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Traditionalism is an Affirmation

One of the most important things for a person to have is an identity. This is why names are so important to us. Adam was given power to name things in the Garden of Eden, showing that he had dominion over the rest of creation, including Eve, whom he named. When a child finds out that a large, strange-looking animal has a name, he finds comfort in the fact, knowing that, if it has a name, and if Daddy can identify it, the thing must not be all that terrifying. It is known.

Traditional Catholics, or traditionalists, name themselves thus because of their embrace of the traditions of the Church.

by Brother André Marie January 17th, 2012

Brother André Marie to Speak in Louisiana


The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

On Wednesday, February 8, 2012, Brother André Marie will be speaking at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Lacombe, Louisiana. The title of his talk is “Penance and the Conversion of America.” It will begin at 6:30 PM.

The talk is sponsored by the Mysterium Fidei Latin …


Obama Says Social Policies Motivated by Bible and Teaching of Jesus


Brian Kelly

When most of our foreign aid goes to the militarization of bogus allies and population reduction of African nations through so-called health care, one is again stunned to hear the president ignore these facts and pretend that the purpose of foreign aid is to help feed the poor and the refugees and provide medicines for the sick.


Temporary Fruits of Ecumenical Reflection


Brother André Marie

From the Holy Father’s Address to the Participants of the Plenary Session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith:
Also the study documents produced by the various ecumenical dialogues have great relevance. Such texts cannot be ignored, because they are an important, though temporary, fruit of the common reflection matured throughout the years. Nevertheless, they are to be recognized


Obama and Administration Wage War Against Pro-Lifers Freedom of Conscience


Brian Kelly

By imperial edict, and as a dark insult to pro-lifers who were preparing their annual march to the Capitol to protest Roe v Wade and the ensuing murders of the pre-born, President Obama and self-deluded “Catholic” Kathleen Sabelius of the Department of Health and Human Services  have given new meaning to the word dictatorial. Genuinely Catholic and pro-life employers have been issued an ultimatum. They have one year to decide if they will serve God or the leviathan state. What boldness! What injustice!


Is There Fight Left in Hungary?


The Philosopher

We hope so. Daniel McAdams exposes the reheated communist apparatchiks and their fellow revolutionary travelers who run the European Union, and who are trying to bring the nation of Saint Stephen to its knees. Now the Hungarians are taking to the streets to insist that their government not be cowed by the threats of a despotic EU leadership.
Are the Hungarians at it again? Fifty-six years ago Hungarians landed what was ultimately the fatal blow to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.


Multiracial Protest against SPLC ‘Bigots’


The Philosopher

Said one black pastor to homosexual activists: “how dare you compare your wicked, deviant, immoral, self-destructive, anti-human sexual behavior to our beautiful skin color.” What merited such a lambasting? The SPLC’s smearing pro-family organizations as “hate groups” for opposing the homosexual agenda.

Wouldn’t it be good to hear Catholic priests speaking with such conviction?


Agribusiness vs. Agriculture


Brother André Marie

Do you know the difference? If not, I suggest a glance at a blog I’ve just come across: Catholic Land Movement. In reply to our question, there is a posting on that site called “An Authentic Agriculture.” Here is the first paragraph:
Today we refer to what the giant monoculture farmers do as agriculture. This is actually a misnomer. What the vast majority of farmers do today is in actuality agribusiness. This is an important and essential distinction.


Hungary Capitulating?


The Philosopher

This, from RT: “Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has promised to revise the constitution that Europeans say has breached EU rules. The European Commission earlier this week mentioned curbs on the independence of the Hungarian central bank, the early retirement of judges and supervision of the country’s data …


Prayer for Church Unity Is a Prayer For Our Own Conversion and For Non-Catholics To Enter the True Church


Brian Kelly

It’s that simple, as Father Paul Wattson intended it in petitioning Rome to approve the liturgical octave. Pope Saint Pius X approved of the octave in 1908 and Pope Benedict XV promoted its observance throughout the whole Catholic Church. The eight days of prayer begin on January 18, the feast of the Chair of Saint Peter, and end on January 25, the feast of the conversion of Saint Paul. The Holy Father in his general audience yesterday called for “interior conversion” saying that the Unity Octave must not be limited to nothing more than “cordiality and cooperation.”


A Note on NH Pro-Life Victory


Brother André Marie

A little note about the pro-life victory in Saint Benedict Center’s home state. Read the following, from Lifenews.com:
Michael Tierney, an Alliance Defense Fund-allied attorney in Manchester, New Hampshire who helped promote the language, added, “It is time to get New Hampshire taxpayers out of the abortion business. Planned Parenthood’s business model is centered on abortion, and New Hampshire taxpayers want no part in it.”


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Two BC Priests Among “Catholics” Who Signed Letter Supporting Sebelius

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by   March 05th, 2009
Catholicism.org

Another “Catholic” theology professor from Boston College also signed the letter, the feminist writer Lisa Sowle Cahill, past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. This woman, in an October 16, 2008, article for the National Catholic Reporter, excoriated Archbishop Burke, Bishop Martino, and other prelates for using their influence in educating Catholics about the moral consequences of voting for pro-abortion candidates. She took offense that Martino dared to call abortion “homocide.” Then she writes:

Abortion is a moral tragedy for Catholics and many Americans. But when the Catholic church is perceived to be cheerleaders for one political party a rich faith tradition is badly damaged and loses its prophetic voice. Bishops should correct Catholic politicians who misrepresent Catholic teaching on life and justice issues in public interviews.

A moral tragedy! Why, Ms Cahill? And why is abortion a “moral” tragedy, if it is not exactly what Bishop Martino said it was. And, in your mind, are the aborted babies not to be counted among the “many Americans” victimized by this “tragedy”?  Why are the pro-aborts afraid to talk about the baby?  Past head of the Catholic Theological Society of America and she does not think abortion is homicide. At least her fellow feminist, atheist writer Camille Paglia, admits what everybody that can think knows in their heart: abortion is murder. “I have always frankly admitted that abortion is murder,” she once wrote in a piece published on Salon.com website, “the extermination of the powerless by the powerful.” Nevertheless Professor Paglia boasts that she is still a “firm supporter” of abortion “rights.”

CatholicOnLine reports: MANASSAS, VA (Cardinal Newman Society) – Half of the 26 Catholic activists, scholars and theologians who signed a statement publicly supporting President Barack Obama’s selection of pro-abortion Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius as Secretary of Health and Human Services are professors employed by Catholic universities, The Cardinal Newman Society revealed today. Full article here.

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  • Jessica Manfre

    I have been catholic my whole life. My family raised me as such and I made my confirmation and communion at 11 years of age. I may be classified as a lapsed catholic, however, as it’s been a while since I’ve followed it closely.

    I have always felt in my heart that abortion was wrong. I am pro-life, but for myself.

    I believe that God gives us the power of choice and free will. I choose to believe that abortion is wrong and would never do it. However, I would never presume to tell someone else what to do, so in a way, I suppose I am pro-choice, but for other people.

    While I know abortion is wrong, God did give us free will. We cannot make hard decisions for other people, they must see the right way themselves.

  • http://catholicism.org Brian Kelly

    Jessica,

    God gave us a free will to chose the “Good” not evil. In choosing evil the will becomes enslaved because it turns away from God and His law and takes a step toward self-destruction. Jesus said that it is the Truth that sets us free. The intellect was created to know what is, not what is not; to know reality not falsehood. Pro-abortionists refuse to acknowledge the reality that their intellect informs them of. Read Camille Paglia’s admission again.

    If you deny objective truth you deny the very object that is matter for the act of intellection. If you deny the objective reality of what is good and what is evil you deny the freedom of the will, because it is free precisely because it can chose the good for which it was created to possess.

    This is what the pope meant when he decried the “moral relativism” of our age. If someone denies the Ten Commandments, for example, they are putting chains around thier will and contracting their freedom instead of expanding it to embrace reality, rather than embracing evil, which is the absence of good.