Earlier this week, I posted to our site a YouTube video of G. Edward Griffin explaining how the Communists manipulated racial divisions in America as early as the 1920’s. The same methods are being employed right now as a means … Continue reading
Category: «Ad Rem» A Fortnightly Email Message from the Prior
«Ad Rem» is our Prior’s fortnightly email message offering news and commentary regarding the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, the Crusade of St. Benedict Center, and issues affecting the universal Church. Each number offers brief, ad rem (“to the point”) commentary on timely or otherwise important matters. Click here to subscribe to our email list and receive the «Ad Rem» each time it’s published.
The Parable of the Pandemic
This modern parable in two parts furnishes us with a practical lesson about Catholic evangelism. Pretend, if you will, that a viral illness broke out that was highly exaggerated, gravely mismanaged, and cynically manipulated by a powerful few at the … Continue reading
Turning Forgiveness Outside Out
Whether purposely or not, we mortals have the nasty habit of introducing the mud of error into the pristine springs of truth and the stain of evil onto the luminous landscape of goodness. This tendency is often there to be … Continue reading
Resist Fear Mongering Propaganda
This Sunday’s Epistle reading concluded with the following verse and a half: “And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled. But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts” (I Pet. 3:14-15a). The words that I have emboldened … Continue reading
Fighting the New Iconoclasm by Loving Tradition
“They are just statues,” quoth the tweet of a young Portuguese man in response to my own tweets lamenting the toppling of monuments to Saint Junípero Serra in California and the proposed removal of a statue of Saint Louis in … Continue reading
Amid This Chaos, You Will Serve God or Satan
As we witness the appalling phenomenon of American cities burning amid horrible violence, we hear unbelievable cries from radicals for defunding police departments. Forces that are opposed to Christian social order — organizations funded by George Soros and other bankrollers … Continue reading
SARS-CoV-2 and the True Common Good
The response of various Catholic ecclesiastics to the coronavirus phenomenon has included a lot of talk about “the common good.” I read an article written by a priest that misrepresented the very idea of the common good, and confused it … Continue reading
Dirty Work for the Slaves
This Ad Rem is an advance copy of my June “Letter to Friends and Benefactors.” (Get on our list here.) It informs our supporters what we Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in New Hampshire are doing amid the … Continue reading
Becoming Philosophically Literate Once Again
“It is high time, I would argue, to jettison our Galilean, Cartesian, and Newtonian assumptions and become philosophically literate once again.” —Dr. Wolfgang Smith, in Physics and Vertical Causation, pg. 47. What follows is a modest effort on my part … Continue reading
Slaying the Dragons of Scientism
Taking our minds for a time off the grim immediacy of the present, we would do well to look ahead to a goal we have in mind, a new Christendom. Such a society would not be a carbon copy of … Continue reading
Concerning COVID-19: Mad as Hell, Peaceful as Heaven
There is something very revealing about the COVID-19 crisis. This Sino-American bioweapon, apparently not a particularly bad one as bioweapons go, has shown us the depth of the rot in the Church and the State, and not just here in … Continue reading
Crisis Response? Time to Fortify the Domestic Church and the Catholic Community!
Whether or not one thinks that the episcopal decision in now most of the country (and elsewhere) to suspend public Masses is a wise one or not, we are now virtually all stuck with the new status quo. I have … Continue reading
Joe Sobran, Apologist
Joseph Sobran (1946-2010) was an American public intellectual and conservative thinker who spent more than twenty years of his life on the staff of National Review before being unceremoniously dumped from that esteemed publication. It seems he wandered too far … Continue reading
A Fascinating Apologetic: Bellarmine on John 4 and the Mass
It was my pleasure to interview Mr. Ryan Grant, of Mediatrix Press, for my most recent Reconquest. Our topic was, “The Mass is a True Sacrifice,” for which Saint Robert Bellarmine’s On the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass provided … Continue reading
Doctrinal Warfare, the CIA, and the Colonizing of the Catholic Mind
Catholic journalist, Bree Dail, recently interviewed an expert in “Information Operations” (IO) on propaganda and the strategic use of “fake news.” Daniel P. Gabriel is now employed in the private sector, but was previously an Officer in the CIA, where … Continue reading
