You can learn a lot from this man. From the TFP: This two-minute unplanned recording was captured during a campaign for traditional marriage in White Plains, New York, by TFP Student Action volunteers. When the man featured in this interview … Continue reading
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today condemned Jesuit administered Boston College for selecting Republic of Ireland Taoiseach Enda Kenny as its 2013 Commencement Speaker. The university will also confer an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on Kenny during commencement … Continue reading
Some of the things that Michael Voris points out in this episode of the Vortex have been previously noted on Catholicism.org (here, for instance). It’s worth seeing them all in one place. In brief, Pope Francis is not the pope … Continue reading
Here at Saint Benedict Center there is a pious devotion to the five prayers the angel and Our Lady gave to the Fatima children. Our third order members know them by heart. If you do not know these prayers, you … Continue reading
This — in the videos, below — is what you’re up against if you wish to maintain just a modicum of Christian standards in a Catholic institution. The Diocese of Columbus, which let a teacher go for living in an … Continue reading
A little bit of good news: Uptown New Orleans Xavier Prep, primarily for African-American girls, will now be known as Saint Katharine Drexel Preparatory School. The school was founded in 1915 by Mother Drexel and her Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament … Continue reading
The country’s worst serial killer, Charles Cullen, murdered forty people, perhaps more. He did it as a nurse by injecting the victim with a lethal drug. He was from my home town; in fact his home was on my paper … Continue reading
Reading stories like this, one waits for Rod Serling or M. Night Shyamalan to make a cameo. Only they don’t, because it’s real… (The Blaze) Following a Monday court ruling, Anna and Alex Nikolayev are one step closer to regaining full … Continue reading
Meet Queen Máxima of the Netherlands. With the abdication of Queen Beatrix, her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, becomes King of the Netherlands, and his Argentine-born Princess, Máxima, becomes Queen. According to Wikipedia, Máxima “remained a Roman Catholic after her marriage” to … Continue reading
From the Boston Globe: [Update: Here is the obituary, with more information, from the Stanton Funeral Service site.] Joseph R. Nolan, a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court for 14 years, died Monday, according to the Stanton Funeral Service … Continue reading
Father Michael P. Orsi has written an article for Catholic Exchange titled, “Reading the Tea Leaves: Will Pope Francis End Priestly Celibacy?” After correctly saying that there cannot be female priests, and after a bit of speculation on the possibility … Continue reading
From Pope Francis’ sermon today, the feast of Saint George (Jorge Bergoglio’s own patron): “But the Christian identity is not an identity card: Christian identity is belonging to the Church, because all of these belonged to the Church, the Mother … Continue reading
Call me a troglodyte, but it was my impression from Catholic moral teaching that nobody has a “right” to do what is contrary to the law of God, whether we consider that portion of the law that is supernaturally revealed, … Continue reading
Forget Justin Bieber. The Canadian pop star has nothing on the Bohemian-Austrian baroque composer and violinist, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (12 August 1644 [baptized] – 3 May 1704). Believed to have been Jesuit educated in his earlier years at … Continue reading
The nation is still reeling from the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing, and one of the two suspects is still at large as I write. Three people were killed, thirteen had limbs amputated, and 170 others are still hospitalized. … Continue reading
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