We present a few photos of the new IHM Chapel, taken on the occasion of the High Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, August 22, 2013. Click here to see them on Google Plus, or look … Continue reading
We present a few photos of the new IHM Chapel, taken on the occasion of the High Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, August 22, 2013. Click here to see them on Google Plus, or look … Continue reading
This is a press release sent to local media outlets announcing the Solemn Mass that marks the grand opening of IHM Chapel. Thank you, Benefactors! Following the press release are a few facts about the new IHM Chapel that may … Continue reading
Ave Maria! The Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary express our deep fraternal respect and sympathy to our friends in the Franciscan Friars of the Immaculate. A most troubling situation has afflicted their community. We have avoided saying anything … Continue reading
Morality in Media protested the sale of the smutty magazines Playboy and Penthouse on US Military Bases. In response, Uncle Sam declared that said smut is not considered sexually explicit under federal law. This remarkable aptitude for redefining reality may … Continue reading
Assured by a professional web developer that what happened to Saint Benedict Center’s web site on Friday “doesn’t just happen,” the logical conclusion is that we were the victims of a hacker or group of hackers. The site is back … Continue reading
Saint Augustine famously said cantare amantis est, that is, “singing belongs to one who loves” (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472). (Josef Pieper wrote a book on this, and Robert Hickson gave a talk on it.) Apparently, the Doctor … Continue reading
The common view of matters demographic in Europe is that Europeans will become vastly outnumbered by Moslem immigrants on their own continent. That view is being challenged by an American scholar, Philip Jenkins, whose argument is resonating by some in … Continue reading
Two unrelated posts from two sites on the Internet bring to our attention the “devirilization” of the Church, that is, the stripping away of virtuous Catholic masculinity. The first one — whence comes the word — is from Rorate Caeli, … Continue reading
Two recent stories — the President’s embarrassing denunciation of religious education in Ireland and, more locally, a New Hampshire Superior Court Judge’s ruling against educational choice in the Granite State — reminded me of the fact that there has long … Continue reading
In a slap to the face of Catholic and other religious schools, Superior Court Judge John M. Lewis ruled that a privately funded tuition tax-credit program violated the New Hampshire State Constitution. His decision was hailed by Democratic Governor Maggie … Continue reading
If the reader will pardon a little fraternal bragging, my brother, Charles Villiarrubia, played tuba on this CD that was recorded by the Empire Brass some time, I think, in the 1990s. It’s hard not to like Gabrielli. Just imagine … Continue reading
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