Category Archives: Columns
From the Laptops
“From the Laptops,” the section of our site with opinion and commentary columns, is so named as a tribute to our old journal, From the Housetops (back issues still available). If checking back here every day becomes tiresome, you can subscribe to RSS feeds of “From the Laptops.”
Homosexual Protest at Acushnet, MA, Parish
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today [Monday, May 21] criticized the demonstration held yesterday during the 10:30 a.m. Mass at Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Acushnet. Ten protesters, some carrying signs, marched on the sidewalk across the street from the entrance to the church. They were protesting the brief appearance last week of a sign on the church’s message board supporting the traditional definition … More →
Conflicting Reports on ‘Nostra Aetate’
The great deal of talk surrounding the pending Rome-SSPX rapprochement has presented us with two cardinals publicly giving 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 … More →
SSPX: ‘With or Against Rome from This Point On’
From Kreuz.net via the Eponymous Flower: …Bishop Fellay explained that the current “seemingly comfortable” situation is coming to an end for the Society. The current way will not continue: ”It will be a with or against Rome from this point on.” Both will be hard. Read 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 →
Father Faber on the Salvation of Non-Catholics
If the Precious Blood had been shed, and yet we had no priesthood, no Sacraments, no jurisdiction, no sacramentals, no mystical life of the visible unity of the Church– life, so it seems, would be almost intolerable. This is the condition of those outside the Church; and certainly as we grow older, as our experience widens, as our knowledge of ourselves deepens, as our acquaintance … More →
‘Christ’ Hospital Rehires Notorious Baby Killer Abortionist as Gynecologist
Christ Hospital of Cincinnati was founded in 1889 by James Gamble whose soap company would become Proctor and Gamble, Inc. According to the hospital website, he, and some Cincinnati locals, “invited Isabella Thoburn, a teacher, nurse, and missionary, to come to Ohio.
The Nine Prayers of Holy Mass That Forgive Venial Sins
There are nine prayers in the Ordinary of the traditional Latin Mass that may be efficacious for the forgiveness of venial sin.
Tweeting the Pilgrimage for Restoration
Supposedly, revolutions get organized on Twitter now. Flashmobs, too. If social disorder and moral turpitude can be organized there, can wholesome Catholic events? If you’re interested in coming to a quasi-scientific answer to this question and you use Twitter, then follow the Pilgrimage for Restoration on Twitter and “retweet” the following status: The 17th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration is scheduled for Friday-Sunday, September 28-30. #PilgrimageForRestoration … More →
Burning Question
Why do most “Catholic” politicians invoke their religion exactly when they are contradicting it in public?
“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 →
Give Us This Day Our Supersubstantial Bread
In his weekly column for the Washington DC Archdiocesan website, Monsignor Charles Pope raises the question of the meaning of the word used by Saints Matthew and Luke in the petition for “our daily bread” in the Our Father prayer.
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