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Continuing our series on the Catholic economy of salvation, we move from our first installment’s consideration of faith, hope, and charity, to a look at the sacraments. We will not address each and every sacrament here, but will confine ourselves … Continue reading
You may have seen one of those Protestant tracts, web pages, or videos that asks: “What Must I Do to Be Saved?” The reference is from Acts of the Apostles 16:30-31, where it is related that Saint Paul and Silas … Continue reading
My last Ad Rem, “The Iran War and the Battle for the Soul of America,” garnered strong reactions, both positive and negative. Grateful as I am for the positive comments I received, the negative ones need to be addressed here. … Continue reading
A man once told Brother Francis, when our Lebanese mentor had initiated a religious conversation with him, “There are two things we don’t talk about here!” Brother responded, with all the apparent naïveté of a foreigner, “What are they?” “Religion … Continue reading
Blessed Abbot Columba Marmion, O.S.B., wrote that “Christianity is a mystery of life and death.” By virtue of our Baptism and Eucharistic Communion with Jesus Christ, our life and death, and our new life after death, are intimately bound up … Continue reading
Last Friday, a Tucker Carlson interview with the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, premiered on YouTube: Tucker Confronts Mike Huckabee on America’s Toxic Relationship With Israel. It is long, about two and a half hours, with an eleven-minute introduction … Continue reading
Some time before Vatican II, a certain prelate in a major U.S. archdiocese gave the invocation at an interfaith meeting at which Jews were present. So as not to offend, he began his prayer thus: “In the name of God. … Continue reading
Since 1970, scientists have made some fascinating discoveries from rigorous lab tests of various Eucharistic miracles both old and new. Among other things, the findings reveal both an identical Blood type common to each miracle (and to the Shroud of … Continue reading
True to his intense devotion to the Incarnation and the divine economy flowing from that great Mystery, Saint Francis of Assisi gave the Church the first living Nativity scene, in order to show, in a vivid and very present manner, … Continue reading
In the article, “Leaving Behind the Filioque?”, I briefly analyzed two passages of the Holy Father’s apostolic letter, In Unitate Fidei (“In the Unity of Faith”), expressing the concern that a decades-old, ecumenically driven agenda of downgrading the dogma of … Continue reading
On November 4, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published a Doctrinal Note that had previously been approved by Pope Leo on October 7, Mater Populi Fidelis (MPF). Without issuing any dogmatic definition, formal condemnation, or canonical … Continue reading
Saint Luke, the only Gentile author of the New Testament, and the “historian of Christ’s meekness” (as Dante styles him), narrates several episodes in the life of Jesus that no other evangelist writes of, including the second, fourth, and fifth … Continue reading
As was the last Ad Rem, this number is an edited excerpt from the talk I am soon to give at Saint Benedict Center’s annual conference. In Chapter ten of the Commonitory, Saint Vincent considers what we should do when … Continue reading
How do we navigate the turbulent waters of twenty-first century Catholicism? We see many good things in the Church today, to be sure, but we also see massive blow-back against them from a dying generation of neo-modernist clerics in high … Continue reading
There was an informative exchange on Catholicism.org when Charles Coulombe’s article, “Which Christian Nation Are We Defending?,” provoked a reply from the redoubtable Henry Sire, “The Kingdom of God in Human History.” The exchange was a friendly one between two … Continue reading
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