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.”
St. Maximilian Kolbe’s Marian Approach to EENS
“Therefore, he who does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for Mother will not have Christ for his brother, neither will God the Father send him the Son, nor will the Son descend into his soul, nor will the Holy Spirit with His own graces form the Mystical Body upon the model of Christ, because all of this happens in Mary Immaculate, full of grace, … More →
‘The Slave of the Slaves Forever,’ Signed, Pedro Claver
On this day, September 9, the Church honors a Jesuit missioner who was one of the greatest saints of the New World. Saint Peter Claver never left the port city of Cartagena after his ordination there in 1615. His superior in Spain had sent him directives five years before to “make haste” for New Granada (Colombia) to assist another missionary who was overwhelmed by work.
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Europe is Going Crazy
When I read “studies show…” or “a recent study has indicated that…” I admit to having a healthy dose of skepticism. Depending on who does the “studying,” the conclusions of such a scientific pursuit could be worthless or even harmful. Of course, they could also reveal something true. So, my fellow skeptics, take it with as large a grain of salt as you like, but: … More →
Goodbye Rule of Law, Hello Tyranny
The first paragraph of Paul Craig Roberts’ article is like an overture to the rest. And the overture is noisier than Tchaikovsky’s one of 1812. With bank fraudsters, torturers, and war criminals running free, the US Department of Justice (sic) has nothing better to do than to harass the famous Tennessee guitar manufacturer, Gibson, arrest organic food producers in California and send 12 abusive FBI … More →
The Deep Wound of the Sin of Contraception
There is an excellent article on Catholic Online website by a physician and father of nine, Dr. Dominic Pedulla, dealing with the personal shame that sears the hearts of married women, especially Catholic married women, who contracept. As a doctor, he is in the business of healing, so his provocative insight into the dis-ease caused by this nearly ubiquitous sin is based on the reality … More →
Reclassifying the Unspeakable
The eerie headline — “Are Mental Health Professionals Working to Normalize Pedophilia?” — provides me an unwelcome opportunity to revisit the theme I sounded recently in Normalcy as Evangelism. A group of academic pedophile lobbyists — i.e., “scientific” activists who think child molestation is OK — are trying to redefine perversion as normalcy.
Archbishop Sambi’s Curious Position on Fatima
The Remnant brings to our notice an extraordinary remark made my Robert Moynihan in the latest edition of the magazine he edits, Inside the Vatican. Dr. Moynihan has a record of reporting facts that bolster the traditionalist position on current events, even though he himself would not generally be considered a traditionalist. For the record, he is very informed.
Pro-Life Pilgrims Denied Entrance to Montreal Basilica by Custodian Priest: ‘Pro-Vie’ T-Shirts ‘Too Political’
So, the maxim, “the corruption of the best is the worst,” proves true again — this time, with the Sulpicians of Montreal, pathetically so. Montreal would have never survived were it not for the Sulpician priests who came to the island settlement in 1657. I am waiting for Monsignor Olier, the friend of saints and founder of the Society of Saint Sulpice, to rally his … More →
God’s Plan for America in the Light of Its Post-Columbian Catholic History
Wasting most of my ponderous day churning my mind for an irrefutable rebuttal to the notion that any “place” in space could be “empty” of any matter at all, or that such “empty space” could exist within the atom itself, I have not yet read Archbishop Gomez’ recent essay on immigration, wherein, I’ve been told, he highlights the Spanish Catholic roots of most of the … More →
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Remembering a Cardinal Who Valued Hedges, Who Loved the Latin Mass, Alas!
“And now I will shew you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be wasted” (Isaias 5:5). Rorate Caeli website has a tribute today in honor of Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani who died thirty-two years ago on August 3, 1979. Principal motivator, along with Antonio Cardinal Bacci, of the famous Ottaviani Intervention, a treatise exposing the … More →
SPLC Attacks Protestant Pro-Family Organizaions As Hate Groups
Still parading as a respectable civil rights organization, the fundraising syndicate known as the Southern Poverty Law Center has entered Evangelical Protestant pro-family groups onto their rosters of hateful people. Read about it at Human Events.
Your Apostasy Will Take You to Hell, Fr. Kennedy
“Apostasy is the total repudiation of the christian faith.” (Code of Canon Law, Canon 751) “[Father Peter Kennedy] said he had not believed in Jesus for some time, calling the son of God a ‘fable’ and a ‘metaphor’. (The Sydney Morning Herald) The point has been made a few times on this site. The liberal interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus has it that there … More →
Despite Having Cancer Catholic High School Girl Reached Out to Help Other Students
When I read what follows from John Shaughnessy’s article in the Indianapolis Archdiocesan newspaper, reprinted by CNA, I was especially impressed. It often happens that those who are suffering physically appreciate more the suffering of others, even when it is only emotional. Having been very shy myself in high school, I was always aware of how important it was for parents and teachers to encourage … More →
Auriesville Pilgrimage Reminder
The 16th annual “Pilgrimage for Restoration” is scheduled for September 23-25, 2011. To stay informed, sign up for the the pilgrimage mailing list. You can also connect via the Pilgrimage’s facebook group, and facebook event. As usual, Saint Benedict Center will be represented in the Pilgrimage this year. We encourage our readers to consider going on this spiritual Odyssey. Pilgrimage, after all, is a great … More →
