Now that back-to-school sales are the order of the day, and we here at Immaculate Heart of Mary School are gearing up for the beginning of our academic year, it is apt that we turn our attention to a great … Continue reading
Author Archives: Brother André Marie
Deliberate Ambiguity and Contrived Culture Wars as Divide et Impera
Yesterday, I posted an interview that Mike Church did with Frank Wright. It was excellent for several reasons, but what I found most penetrating about Mr. Wright’s analysis was his explanation of how the oligarchs who run Great Britain — … Continue reading
What’s All This Violence in England?
Rather than allow the mainstream media dictate its mendacious narrative to you, if you would like to find out what’s really going on in the U.K. — we speak of the violence sparked in Southport — here is the reliable … Continue reading
The Paris Olympics: ‘Somatolatry’ vs. the Rights of God
A lot has been said about the blasphemous mockery of the Last Supper featured in the four-hour opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. There are two points I would like to focus on, the first of which I read articulated … Continue reading
US State Department Interference in Papal Election, a Father Feeney Connection
It came to my attention via X the other day, thanks to a posting by Stephen Kokx, that a declassified US State Department telegram from 1958 reveals possible top-level government interference in papal elections. Here is an embedded JPG image, … Continue reading
Voices of Catholic Political Conscience, Past and Present
While we on this website do not tell people how to vote, putting forth information to educate the electorate is perfectly within our purview here at Catholicism.org. If, as Aristotle thought, politics is part of the philosophical discipline of ethics, … Continue reading
Jerusalem: Lost Crusader Altar Discovered in Church of the Holy Sepulchre
In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, a team involving historians from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) and representatives of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) stumbled upon the largest known medieval altar, which had been considered lost for … Continue reading
Priest ‘Cancelled’ for Preaching the Necessity of the Catholic Church for Salvation
John-Henry Westen interviewed the “cancelled” priest, Father Jeff Fasching, of the Wichita, Kansas, Diocese. According to the discussion in the video, Father Fasching was removed as pastor because he taught difficult and unpopular Catholic truths from the pulpit of his … Continue reading
Father Amandus Ivanschiz, OSPPE: Mass in C for Four Voices
Father Amandus Ivanschiz was a Slavic-Austrian member of the Pauline Order, that is, the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit (OSPPE). These are the monks perhaps most famous to Americans as the inhabitants of the Jasna Góra (Bright Mountain) … Continue reading
Why Is the Eucharist Called ‘The Bread of Angels’?
Why do we call the Holy Eucharist the “Bread of Angels,” even though the Holy Angels, being pure spirits, cannot partake of It? Our Lord’s spiritual Soul and Divinity have immateriality in common with the Angels, but His Body and … Continue reading
‘The Litany of Saint Francis Xavier,’ Music by Jan Dismas Zelenka
Did you know that “Composed litanies to this saint [Francis Xavier] were particular to the royal court in Dresden where he was honoured as patron Saint”? That fascinating Catholic fun fact is one I just learned myself because I bothered … Continue reading
Spain: Thousands of Pilgrims to Be Denied Traditional Mass at the Shrine of Covadonga
Spanish pilgrims from a group that has celebrated the Traditional Latin Mass at the Shrine of Covadonga for the last three years have been denied that right this year. Reported at Rorate five days ago, this is not new news, … Continue reading
A Brief Liturgical Commentary on Matt. 12:50
One of the best ways to read and understand Holy Scripture is through the prism of the Church’s traditional liturgy. This authentic Lex Orandi of the Church’s tradition is not only safe for her children, but also highly illuminating of … Continue reading
Going My Way on the Camino de Santiago
Thanks to the amazing generosity of one of our benefactors, I recently went on an intense, two-week pilgrimage to Spain, lasting from June 17 to 29. Flying into and out of Madrid, our little band of twenty-two pilgrims went to … Continue reading
Controlling the Catholic Narrative?
(Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture) — It’s the Age of the Laity and all that, but Stephen Millies, writing for the National Catholic Reporter, worries that things are getting out of hand. “Who owns the brand?” The honest answer probably is that … Continue reading
