In the fourth quarter, with a month and a half till graduation, the Fighting Irish are getting mauled… by a fighting Irishman… Pat Buchanan asks: Is Notre Dame Still Catholic?
Author Archives: The Philosopher
The Nannie State Profiles Pro-lifers and Ron Paul Supporters as Possible Terrorists
According to a new report by a government information collection agency, “militia members” could include pro-lifers, Ron Paul supporters, libertarians, and other law-abiding Americans. The liberal ACLU is crying foul, and so are conservatives. Fox News reports:
Impeach the Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts & Letters at Millsaps College!
Professor Robert McElvaine is the Elizabeth Chisholm Professor of Arts & Letters at Millsaps College, an author, and is known for his anti-Christian diatribes. He is a blogger on Huffington Post, writes for numerous other liberal outlets, and is a giddy … Continue reading
Fr. Euteneuer Slams Senator Brownback for Endorsing Sebelius
In today’s Human Life International e-mail newsletter, Father Thomas Euteneuer writes a scathing indictment of Senator Brownback for approving Governor Sebelius’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services. “I am not a politician,” he writes, “I am a priest.
Pope Gregory XVI on Mixed Marriages and No Salvation outside the Church
I have erred. A couple of weeks ago, I bombed it. Yes, I — the Philosopher — made a colossal mistake. It seems I imprudently trusted a friend who sent me a quote alleged to be from the pen of … Continue reading
Shrove Tuesday
The day before Ash Wednesday, in all English speaking countries except the United States, is called Shrove Tuesday. “To shrive” (active voice), or to “be shrove” (passive) in Old English meant not only to confess one’s sins and be absolved, … Continue reading
Here’s One for the Feminists
The unnatural phenomenon we know as feminism has de-feminised the female. Some former feminists are reckoning with this stark reality. That there are important differences between the sexes — something children understand and are made to “unlearn” in state-sponsored propaganda … Continue reading
Twenty-Four Suicides in One Month Among U.S. Soldiers
This was in January. That is more than died in combat in both Afghanistan and Iraq for that same month. Some are surmising that the long deployments may account for some of the tragic deaths.
NY Times on the SSPX
The New York Times and its liberal progressivist sources have let it out. Wouldn’t you know it… they aren’t pleased that the Holy See has lifted the excommunications of the four traditionalist bishops of the SSPX. We were all dying … Continue reading
I’m not saying this actually happened, but…
If you were a putatively excommunicated Bishop in a group accused (rightly or wrongly) of being schismatic, and if your group (let’s call it a “society”) were reportedly in negotiations with Rome — only you don’t especially want your group … Continue reading
How Did THIS Happen? Preventing Birth Makes for Fewer Humans?
File this one under D for “Duh.” Mr. Carl Djerassi is an octogenarian who has the unenviable distinction of having made a key discovery in the creation of the pill. He is now saying, in effect, that it was all … Continue reading
How Support for Abortion Became Kennedy Dogma
Anne Hendershott has an article in the on-line Wall Street Journal about Caroline Kennedy and the Kennedy family politicians’ predilection for abortion. She writes of the 1964 meeting at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Mass., the colloquium wherein the Kennedy … Continue reading
A new look at the old Mass
This article may serve as a helpful introduction for traditional-rite newcomers. Father Kenneth Myers, a priest ordained for the Diocese of Pittsburgh in 1980, on the traditional Mass. The perspective is a pastoral one. Read the article at 4marks.com.
The Gospel According to Barack
The Christian Order web site published this article by Joel McDurmon, who is, apparently, a sola-scriptura Protestant. Christian Order begs off the “evangelical” theology, but endorses the meat of the article. President-elect Obama ardently sought the Evangelical and “born again” … Continue reading
A Brief Metaphysical Excursus on the Words “First” and “Second”
If you have survived the magniloquent name of this little piece, you should easily get though the rest, for the grandiose title heads a subject matter well within reach. It occurred to me while I was deep in thought — … Continue reading
