Today is the glorious feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes. It is also the occasion for the Mother of God revealing in 1858 to Bernadette Soubirous, a very poor fourteen-year-old peasant from Lourdes, France, her unique grace as “The … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Dr. Anthony Esolen on How Common Core Devalues Great Literature
(Crisis Magazine) The Common Corers get things exactly backwards. You do not read The Wind in the Willows so that you can gain some utilitarian skill for handling “text.” If anything, we want our children to gain a little bit … Continue reading
US ‘Ukraine-gate’ Threatens to Blow Up Into Major Conflagration
From Daniel McAdams on LewRockwell.com: US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt were caught in a phone conversation leaked yesterday actively plotting over which of the Ukrainian opposition figures should take which position in … Continue reading
Hypocrisy: UN Wages War Against Moral Teachings of Catholic Church
Pro-abortion, anti-family United Nations, unleashed a scathing attack on the Vatican (viz, Catholic Church) over the pederasty (almost always epheberasty — sick enough) scandals all the while advancing its crusade to foster the killing of pre-born babies in the name of “reproductive … Continue reading
Saint Agatha’s Breasts
Father Leonard Feeney once remarked that certain Puritan sectaries refuse to pray the Hail Mary because the Catholic prayer has a bad word in it: womb. On the other hand, many of the Church’s most vociferous critics consider her to … Continue reading
Is Smoking Marijuana a Sin?
A headline from two weeks ago in our home state reads New Hampshire House passes recreational marijuana bill. This is part of a widespread push to legalize the drug for more than medical use. Aside from the question of whether … Continue reading
Grow Up, Catholics!
The March for Life is morphing into a Catholic field trip, according to Michael Voris. But the Catholic youth there need to put away their toys, grow up, and learn what it is to be Catholic. The young people who … Continue reading
‘This Mad Sect Deserves to be Punished’
One of the more despicable sycophants who persecuted the Church of God in post-Apostolic times was the Roman Governor, Pliny the Younger. His Letter to Emperor Trajan is a classic example of a flattering boot-licker with a gift for oratory … Continue reading
I’m Just Sayin’
Many progressivists who were baptized Catholic but subsequently lapsed will refer to themselves as “Cultural Catholics.” But the individuals I have heard describe themselves thus do not embrace anything like a Catholic culture at all. Rather, they cling to the … Continue reading
‘Cuomo, Don’t Blame the Media, Blame Yourself’
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is backtracking after facing national criticism and calls to resignover his comments that pro-life people “have no place”in the state. Cuomo now says it’s “fine” if pro-life people live in New York and he blamed his … Continue reading
The Pro-Life Movement Is Ill
This is so NOT inasmuch as it is pro-life, but inasmuch as it is weak on birth control. Michael Voris gives us a little glimpse of how moribund the movement is. Why? Because Catholics have not done their job to … Continue reading
The 11th Hour / Have Mercy on the Dying, Get Them a Priest
Father Dwight Longennecker, Patheos: One of the sweet things about being a priest is being able to minister at a person’s deathbed. The veil between this world and the next is very thin at that point, and you can see … Continue reading
MIT Prof Challenges ‘Climate-Change’ Orthodoxy
(CBS) MIT Professor Richard Lindzen is a leading international expert on climate change. … “Global warming, climate change, all these things are just a dream come true for politicians. The opportunities for taxation, for policies, for control, for crony capitalism … Continue reading
Gov Christie ‘Now’ Wants to Keep Kids in School Longer
Most of us patriotic Catholics know that the state already has our children under its thumb without parents having a say in the brave-new-world indoctrination and perverted sex-ed programs. And, discombobulated Chris Christie wants more state time with our children. … Continue reading
Fox’s Catholic Conservatives: Neither Catholic nor Conservative
Without any effort at judging the internal forum of others, we can conclude from their public statements that the self-identified Catholic pundits on necon Fox News are for conserving little beyond revolutionary social order in politics (economic liberalism and the … Continue reading
