Abbot Notker Wolf, Abbot Primate of the Benedictine Order, has been quoted by the Legionaries of Christ’s National Catholic Register on the matter of the traditional Mass. In an article summing up what is expected of the papal agenda in … Continue reading
Being a Catholic apostolate set up on the Internet, we have become sitting ducks for some unscrupulous persons seeking their own monetary gain. There are many swindlers in this world, but there is surely a special punishment in the next … Continue reading
Nov. 22 (CWNews.com) – Lay Catholic activists in Massachusetts have sharply criticized the Boston office of Catholic Charities for advertising in a local gay newspaper. The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts said that a quarter-page ad in Bay Windows represented … Continue reading
2006 Conference Writeup from our Newsletter (292K PDF)
Update (3/1/2007): The Conference now has its own web site: http://www.sbcconference.com/ Further updates will be added to the new site.
Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, have mercy on us. Lord, have mercy on us. Christ, hear us. Christ, graciously hear us. God the Father of Heaven, Have mercy on us. God, the Son, Redeemer of the world, Have mercy … Continue reading
The brothers are looking for a young man to help us in the area of layout and graphic design, as part of the St. René Goupil donné program. In this program, men ages 15 and up work for room and … Continue reading
Are you crazy? Meet your patron. Saint Dymphna was the daughter of a pagan king in Ireland during the seventh century. When her mother (who had passed on her exquisite beauty to her daughter) died, the pagan king wanted to … Continue reading
Gibraltar houses a Marian shrine that was once a mosque. Gibraltar was under Islamic rule from 711 to 1462, except for the short interval from1309 to1333. The name of the peninsula is an Anglicized version of the Arabic “Jabal [Mount] … Continue reading
UPDATE: Our handouts (see below) made their debut on Saturday afternoon, when a group of about 55 or so from our chapel stood in front of a theater to pray and protest “The Da Vinci Code.” The police showed up … Continue reading
The loving woman who wipes Our Lord’s face in the sixth Station of the Cross is extra-biblical, or so most people think. But the saint, whose feast is on July 12, is thought by some to be the Haemorrhissa (woman … Continue reading
The gyrating daughter of Herodias met her death in a gruesome, winter-time danse macabre. Salome, it should be recalled, was the damsel whose shameful dancing was rewarded by Herod Antipas with the head of St. John the Baptist (Mt. 14:6-8; … Continue reading
Anyone traveling there from out of state, looking at a map, or reading a news item about Louisiana, may be surprised to see the word “parish” used as a political demarcation. After the 1803 Louisiana Purchase — arguably the best … Continue reading
Theodore Herzl (1860-1904), one of the pioneers of Zionism, had the distinction of winning Western Jews and European leaders to the cause of a Jewish state in Palestine. Toward the end of his career, he met with, among others, the … Continue reading
We English-speaking American Catholics often overlook (or are ignorant of) the accomplishments of our non-English-speaking Catholic forerunners on this continent. One such forerunner, who should be a household name to American Catholics, is St. Philip of Jesus. In 1597 — … Continue reading
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