An update on our latest Ad Rem is in order. We have received several inquiries from interested persons, and replies to the commoner questions are now given on the Conference Site. For your convenience, we reproduce the questions below, with links.
We are not yet ready to post an itinerary, but some stops on the tour [...]
Anne Hendershott has an article in the on-line Wall Street Journal about Caroline Kennedy and the Kennedy family politicians’ predilection for abortion. She writes of the 1964 meeting at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Mass., the colloquium wherein the Kennedy politicos were coached on the Pharisaical sophistries involved in being pro-abortion as a politician while [...]
“But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.” (John 1:12)
On this Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, it was my privilege to hear the best sermon on the Holy Name that I’ve ever heard. It included a deep [...]
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The great Catholic priest, convert, and poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., was so affected by the sinking, in 1875, of a German ship, the Deutschland, in a storm off the coast of Bremen, and the heroism of five Franciscan sisters on board who died in the tragedy, that he wrote what he considered his [...]
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One of the presidents of the American United Steel Workers Union was a very devout Catholic. He was Phillip Murray (1886-1952), an Irishman whose family emigrated from Scotland in 1902 when he was sixteen years old. Murray, who had worked with his father in the coal mines, figured prominently in advocating the rights of workmen, [...]
The word “gossip” originally had a very noble meaning. It is contracted from “god-sibling” and was the term used for the godparent at baptism. In time the word was extended in usage and applied to any close friend, and, more frequently, for a woman’s closest friends that assisted at the delivery of her baby. [...]
(This posting was originally published on the IHM School Site.)
In the early morning of December 12, 2008, southwestern New Hampshire and a large section of Massachusetts lost power due to a devastating ice storm. The tops of trees snapped off, branches broke, entire trees were uprooted (one narrowly missing two of the Brothers). We (the [...]
I have a distinct memory, from my Catholic high school days back in the 1950s, of a black and white photograph in a history textbook. It was of a soldier in a funny-looking uniform; he had an even funnier-sounding name. He was identified as a member of the “Zouaves.” I don’t recall ever having a [...]
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So, tell me Brother Andre where is yore christian compassion and love who really are the sore losers? As for myself I have been living in anythig but sin for 28 years and that is a lot more then I can say for more my father who was in a traditional marriage with my mother and found it neccessary to scare the heck out of me constantly with his vulgar tirades and turn my beautiful mother into an emotional wreck a shell along with the rest of us.
Mary Ann: On this issue, I would say my Christian compassion and love consists in two things. First, in telling the truth. “Charity rejoices with the truth” says Saint Paul. Homosexuality is a grave moral problem and its acts are objectively mortally sinful. Holy Scripture could not be more clear, and the infallible teaching of the Catholic Church only affirms it. Second, my compassion and love consist in telling the person who sins that, with the grace of God, he can change, finding his true happiness in Christian faith, hope, and charity — which will ultimately bring him to heaven if he perseveres to the end.
I am sorry about your father and your upbringing in an apparently dysfunctional family. The fact that some “traditional marriages” (i.e., REAL marriages, or those between a man and a woman) are not happy, does not rule out the fact that marriage is defined as the union of one man with one woman. The abuse of a thing does not rule out its proper use (abusus non tollet usus). Police brutality does not argue against the institution of law enforcement. Governmental corruption does not justify anarchy. So, too, bad marriages do not rule out marriage, which was instituted by God as the union of one man with one woman.
Brother Andre Marie: Your response to Mary Ann is the best I have ever heard on this matter. You are the only person I know of besides me who has put in writing that homosexual acts are mortal sins. I think that communicating that is of the utmost importance. I cannot tell you how many Catholics cannot comprehend this, and many are actually shocked when I use the terms “homosexual act” and “mortal sin” in the same sentence. Again, thank you for this post. I hope many will read it.