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
Category: «Ad Rem» A Fortnightly Email Message from the Prior
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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
The Sameness and Difference of Saint Thérèse
During the last fortnight, when I should have been thinking about what to put in this Ad Rem, I became bogged down in some academic and administrative matters that zapped my writing time. (Exam week and grading papers among these! … Continue reading
Evolutionism and Indifferentism as Affronts to God’s Glory
In the post-“Enlightenment” intellectual haze in which we find ourselves, there are two areas of inquiry — one scientific, the other strictly theological — where we especially find man being put in the place of God. One of those subjects … Continue reading
You Cannot Rightly Love without Logos
We were made for love, and made by Love, for “God is charity” (1 Jn. 4:8), and “he made us, and not we ourselves” (Ps. 99:3). To love is in our nature as beings possessed of bodies with their passions … Continue reading
Racist Ideology and the Blood that Really Matters
Begging the reader’s pardon for being so personal, I begin with an odd confession, one that I hope will be fully justified sociologically and theologically in the lines that follow: I don’t identify as a white man. No, I don’t … Continue reading
The Trinity in the Old Testament
When the first Sunday of Advent comes and the new liturgical year begins, the Church once again relives the Mysteries of Christ for a whole year. She also summarizes all of history, from Creation to the end of time. The … Continue reading
Evangelize or Die
The note of “catholicity” is that which assures to the true Church a broad diffusion throughout the whole world. That the Catholic Church is historically the only Christian body to possesses this mark is proof of the veracity of her … Continue reading
The Antichurch of the Pseudomissionaries, and How it Came to Be
It’s 2051, and you’re on a top-secret mission to New York City which has been overrun by zombies since The Great Zombification of 2028, caused, as we now know, by a disastrous biological experiment in population control funded by Jeff … Continue reading
Scandals in the Vatican!
The following is adapted from my introductory comments at our recent Saint Benedict Center conference. One of the institutions most associated with the Renaissance Papacy was the so-called “Cardinal Nephew,” a man related to the reigning Supreme Pontiff who was … Continue reading
The Church Is Missionary by Her Very Nature
In faithful Catholic circles, there is a collective sense of angst and dread on the eve of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region (October 6-27). Not basing themselves upon rumor or speculation, those concerned point to public statements … Continue reading
Holiness Becometh Thy House, O Lord
During a performance by a local amateur opera company in a small Italian town, an amusing thing happened. These were amateurs in the true sense, they performed out of love for the art, and not for pay. Now, love and … Continue reading
But Only One Church is ‘One’
There are many Christian confessions that recite, as part of their official worship, the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, which professes faith in “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.” But only one of those that confess this creed is, in reality, the Church … Continue reading
