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Christ’s Commission and Obama’s Mandate: A Teachable Moment

The big news in American Catholic circles is the Obama administration’s “contraceptive mandate.” This latest unethical intrusion of big governmnet stipulates that employers, including religious institutions, provide their employees with insurance coverage for contraceptives, sterilizations, and specific abortifacients such as Ella and Plan B.

Catholic Action League Executive Director C. J. Doyle summarized the situation: “If this unprecedented aggression against the religious freedom rights of Catholics is allowed to stand, then virtually all Catholic institutions — colleges, universities, secondary schools, hospitals, charities, service providers, fraternal orders, and advocacy organizations — will be forced to pay for procedures, devices, and chemicals abhorrent to the consciences of Catholics.”

by Brother André Marie February 4th, 2012

College President’s Letter to NH Legislators on HHS Mandate


Brian Kelly

The following is an open letter that Dr. William Fahey sent to New Hampshire’s senators and Congressman Guinta voicing his outrage over President Obama and the HHS  mandate requiring submission of all employers to provide contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortions under so-called health insurance for employees.


Restore Communion On The Tongue Only


Brother André Marie

Two priests, Fr. Andrew Wise and Fr. John Speekman, have started a petition effort on their blog called “Restore Communion On The Tongue Only.” They, and the 2484 (so far) signatories to their petition, are asking the Pope to restore the ancient and traditional Roman practice of reception of Holy Communion that was obligatory until Pope Paul VI approved the 1969 Vatican Instruction, Memoriale Domini.


Color Flyer of Chapel Project


View the new color PDF flyer on our IHM Chapel building project.

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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 …


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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?


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We’re Headed Straight for the Future

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by   October 15th, 2008
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Laudetur Iesus Christus! In the midst of an election cycle become tedious, I’ve named this column with a comically clunky turn of phrase from a past presidential election. While it did its original user little good, the statement somehow expresses my present sentiments. Here is how “we’re headed straight for the future”:

New Site. Regular readers of this site have no doubt already noticed the overhaul — you are, after all, an intelligent readership. After a few bugs are worked out and some material from the old site is brought into the new platform, the improved Catholicism.org will be fully functional, with daily news links, as well as regular columns and articles.

Newly Professed Religious. As announced ahead of time, Brothers Louis Marie and Maximilian Maria have professed their final vows as Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Deo Gratias! This happened on October 11, the feast of the Divine Maternity. Please pray for them, for more vocations, and for the perseverance of all our religious brothers and sisters.

A New CAT. No, we haven’t broken down and gotten a feline pet for the priory. I speak here of the Catholic America Tour, whose maiden voyage will be underway this weekend; destination: Wisconsin. If you are interested in sponsoring a talk at some venue local to you, please learn more about it.

So, you see, we really ARE headed straight for the future!

Hopefully, that future will be a Catholic America, and sooner rather than later. Sometimes a life-threatening illness renders someone more supple to divine grace. The reminder of our own mortality can wake us up to our last end. Could this happen on a national scale? The present economic mess is a reminder of our nation’s mortality. Orestes Brownson said that Americans have the sins that prosperity brings. Losing that prosperity, he reasoned, could be good for the Faith in America. Whether or not the present growing calamity will have conversion as its terminus, we can at least affirm with Saint Paul: “we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.”

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