That wisdom could be “romantic” would strike many as odd. This is because, generally speaking, neither romance nor wisdom is properly considered. The former is mistaken for lust, while the latter is lost in a sea of empty esotericism, or consigned to simple disregard. Since the theme of our upcoming conference is “The Romance of Wisdom,” I feel bound to explain how these two nouns, seemingly so distant, can possibly be conjoined.
No question where this Catholic layman, Edmund Adamus, stands. He speaks with a clear tone of righteous indignation. Some question his timing, being that the pope will be visiting Britain in two weeks. Perhaps he is hoping that such a forthright assessment of Anglo-reality (and western reality) will preempt what could be a mere diplomatic mission into being a more provocative one that will truly spur on the loyal Catholics who have the potential to become a catalyst for a Catholic contra-reform in Britain.
Ahora hay un blog en español que defiende el dogma católico “No hay salvación fuera de la Iglesia Católica.” Está aún en construcción, pero tiene un post que se llama, “Las tres definiciones dogmáticas del dogma ‘Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus,’” que contiene en español las tres definiciones infalibles …
He had a vision for his country, inspired within him by a Catholic friend, that for China to be a great country it must find its greatness in the Christian religion. Lu (Lou) Zhengxiang was born to Protestant parents in 1871. He converted after meeting his future wife, Berthe Bovy, who was a Catholic Belgian. He represented China in 1919 at Versailles, the only representative who refused to sign the Treaty because it left Japan in control of certain territory in China that it had seized during the World War.
The most current information on the conference is on our SBC Conferences site. You can now register for the conference online at store.Catholicism.org. Keep your eye on Catholicism.org for the final conference schedule with complete list of speakers, times, etc.
I would like to bring to the attention of our readers a new blog — new to me, anyway — called The Holy Unia Blog. It’s an Eastern-Rite and pro-extra ecclesiam nulla salus blog that is “Promoting Holy Unia. Rejecting Ecumenism. Fighting Modernism. Rejecting Latinizations.” There’s nothing of a “Latin Rite is inferior” attitude about the contents. It promotes great apostles of Church unity like Mar Ivanios of Trivandrum.
Vladimir Soloviev gives this wonderful meditation on the Petrine office in Russia and the Universal Church (reprinted as The Russian Church and the Papacy). He is writing about St. Peter’s being made the Rock of the Church by our Lord and then, almost immediately, being called “Satan” (Mt. 16:18, 23).
In New Ideas on the Church and Salvation, I addressed the positions taken by Dr. Jeffrey Mirus in his piece, Salvation for Non-Catholics: Not a New Idea. Here, I will make some observations concerning the first of his two follow-ups: Sound Off! Comments on Salvation for Non-Catholics.
Dr. Mirus proffers the opinion that, to be damned for their unbelief, not only do people need to have heard the teachings of Jesus and the Church, they must have been convinced of them.
Father Michael Rodriquez, who has been mentioned on this site before, was recently featured on a local television program in El Paso, Texas. The issue under discussion was Church teaching on Homosexuality. You can see the video here. Notice, if you watch it, how this priest keeps …
The head of the Supreme Apostolic Signatura, the Church’s highest court, has clarified certain liturgical questions in light of Canon Law. His comments were made in the preface to a book celebrating the third anniversary of Summorum Pontificum.
Excerpts from the CNA article:
Pat Buchanan reports on Nancy Pelosi and company’s $26 billion loan from China to save the jobs of other government bureaucrats whose jobs were threatened. Their jobs were threatened because their employees (state and local governments) felt the need to balance budgets. Federal government glut is sapping the life blood out of American families and putting future generations in debt to hostile communists. This is not what’s called “political prudence.”
The groaning of the peddler’s cart
Is droning slowly through the mart of Alexandria.
The climbing sun blows as he goes
Higher still and higher,
A wreath of golden burning fire,
On that far city of the Orient.
The wilting blooms are scorched and bent
And the flags that pave the street
Blister the small girl’s brown feet.
A warm mist from off the ocean’s drifting spray
Falls on the ancient ramparts all the summer day.
Shadowless stands the spiring temple steeple,
Where many, very many pleasant people
Drowse with the moisture ladening the air.
Sleep on the hard, gray pavements of the square.
Some idlers passing by are driven into the soft, cool shade
Of awnings – which over their motley markets some Persian merchants made.
Not even for years has such celestial brightness shone.
The heavy moments lumber on.
All is quiet save for the sullen thud
Of the Nile, coating its banks with mud -
Then riding onto join the color of the sea, Majestic and eternally.
There is no sound or stirring of men – and then – The water-clocks dripping in the sun,
strike one!
That was a solemn stroke that broke the siesta silence of the day.
No sooner had it rung then the sword of the executioner had swung.
Through a column of air, then flesh, then bone, then flesh, then air,
And into the long black hair of Catherine of Alexandria!
In the dark evening a small rivulet
and flood of her young blood was
on the marble floor -
Shone in the light of the moon
And belied the deed that was done at noon.
Saint Catherine of Alexandria we read of your triumphs that brought you to Heaven’s height,
And wish you, who read by the light of the stars, a glorious birthday night!
We know that your soul is wandering out from your Palace of Mirth
And is near us and with us and somewhere about is whispering or singing,
“Heaven is better than earth! Heaven is better than earth!”
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