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.”
A peculiar time it was for the Church in the latter part of the thirteenth century. No, there was no shortage of saints, or great theologians, philosophers, inventors, and good rulers; they were plentiful, but for almost three years there was a shortage of a pope. From the death of Pope Clement IV, November 29, 1268, to the election of Pope Gregory IX, September 1, 1271, the chair of Peter was vacant. The fifteen cardinals making up the sacred college were divided into two camps, with French and Italian interests, and they could not agree on a candidate with the required two-thirds majority. Nor were they even in Rome at the time, but inViterbo, about sixty miles north.
No amount of lobbying could sway either party to choose a compromise candidate. Finally, the mayor of the town locked the cardinals in the episcopal palace and informed them they could not leave without electing a pope. Hence we have the word “conclave,” which means “under key.” Well being locked up did not cure their obstinacy. Neither did the locals’ removal of the roof over the cardinals’ residence in order to let in the Holy Ghost. The next tactic was to reduce their food to one meal a day. Still no compromise. After a few weeks it was just bread and water. The kings of France and Sicily, both good Catholics — the former being the son of Saint Louis IX — had had enough. They came up with a solution. The cardinals were to choose six delegates from among their number and these would must agree on someone to fill the holy office. I do not know what the — or else — was.
It was a given that the cardinals had to go outside the college if they were going to find someone agreeable to both parties. And so they did. They chose Teobaldo Visconti, an Italian, but also the archdeacon of Liège, which is a diocese in France. The fact that he was not even a priest was not a negative factor because it was Visconti’s universal reputation as a man skilled in diplomacy and as one having an keen eye for justice that moved the cardinals to elect him.
The archdeacon, however, at that time was on a pilgrimage to the holy land. It took a long time for the news to reach him and, after accepting the call, a long time for him to come to Rome. Meanwhile the Church waited for their pilgrim pope to come home.
Gregory IX turned out to be a wonderful pope. He was a man of peace who achieved peace in Christendom through his personal holiness and fair-minded arbitrations. He presided over the ecumenical council of Lyons (1274-76), which, for a short time, reunited the schismatic Greeks to ecclesial unity with Rome; and he exacted an annual collection in every diocese in order to raise soldiers to go and win back the Christian lands that were lost after the failure of the eighth crusade. This ninth crusade never materialized. Pope Gregory IX also established laws for future papal elections in order to prevent such a long vacancy in the Papal See from ever happening again. In the diocese of Rome he is revered as a saint and has a feast day, February 16, but he has never been canonized
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