To Lady Concupiscentia O Lady, you are beautiful, yet cruel, As haughty dames in courtly love songs are. You draw me by your charms and I, a fool, Race quick to you, though virtue would me bar. Icarus-like I flew … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Amazing Lucidity on the Secession Issue
We all know that only hateful WASPS are for secession, because that’s what the evil, bigoted Southrons did beginning with South Carolina in 1860, and they were all hateful WASPS. Right? This is the gist of the received history of … Continue reading
Petition the Holy Father to Offer Traditional Mass
It would be a boon to the cause of Tradition if the Holy Father would himself publically offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in the traditional rite. If you share that conviction, then please consider signing the petition below. … Continue reading
‘THAT is What I Want to Do’: The Doctor Is In
Living in New Hampshire, I rarely pick up a Massachusetts newspaper. This past Sunday, however, I did: The Worcester Telegram. In Section A, page 10, there was an article by Associated Press columnist, Martha Irvine, about a doctor in Rushville, … Continue reading
The Heart Speaketh: Spokeswoman for NOW Spoke Too Much
Our Lord said: “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.” Sometimes pro-abortion activists say the truth about the slaughter of the pre-born babies and reveal just how dark are their thoughts. Feminist author Camille Paglia comes to … Continue reading
The Rhyme of Icarus
Icarus, Dicarus, Doc. D’Kid’s head, it was a block! He flew too high, and fell to die. Icarus, Dicarus, Doc.
Is Humanae Vitae Infallible Teaching? Yes!
In The Catholic Medical Quarterly, Father Thomas Crean, O.P. presents easily understood arguments to affirm that Pope Paul VI’s condemnation of birth control falls under supreme magisterial doctrine. Sadly, we all know married Catholics who attend Mass on Sunday and … Continue reading
USCCB Gen. Assembly Honors Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, the nineteenth-century Bavarian Redemptorist whose relics are enshrined in New Orleans, has been honored by the General Assembly of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. (CWN) By large margins, members of the United States Conference of … Continue reading
Heretic de Chardin Dusted Off and Celebrated at Jesuit College in Rome
I remember Father Leonard Feeney’s brother, Jesuit Father Thomas Feeney, telling a group of us how, when de Chardin was visiting the Jesuit house in Boston, an argument took place at dinner between an older priest and the cosmic evolutionist … Continue reading
‘Snobs, Bigots, and Half-Educated Secularists Like Friedman’
[Joe Doyle copied us on an email he sent to a friend in response to Tom Friedman’s column, Why I Am Pro-Life in the New York Times. It was not written for publication, but Joe graciously agreed to allow to … Continue reading
I Was There
[Dedicated to Rev. Michael A. Jarecki] I was there when it was time to baptize a new member, Also before Mass to help you vest when you couldn’t remember. I was there bright and early for you to absolve me … Continue reading
November
My thoughts are now all deathly dark In this November tide. The Holy Souls, so sad and stark, My mercy do betide. They languish all in helplessness No merit them to gain. It would be horrid heartlessness To pity not … Continue reading
Observations on the Election
What follows are some observations on the outcome of the November 6 presidential election and what it means for the future of Americans, especially remaining non-Hispanic Catholics who are serious about the religion. The first thing to observe about the … Continue reading
A Window Into Purgatory
There was no saint who received more revelations or had more visions of the souls in purgatory than Saint Catherine of Genoa (1447-1510). Catherine was extremely devout in her youth, but a terrible marriage at sixteen, arranged by her father, … Continue reading
EU Flag Has Marian Origin
I just read an interesting article on Inside the Vatican website about the symbolism of the European flag. I had thought that it was just a coincidence that the flag is blue with a circle of twelve white stars. It … Continue reading
