Earlier this month, Brother Matthew, M.I.C.M., of Saint Benedict Center in Still River, Massachusetts, gave a fine presentation on the history of Father Leonard Feeney and the “Boston Heresy Case.” The talk is embedded in the YouTube video below. It … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Catholicism.org Migration is Done!
The migration of Catholicism.org to its new servers is complete. Things are functioning well. We’ve posted a new article since the site has migrated: The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail, Part II. One complication is that when our email … Continue reading
Some Down Time This Weekend for Catholicism.org As We Improve Things
We’re implementing some improvements on our site. Beginning tonight at 8:00 p.m., EST, the final stages of our site’s migration from one server to another will commence. There is the possibility of down time. When the DNS server is changed, … Continue reading
The Palestinians, the Amalekites, and the ‘Dark Passages’: Does Bibi Think He’s God?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invoked the Hebrew Scriptures as a justification for the Genocide in Gaza. He did so when he mentioned “Amalek” in connection with the current atrocities being committed by the IDF against the Palestinians. To … Continue reading
The World’s Most Documented Genocide in History
Here is a brief video with a summary of current events in Gaza. Its claims are documented with quick excerpts from news feeds showing what the purveyors of genocide are doing and what is their intent in their own words. … Continue reading
Considerations on Rocky Road and Purity
To the best of my knowledge rocky road is chocolate ice cream with some toppings mixed into it. The reason I am unsure is because I haven’t eaten it too many times in my life. I was one of those … Continue reading
Human Suffering in Gaza, the Numbers
Using media reports posted on 12/24/2023,1 I compiled some composite Palestinian casualty figures on the Gaza war. While multiple sources have identified the number of women and children killed, I have seen no clear figures on the total civilian versus … Continue reading
An Addition Game for the Itchy Eared
Solve this math problem, and then find out what your answer tells you about yourself: 2+2=__ If you said four, congratulations! This answer is lovely and quaint in an old-fashioned sort of way. It shows you to be loyal and … Continue reading
The Christmas Proclamation from the Roman Martyrology
Here is my reading of the Roman Martyrology for Christmas, recorded in 2019 and graciously posted by Steve Cunningham to his Sensus Fidelium YouTube channel. The reading is only a little over a minute. To see the full text, with … Continue reading
Israel’s Vatican Ambassador Accuses Jersusalem Patriarchate of ‘Blood Libel,’ Admits IDF May Have Killed Unarmed Catholic Women
Responding to the statement made by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem accusing the IDF of “murdering” two unarmed Catholic women on church property “in cold blood,” the Israeli ambassador to the Holy See, Raphael Schutz, accused the Latin Patriarchate of … Continue reading
Israeli Sniper Murders Two Christian Women ‘In Cold Blood’ at Holy Family Parish in Gaza
The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem released a statement concerning the “murder,” on December 16 (Saturday), of two Christian women by an IDF sniper at Holy Family Parish in Gaza. The word murder was used in the Patriarchate’s statement, which is … Continue reading
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Can the US Say NO to Israel and Ukraine?
For those who might dismiss Chris Hedges’ recently posted video because Mr. Hedges is a liberal, we present a conservative libertarian, Judge Andrew Napoletano, interviewing Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson — the Republican former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin … Continue reading
The Myth of the Medieval Tritone Ban
Was the musical interval known as the “tritone” really banned in the Middle Ages? Was it really seen as diabolus in musica (“the devil in music”) by the Catholics — mostly monks — responsible for our beautiful patrimony of Gregorian … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: ‘The Genocide in Gaza’
A very informative video is embedded below. It is a talk by the journalist, Chris Hedges, on “The Genocide in Gaza.” This is a very present humanitarian crisis which is also a moral matter of utmost importance. U.S. taxpayers are … Continue reading
The Principle of Tradition in the Liturgical Life of the Church
Embedded in the video below is Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s lecture given at the Pax Liturgica Meeting at the Augustinianum in Rome on October 27, 2023. The venerable Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of St. Mary in Astana spoke on the … Continue reading