Remember when “conspiracy wackos” were wringing their hands about black helicopters? Now you don’t have to be a devotee of conspiracy theories to see the imminent dawn of something worse — not if two recent news stories are accurate: Eric … Continue reading
“The Natural and Supernatural Edifice of Man” is a handout I prepared to go with the lectures on mental prayer. (There is also a single stand-alone lecture available on this important subject, “The Practice of Mental Prayer,” available in CD … Continue reading
According to the AP’s Nicole Winfield, the Benedict XVI “has completely altered the concept of the papacy” by his abdication. The full quote: Another topic facing the cardinals is the reason they’re here in the first place: Benedict’s resignation and … Continue reading
I have not and will not watch the blasphemous foolishness that the malignant unbelievers at NBC produced in mockery our Holy Savior. Unless all the descriptions of it are sheer fabrications, it was pure evil. Even the LA Times said … Continue reading
Michael Voris takes Fox News’ clerical commentator, Fr. Morris, to task for his indifferentist remarks on air. This is a good profession of the dogma, no salvation outside the Church. “If the comment made by Fr. Morris on Fox News … Continue reading
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Before his conversion, the prolific writer, Father Benedict Ashley, was a student at the University of Chicago studying under Mortimer Adler, a Jewish Thomistic philosopher, who himself finally came into the Church at the eleventh hour, in 1999, at the … Continue reading
At Mass this morning, the chaplain for Saint Benedict Center gave an inspiring sketch of the major events in the life of the Passionist Saint Gabriel of the Sorrowful Virgin (1838-1862), whose feast day is today, February 27. What caught … Continue reading
The Oath of Obedience has been reinstated and the ipso facto excommunication, latae sententiae, has been restored as penalty for any elector “or technician” (there are two in the conclave) who violates the oath of secrecy during and forever after the … Continue reading
Catholics should all pray for the Holy Father daily. During the period of sede vacante following Pope Benedict’s abdication from the Chair of Peter, we at Saint Benedict Center will be offering the following prayers in lieu of the prayers … Continue reading
A couple of weeks ago, a wonderful coincidence struck me as I reviewed two articles for our site hours apart on the same day: Robert Hickson’s Complacent Sentries and the Sloth of Roaming Unrest and Gary Potter’s Glittering Images. The … Continue reading
Did you know that in 1850, in Maine, the first president-to-be of Boston College was beaten, tarred, and feathered by Know-Nothing thugs? He was Jesuit Father Johannes Bapst. Born in Switzerland in 1815, and ordained a priest in 1846, Father … Continue reading
Of course, the same government that funds large-scale infanticide, murders US citizens in extra-judicial assassinations, has virtually rescinded habeas corpus and posse comitatus, and tells Catholic business owners that they must fund onanism and abortifacient drugs would NEVER use dangerous … Continue reading
Roberto de Mattei, author of The Second Vatican Council: An Unwritten History, offers his thoughts on the Pope’s resignation. His article was published in Italian on the conciliovaticanosecondo.it site, and was translated by Michael J. Miller for SSPX.org, where it … Continue reading
Continuing our coverage of miserable journalism and the Catholic Church, we have a fine selection this evening from CBS Los Angeles, reporting about some cranky folks unhappy with Cardinal Mahoney’s voting rights in the next conclave: Mahony will be among … Continue reading
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