«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.
Like its immediate predecessor, this Ad Rem is a sneak preview of our conference. In the second of his celebrated “Twelve Labors,” Hercules was challenged to slay a multi-headed beast called the “Lernaean Hydra” owing to its lair being the … Continue reading
This Ad Rem is a sneak-preview of one of my two talks at the upcoming Saint Benedict Center Conference. I look forward to seeing many of my readers there! In the battle against COVID-19 hysteria, many wise critics have called … Continue reading
In the midst of the global psyop that is currently weaponizing people’s fear, anger, hatred, and other disordered passions, there is much that has been lost: money, property, education, peace, sanity, stability, even, in many places, physical access to Holy … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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