Review of The Bones of Saint Peter by John Evangelist Walsh. Sophia Institute Press, 2011. This fascinating and fairly short volume (178 pages) is a reprint of the original published in 1982. It tells the story of the search for … Continue reading
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Auriesville Pilgrimage for Restoration Mixes Tradition, Vitality
The 2012 annual Pilgrimage for Restoration is scheduled for Friday-Sunday, September 28-30. This will mark the seventeenth time that a merry band of Catholic pilgrims cuts a path from Lake George to Auriesville, New York, doing penance all the way. This … Continue reading
The Church and Globalism, Part I
For many orthodox Catholics, the word “globalization” immediately raises hackles — it evokes fears of loss of national sovereignty, of undesirable immigration, of Masonic conspiracy: in a word, the spectre of a Satanic “One-World Government.” Images of the Bilderbergers, the … Continue reading
The Dangers of Scientism (December, 1946)
If a man were to say to me, “I refuse to use my eyesight except through a microscope,” I might think that the man is queer or crazy, and I would certainly try to avoid his company. Imagine taking a … Continue reading
The Devastation of Catholic Europe: Some Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Revolt
Introduction “Let us clearly understand the meaning of these words — Catholic, Protestant, and Reformation. Catholic means universal, and the religion which takes this epithet was called universal because all Christian people of every nation acknowledged it to be the … Continue reading
Thoughts Triggered by the Firing of Pat Buchanan
Pat Buchanan was recently fired from MSNBC after a ten-year association. Pat and I worship at the same extraordinary-rite Sunday Mass in the nation’s capital, but I haven’t had a chance to speak to him since his firing. I have … Continue reading
Mathematics and Christian Education
Nothing could be more distinctive of the age in which we live than the overpowering prominence of mathematics. All through the Catholic centuries, arithmetic and geometry constituted all the mathematics that an educated Christian was asked to learn. Even these … Continue reading
The Law of Causality and Sola Scriptura
I do not expect that the following argument is going to win a Protestant to the Catholic Faith. I have learned from St. Thomas Aquinas that reason has its limits in persuasion, and when reason reaches the wall, Grace is … Continue reading
A Frightening Future If We Do Not Change
Review of Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025? by Patrick J. Buchanan, Thomas Dunne Books, 2011 This 428 page book, containing copious notes in the end note section (1104 of them to be exact), is so jam-packed … Continue reading
Suggested Lenten Penances
The best penances are those that God sends us. These penances are immediately consequent upon His “will signified,” that is, the natural moral law and any positive law to which we are bound in conscience, e.g., the Church’s laws on … Continue reading
Obama’s ‘Unacceptable’ Compromise, and Lies
CatholicCulture.org and cnsnews.com both have coverage of the Bishops’ response to President Obama’s “compromise” on the HHS contraceptive mandate. Worth noting in the Bishops’ statement is their assertion that “coverage of sterilization and contraception, including some abortifacients” is …both unsupported … Continue reading
60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll Reveals Apostasy of US Catholics
This is Michael Voris at his best. Yes, I said “apostasy” in the headline. If 65% of US Catholics agree that the world is a better place because of “religious diversity,” when they could have said that Christianity should be … Continue reading
Catholic Action League: Dorchester Church Vandalism a ‘Hate Crime’
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today called upon Bay State Attorney General Martha Coakley to undertake a hate crime investigation following the vandalism of a religious statue in the Dorchester district of Boston. A statue of the Sacred Heart … Continue reading
Thomas More College Chapel Undergoes Transformation
Thomas More College – Students of Thomas More College returned from their Christmas recess to an exciting surprise—a beautifully transformed chapel. While the students were home with their families, Thomas More College’s staff and faculty joined together to install a … Continue reading
Hungary Protests
Notice the sign around the 37 second mark, conveniently written in English. Hungary is far older than the institutions trying to bring her down, and dates back to Saint Stephen, crowned “Apostolic King” of the Magyars by Pope Sylvester II. … Continue reading
