(National Coalition of Clergy and Laity) The 17th annual Pilgrimage for Restoration is scheduled for Friday-Sunday, September 28-30. This year’s theme has been chosen. In honor of St. Kateri, soon to be raised to the altars shared by the Blessed … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Freedom From Religion Foundation: ‘It’s Time to Consider Quitting the Catholic Church’
The “Freedom From Religion Foundation” placed a full-page ad in the March 9 New York Times. Its title says, “IT’S TIME TO CONSIDER QUITTING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.” Obviously addressed to Catholics, its eight paragraphs and snappy cartoon amount to a response … Continue reading
Fr. Marcel Guarnizo’s Priestly Faculties Removed
From Abbey-Roads: “Sadly, after Mass this evening, I received word that Fr. Guarnizo’s assignment at St. John Neuman Parish has been withdrawn and he has been placed on administrative leave with his priestly faculties removed. The notification was signed by … Continue reading
Utah State Senate Passes Bill Allowing Schools to Stop Sex Ed
By a vote of 19 to 10. Most of these state senators are probably Mormon. It’s an absolute tragedy that Catholic state senators and congressmen have been mandating sex ed and paying teachers with tax payer dollars to corrupt school … Continue reading
Evangelical Zionists Work to Bring on Armageddon and the Rapture
Pope Saint Pius X told Theodore Hertzl, founder of Zionism, that the Catholic Church would not recognize the establishment a Jewish State in Palestine because the Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messias, the Christ. Contrariwise, before becoming Pope … Continue reading
Sandra Fluke and Barbara Johnson: Two Peas in a Pod
Recently, two activists for sexual depravity have become media darlings. In both cases the Catholic Church was involved. In both cases the activist was professedly opposed to Catholic teaching and worked to advance a contrary agenda. In both cases they … Continue reading
VP Joe Biden Visits Guadalupe Shrine in Mexico City, Sheds Tears
The tears were shed for the memory of his mother, who, he said, was very devoted to Our Lady of Guadalupe. Let us pray that this visit will be a huge grace for him and moves him to sheds tears … Continue reading
Priest Reprimanded by Bishop for Denying Communion to Publicly Active Lesbian, Updated Again
This woman (read the following facts for yourself) introduced her “lover” to the priest just prior to the funeral Mass he was to offer for her mother. Granted the priest should have said something then and there, but he didn’t. … Continue reading
Libya: ‘Mission Accomplished’ as Islamists Desecrate Graves
The SSPX site La Porte Latine has a video of Libyan Islamists — now free to do such things — knocking over headstones on Christian and Jewish graves, and mauling a stone cross erected in the cemetery. Below is a … Continue reading
Catholic Online’s 10 Things to Know About St. Patrick
Actually they list eleven things. I respectfully take issue, however, with the way the website news’ editor describes the Trinity in item number 7, where he notes that Saint Patrick used the three-leaf shamrock to demonstrate the doctrine of the … Continue reading
Sandra Fluke: Insurance Must Cover Transgender Mutilation
“Sandra Fluke is not what she is being sold as. Instead she is a liberal activist pushing some rather radical ideas. Keep that in mind as the left holds her up in the spotlight.” So says Stephen Gutowski, who made … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan: Anti-War, and Old Right
With a mind for modern history rarely equaled by rival wags, the fired conservative bad-boy of MSNBC still keeps articulating the case for a sane foreign policy. Talking such sense is what got him canned in the first place, God … Continue reading
NASA Allegedly Has Mission Specialist Demoted for Defending Intelligent Design
Intelligent Design!!! You can’t say that, Sir. You’re a scientist. We are radical secularists here. You’re not supposed to talk about First Causes in our workplace. Stick to your field of secondary causation and say no more, even if the … Continue reading
Promising New Book by Dr. John Rao
Black Legends and the Light of the World: The War of Words with the Incarnate Word by John C. Rao, D. Phil., Oxford University, Associate Professor of History, St. John’s University. When it is published, the book will be available … Continue reading
Fulton Sheen’s ‘A Plea for Intolerance’
This article recently came to Catholicism.org’s attention. These excerpts came from the Alliance for Life Ministries site. Ven. Emmanuel d’Alzon had similar ideas. America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. … Continue reading