If this trailer is any indication, Cristiada is at least an attempt to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. The URL for the film’s web site is http://www.cristiadafilm.com/. This is a teachable moment, folks. Tell all your friends … Continue reading
[The Conversion Stories of Knute Rockne and Ralph Metcalfe. “Crossing The Goal Line” by Knute Rockne, and “A Race Well Run” by Ralph H. Metcalfe, taken from Through Hundred Gates Imprimatur: Archbishop John McNicholas 1938.] I used to be impressed … Continue reading
God give me strength In making a rhyme To limit the length, To stop it in time.
During the long years (1942-1978) in which I was privileged to associate with Father Feeney on a daily basis, I kept a record of statements he would make from time to time, in his sermons or lectures, or in ordinary … Continue reading
Now the King-less Jews, I guess, Are check-mated, And their little game of chess Terminated.
(A Little-Known Story: The Jesuit Missions in South America and How Their Success Led to the Dissolution of the Order of Saint Ignatius) [Review of Black Robes in Paraguay: The Success of the Guarani Missions Hastened the Abolition of the … Continue reading
For better or worse, France has had a dominating intellectual and cultural influence throughout the West for a very long time. For most of the past couple of centuries, the influence has been for the worse. Many of the Enlightenment … Continue reading
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized the so-called St. Patrick’s Peace Parade for including a homosexual group in its march. The alternative parade followed one mile behind South Boston’s traditional Saint Patrick’s Day Parade.
[Review of Brother André: Friend of the Suffering, Apostle of Saint Joseph, by Father Jean-Guy Dubuc, C.S.C. Ave Maria Press, Notre Dame, Indiana] How we all rejoiced last October when Blessed Brother André was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI. As … Continue reading
It was generally ignored, but this past February 18 was an important anniversary in American history. It was on that date 150 years ago that Jefferson Davis, former U.S. Senator and former U.S. Secretary of War, was inaugurated as the … Continue reading
The inn that would not bed and board The Blessed Mother of Our Lord,
[Taken from Catholic Gems & Pearls by Rev. J. Phelam, 1897] Speaking of the truth, “out of the church there is no salvation,” I remember a very amusing story related by Father De Smet, the famous American missionary. “Amongst the … Continue reading
I know that God is infinite, But like Him not that way a bit; I love Him, yes, but like Him less;
In “Defending Our Queen’s Prerogatives” (The Remnant, 12/31/2010), Joseph Romanoski wrote: “Our Lady’s directives at Fatima were directed to Catholics (italics original) only, and not to the rest of Her children and subjects.” While plausible arguments can be offered showing … Continue reading
Born in a mining camp in the high Sierras of California, Catherine Malone was the daughter of poor Irish immigrants who came to America in the early 1860’s. The child was born on Christmas Eve, 1863, and had no memory … Continue reading
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