone who prayed for him. And he, …
Our longtime chaplain, Father Michael Jarecki, was hospitalized Saturday evening at Cheshire Medical Center in Keene, NH. He has an infection in his leg. The problem is not life-threatening per se, but at Father’s advanced age (92), such a condition is of concern. We ask for you prayers for an indefatigable alter Christus, who has been wondrously conformed over the years to Christ the Victim-Priest. He is an edification to us all.
One need not be a neoconservative, a Rush Limbaugh fan, or a partisan of Israel to appreciate this Jewish lady’s frank words to Abe Foxman. I’m none of those things and I appreciate them immensely. She is not alone. There are many Jews who resent Foxman’s profiteering lefty-liberal …
Father Franz Schmidberger, the German District Superior of the Society of St. Pius X, sent a message of gratitude to the Holy Father on the anniversary of the lifting of excommunications from the Society’s four bishops. Included in his video recorded message to the Holy Father were these comments:…
A recent little talk I gave on the sin of schism — part of my comments on the Chair of Unity Octave — prompted a question from one of my auditors: “Is sedevacantism schism?” I had to reply in the affirmative.
In the last analysis, sedevacantists reject the jurisdiction of the Pope over the universal Church. While their schism is different than that of most schismatics — who reject his authority in principle — they have withdrawn themselves from communion with the Vicar of Christ. Since that is precisely what schism is, sedevacantists are in schism.
Dr. Jeff Mirus has an article in the Commentary section of his Catholic Culture website called “The Coming of Christ in the Flesh,” in which he attempts to convince a biblical fundamentalist that people need not have explicit knowledge of, and divine Faith in, Christ in order to be saved. He says that this is the teaching of the Catholic Church, which Christ founded upon Saint Peter, and that, without the guidance of this magisterium, the Bible can be misinterpreted, even on so basic a teaching as whether or not explicit faith in Christ is necessary for salvation.
Patrick J Buchanan shows how those itching to spread “our way of life” throughout the world, instead of forming a pro-American network across the globe, are forging the alliances that will ultimately destroy us. It’s a form of geo-political suicide that seems inherent in democracy. Let’s dump the phony pieties; democracy is “the god that failed.”
Today begins the traditional Chair of Unity octave, originally planned to last from the feast of Saint Peter’s Chair at Rome (today) 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 even in the 1962 rubrics, a priest may offer the votive Mass of Saint Peter’s Chair at Rome, so we still have our octave in the traditional rite. Readers may find an inelegant but useful PDF file with the appropriate prayers.
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I think this is one of the nicest things I have ever seen done. The whole idea is what should happen in towns. By recognizing our oldest citizens hopefully we should learn from them and become better persons and Americans. And look at Br. Francis–he is the happiest person I have seen. Please thank him for this gracious acceptance of this award. And thank you for posting this; it broadcasts a lot of hope!
Sincerely, Missy Farber