Recorded on March 25, 1998: Fr. Peter Damian Mary Fehlner, FI and Mother Angelica promote the Catholic teaching of Our Lady as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
Author Archives: Brother André Marie
On the Utility of Quoting the Talmud
In my most recent Ad Rem, On the Boy Jesus and the Doctors of the Law, I did something I rarely do. I quoted from the Talmud. Someone on social media took exception to my doing so, and I explained … Continue reading
Unity or Something Else? King Charles III meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican
Michael Haynes, an English Catholic journalist who is part of the Holy See Press Corps, has written what strikes me as a balanced account of the meeting between Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III for One Peter Five. Below … Continue reading
On the Boy Jesus and the Doctors of the Law
Saint Luke, the only Gentile author of the New Testament, and the “historian of Christ’s meekness” (as Dante styles him), narrates several episodes in the life of Jesus that no other evangelist writes of, including the second, fourth, and fifth … Continue reading
Controversial Big News from the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (‘Transalpine Redemptorists’)
Below is a message from the website of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (“Transalpine Redemptorists”). This community, who were at one point affiliated with the SSPX, made a canonical reconciliation with ecclesiastical officials under the now defunct Pontifical … Continue reading
Helen Andrews’ ‘The Great Feminization’ and the Church
An online magazine called Compact has published an intelligent and provocative article by Helen Andrews, “The Great Feminization.” In a nutshell, what Andrews accomplishes — complete with supporting statistics and scary anecdotes — is to trace the development of contemporary … Continue reading
Edification from the Servant of God, Cardinal Merry Del Val, and Pope Leo XIV
The Vatican website has posted the Address of Pope Leo XIV to Participants in the Meeting of Studies on Cardinal Rafael Merry Del Val. I recommend you read it because it is very edifying. There are critics of the post-Vatican … Continue reading
The Ordinary Magisterium vs. ‘A Teacher Established in the Church,’ Who Errs
As was the last Ad Rem, this number is an edited excerpt from the talk I am soon to give at Saint Benedict Center’s annual conference. In Chapter ten of the Commonitory, Saint Vincent considers what we should do when … Continue reading
A Yiddish Curse
I don’t usually share hate mail, but this the first time we’ve received a Yiddish curse via our contact form on Catholicism.org, and it somehow seems worth noting. This came in the digital mailbag last night: The Jewish Nation will … Continue reading
Gary Potter Has Died, May He Rest in Peace
Longitime friends of Saint Benedict Center, attendees of our annual conference, and readers of Catholicism.org will be saddened, as we were, to learn of the death of our old friend and collaborator, Mr. Gary Potter. Today, I was informed by … Continue reading
On the Claim that Charlie Kirk is a Christian Martyr
Charlie Kirk was murdered, his wife widowed, his children (one in utero) left fatherless. This is a terrible tragedy. In its wake there is much sloppy talk about Charlie being a Christian martyr. Catholics must refrain from this for grave … Continue reading
Holding the Line: St. Vincent of Lérins vs. the Neo-Modernist Tempest
How do we navigate the turbulent waters of twenty-first century Catholicism? We see many good things in the Church today, to be sure, but we also see massive blow-back against them from a dying generation of neo-modernist clerics in high … Continue reading
On Charlie Kirk, from a Compassionate and Genuinely Catholic Perspective
Charlie Kirk’s death was a horrible tragedy by any measure. A young, intelligent, and very promising conservative activist who accomplished more in his thirty-one years than many would hope to accomplish in a lifetime, Kirk was also a married man … Continue reading
The Jewish Mystery and the Universal Church
There was an informative exchange on Catholicism.org when Charles Coulombe’s article, “Which Christian Nation Are We Defending?,” provoked a reply from the redoubtable Henry Sire, “The Kingdom of God in Human History.” The exchange was a friendly one between two … Continue reading
The Architecture of Love: Faith, Hope, and Charity
We have a question box here at Saint Benedict Center, and, recently, there were two questions about love that I had to answer. As this material might be of broader interest, I am turning my answers into this short Ad … Continue reading
