The AP’s Nicole Winfield gives us this story, under the headline, “Pope Opens Critical Week for Reform, Family Issues”: Pope Francis on Monday opened the most critical week of his year-old papacy: Two commissions of inquiry on Vatican finance are … Continue reading
Author Archives: The Philosopher
Dr. Anthony Esolen on How Common Core Devalues Great Literature
(Crisis Magazine) The Common Corers get things exactly backwards. You do not read The Wind in the Willows so that you can gain some utilitarian skill for handling “text.” If anything, we want our children to gain a little bit … Continue reading
US ‘Ukraine-gate’ Threatens to Blow Up Into Major Conflagration
From Daniel McAdams on LewRockwell.com: US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt were caught in a phone conversation leaked yesterday actively plotting over which of the Ukrainian opposition figures should take which position in … Continue reading
I’m Just Sayin’
Many progressivists who were baptized Catholic but subsequently lapsed will refer to themselves as “Cultural Catholics.” But the individuals I have heard describe themselves thus do not embrace anything like a Catholic culture at all. Rather, they cling to the … Continue reading
The Pro-Life Movement Is Ill
This is so NOT inasmuch as it is pro-life, but inasmuch as it is weak on birth control. Michael Voris gives us a little glimpse of how moribund the movement is. Why? Because Catholics have not done their job to … Continue reading
MIT Prof Challenges ‘Climate-Change’ Orthodoxy
(CBS) MIT Professor Richard Lindzen is a leading international expert on climate change. … “Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. The opportunities for taxation, for policies, for control, for crony capitalism … Continue reading
Fox’s Catholic Conservatives: Neither Catholic nor Conservative
Without any effort at judging the internal forum of others, we can conclude from their public statements that the self-identified Catholic pundits on necon Fox News are for conserving little beyond revolutionary social order in politics (economic liberalism and the … Continue reading
Universalism and Indifferentism
In “Another Year,” Michael Voris takes to task the paladins progressive theology who are endorsing the twin errors of Universalism and Indifferentism. It’s worth the seven minutes it takes to view. To learn more about the issues he takes on, … Continue reading
Pope Francis on ‘Adolescent Progressivism’
From Catholic World News, we learn that the Holy Father denounced the “adolescent progressivism” that would throw away our traditions in the interest of being conformed to the values of the world. He did this in the context of meditating … Continue reading
What ‘Gay Marriage’ Did to Massachusetts
The agenda rolls on. This video reminded me that I have heard of old people from Eastern Bloc countries anxiously warning Americans that our country looks now like theirs did just prior to the Communist takeover. The consequences of homosexual … Continue reading
The Price of a ‘Progressivism’ Divorced from God’s Law
When society rejects the natural law and Catholics buy into the lie that the moral law we learn in our religious instruction has nothing to do with the governing of civil society, a dangerous trajectory has been established. Just where … Continue reading
Let’s Fight for al-Qa’ida!
I feel bad for the British, and that’s not being a bit ironic. Tony Blair did the bidding of George Bush and now David Cameron is doing that of the present self-appointed leader of the free world. It’s almost as … Continue reading
True Colors
We are led to believe that homosexuals are just decent people, like everyone else, except insofar as they “love differently.” It is therefore unreasonable to suspect them of anything heinous or unnatural. We are further led to believe that pro-aborts … Continue reading
Jimmy Carter’s Catholic Problem
The first president I remember is Jimmy Carter. Hearing his name conjures up all the pejoratives my father used to hurl at the television when the President appeared on the nightly news. You might say that Carter was not one … Continue reading
POTUS Slams Catholic Education, IN IRELAND!
Is there one word that conveys the concepts of ignorant, hubristic, arrogant, meddling, conceited, condescendingly insulting of people’s intelligence, and offensive to your hosts? If there is, B.H. Obama deserves it. He does not content himself with attacking the Catholic … Continue reading