Low Sunday, Quasi Modo Sunday, Dominica in Albis Deponendis, and now Mercy Sunday. I think the first Sunday after Easter is the most named on the Roman Church’s calendar. And for the last several years, it has also been richly … Continue reading
Author Archives: Brother André Marie
Pat Buchanan on the New York Times’ Professional Anti-Catholicism
The Holy Father has taken a beating in the pages of the New York Times and other venues. Sic transit gloria mundi. Pat Buchanan calls the spinmeisters on their mendacious and unvarnished anti-Catholicism. Better, he deftly contrasts reality with the … Continue reading
Pravda Defends the Pope!
We are indeed living in strange times! One of the various resurrections of the officially defunct organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, Pravda Online, has come to the defense of the Roman Pontiff. The article is translated … Continue reading
The Agony of the Resurrection
Every year around Holy Week, the publishers of America’s popular reading material let loose a volley of blasphemies against our Lord’s Resurrection. Citing one or another perfidious “noted scholar,” the glossy-covered journals that accost us at the checkout counter vie … Continue reading
The Unbearable Good News
A classic Joe Sobran column has recently been posted on his web site: The Words and Deeds of Christ. The column makes for some elevated Holy Week reading. It’s not a meditation on the Passion, mind you, but the “lapsed … Continue reading
What Distinguishes Spiritual Childhood from Natural Childhood
To remain little is to recognize one’s nothingness, to expect everything from God, as a little child expects everything from his father; it is to be disturbed about nothing, not to earn a fortune.
Even among poor people, as long as the child is quite small, they give him what he needs; but as soon as he has grown up, his father no longer wishes to feed him and says to him: “Work now, you can be self-supporting.” Well, so as never to hear that, I have not wished to grow up. Continue reading
Become a Reservoir, Then an Aqueduct
(This is the text of my March Letter, which promotes the Saint Augustine Institute of Catholic Studies.) Dear Friends and Benefactors, Laudetur Iesus Christus! When is God going to convert these United States to the Catholic Faith? Exactly how will … Continue reading
Good, Not-Often-Enough-Read Article
Brother Thomas Mary, author of They Fought The Good Fight, wrote an article many years ago that deserves wider circulation and attention. It’s called, simply, “Doctrinal Summary” — an accurate name, as the piece summarizes Father Feeney’s doctrinal stance, but … Continue reading
The Principal Virtues of the Child of God
We continue what be began in our last number, a three-part study of spiritual childhood by Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (1877-1964). St. Teresa of the Child Jesus reminds us that the principal virtues of the child of God are those … Continue reading
‘England should be a Catholic country again’
That’s the motion that was debated last week in London, at an event hosted by the Spectator and held at the Royal Geographical Society. And guess what — “the 700-strong sell-out audience voted overwhelmingly in favour of the motion”! Excerpt … Continue reading
The Innate Qualities of the Child
Father Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. (1877-1964) was one of the greatest theologians of modern times. He was a staunch anti-modernist, who engaged and exposed the twerpy upstarts responsible for the neo-modernist Nouvelle Théologie (“New Theology”). Much more than a controversialist, the … Continue reading
CDF Prefect Affirms: ‘Union with the Catholic Church is the goal of ecumenism’
One of the commentators on the relevant CWN article expressed it well: “It’s past time someone said this. Too often ecumenism is taken to mean the weakening of the teachings of the Church and the addition of non-Catholic ritual and … Continue reading
Yet Another Defense of Pius XII
When the enemies of the Church, the enemies of Christianity in general, and those who want to “hold” the Catholic hierarchy’s “feet to the fire” constantly jabber about Pius XII’s supposed complicity in the Nazi murder of Jews, it becomes … Continue reading
On Cults and Man Worship, Some Fighting Words
In “Christology for Joe,” an article that answers questions from a thoughtful young man, I made some observations about the way the English language has been Protestantized. In this number of the Ad Rem, I excerpt from that article the … Continue reading
Christology for Joe
Christology is that branch of sacred theology that studies the Incarnation. All theology is the study of God, for that is what the word means; this branch specifically studies the Man-God. Keeping in mind the precedence of the intellect to … Continue reading
