The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release… Both The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald are reporting today that the Holy See has extended invitations to Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey to a Vatican sponsored climate summit in Rome. … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Unpopular Opinion: Padre Júlio Maria de Lombaerde on Protestants Being Atheists
On X, a (real-life) friend asked me if I agreed with this: “THE PROTESTANT IS AN ATHEIST WRAPPED IN THE COVER OF A BIBLE, KEEPING ONLY THE COVER, BEING HIMSELF THE TEXT OF THE BIBLE, THAT IS, HIS OWN WILL, … Continue reading
Another Boston-Area Catholic Institution Celebrates Governor Maura Healey
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release… On April 12th, just two days before speaking at the Annual Gala of the Catholic Schools Foundation—an organization chaired by Cardinal Sean O’Malley—another Catholic institution welcomed and celebrated the Bay State’s pro-abortion, lesbian chief … Continue reading
‘Rome’ and ‘Catholic’ Connected from the Start
The following is a brief excerpt from my book, The Roman Catholic Church: A Divine Institution or a Human Invention? GOD has revealed that, once the Jews in general rejected the Messiah/New Covenant, which was then embraced by the gentile … Continue reading
Boston: Catholic Schools Foundation Hosts Governor Maura Healey
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release… According to Politico and the State House News Service, the Catholic Schools Foundation—the philanthropy which raises funds for parochial schools in the Archdiocese of Boston—hosted Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey as its speaker, at … Continue reading
President Trump Was Elected on a Platform Promising Federal Action on Abortion
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news update… With President Donald Trump’s April 8th announcement on Truth Social that abortion legislation should be left to the states, some conservatives are attempting to re-write history. Members of the conservative … Continue reading
Beware the ‘Conservative’ Late-Term Abortion Scam!
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release… With the lamentable decision of President Donald J. Trump to embrace a states rights position on the killing of unborn children, the Republican media universe — especially the faux conservative … Continue reading
Traditionalist Priest Hounded by Lunatics in the French Government
Abbé Matthieu Raffray, a priest of the traditionalist Institute of the Good Shepherd, is being hounded by a French government official for calling homosexual acts sinful and for calling homosexuality a “weakness.” Aurore Bergé, a government minister “for equality between … Continue reading
An Easter Mass by the Catholic Composer, Jan Dismas Zelenka
The Jesuit educated Czech Catholic composer Jan Dismas Zelenka, sometimes called the “Catholic Bach,”1 is too little known, and we would like to fix that! Worthy to be listed alongside his contemporaries, Bach, Händel, Vivaldi and Telemann, his music presents … Continue reading
Why Did Jesus Command the Apostles to Touch Him, but Forbid Saint Mary Magdalene?
Today, someone asked me this question on Facebook (after reading this article): …it reminds me of a question I have pondered for many years. In John’s account, once the “gardener” reveals himself as Jesus, Mary Magdalene reaches out to embrace … Continue reading
The Lamentations of Jeremias: Art and Music
During the sacred Triduum, the Lamentations of Jeremias are sung as part of the Tenebrae ceremony, i.e., the liturgical office comprised of Matins and Laudes, and done in the dark, as its Latin name suggests. Each liturgical lesson from Jeremias … Continue reading
Orestes Brownson on Religion and Politics
My old mentor, Brother Francis Maluf, once encountered a man while publicly evangelizing, who said to him emphatically, “There are two things we don’t talk about here, Brother!” Playing the naive foreigner, Brother innocently asked, “And what are they?” “Religion … Continue reading
Bad Granite-State News: Assisted Suicide Bill Narrowly Passes N.H. House
We called our State Reps and asked them to oppose this bill. In both cases, they were already planning on opposing it. The bill won by a mere three votes, which is a very narrow margin indeed in the New … Continue reading
Good Granite-State News: Attempt to Restore Communist Memorial Defeated
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release… An attempt to resurrect a historic marker commemorating an infamous Communist Party figure has been defeated in New Hampshire. Merrimack County Superior Court Judge John C. Kissinger Jr. has dismissed a … Continue reading
Happy Feast of Saint Joseph!
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts message to supporters… March 19th is the Feast of Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Head of the Holy Family, Confessor, and Patron of the Universal Church. The Gospel of Saint Matthew tells … Continue reading