Considering the age of the Church and that her visible head is bishop of the Eternal City, this news item is only slightly dated. The New York Times quoted the Holy Father saying some apostolically blunt words to an Italian … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Harmony With Universe Retreat / Andale! Tickets Won’t Last Long
Live in the Los Angeles area? Well, be there or be square. And move fast. Be where? The Holy Spirit Retreat Center in Encino, that’s where. The channeling reverie, or whatever it is, begins at 5 o’clock California time TODAY. … Continue reading
Calling All Eastern-Rite Catholics!
Mr. Gregory Lloyd, a Ukrainian Rite Catholic, is the director of the Pilgrimage for Restoration. The Pilgrimage has been a very “Latin” event; i.e., all of the Masses and most of the faithful on pilgrimage are of the traditional Roman … Continue reading
Ireland’s Zionist Justice Minister Behind Drive Against Seal of Confession in Abuse Cases
Alan Shatter is an enemy of the Catholic Church. He wrote a book in 1979 mocking the Church’s teaching on birth control as it was once loyally implemented in Irish law by the nation’s ban on contraceptives — that was … Continue reading
Lady Marines to Front?
Chivalry may not be dead, but it’s in critical condition. (The New York Times) The Marine Corps, the most male of the armed services, is taking its first steps toward integrating women into war-fighting units, starting with its infantry officer … Continue reading
Nyuck, Nyuck, and a Whiff of Brimstone
In the vast wasteland known as American popular culture, every once in a while — actually, quite frequently — something truly infernal comes to the screen (or the tube, or the airwaves), and makes particularly hellish mockery of the good, … Continue reading
Why the Disorientation and Exodus of Nuns in the 60s and 70s? Humanist Psychology?
Patheos‘ Kathy Schiffer provides an informative summary of the destructive role of just two psychologists and their team who, in 1966, were given a three-year grant (I don’t know from what organization) to experiment with religious orders through humanistic Freudian … Continue reading
‘Len’ Writes ‘Joe’
…to move our beloved Catholic Church out of the Middle Ages into Modernity… This phrase, about as up-to-date and relevant as Woodstock, is a description of the work of Vatican II by a progressivist named Professor Leonard Swidler, or “Len.” … Continue reading
Saint Bernadette of Lourdes
Yesterday, April 16, was the feast day of Saint Bernadette on the new calendar. This was the day that she died, her birthday into heaven. The old feast day for this most blessed saint was the eighteenth of February, for … Continue reading
NFP to the Rescue
The Washington Post has an article featuring “a movement of younger, religiously conservative Catholic women who are trying to rebrand what may be Catholicism’s most-ignored teaching: its ban on birth control methods such as the Pill.” Unless the WaPo has … Continue reading
‘Conciliar’ Theologian is ‘Too Understanding’ of SSPX Position
On his www.chiesa site, the often worth-reading Sandro Magister has published the work of an Australian-based theologian concerning the Rome-SSPX dialogue. The piece by theologian John R.T. Lamont, “A Theologian’s Questions,” was written for Magister’s site. I referred to Lamont as … Continue reading
Recommended Film: Katyń
As a treat for Easter, the brothers watched the film Katyń, which recounts the horrible massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia in the forest of Katyn, not far from the western Russian city of Smolensk. The film, directed … Continue reading
Prayers for the Conversion of Chuck Colson who is in Critical Condition
It is very sad that practicing Catholics who know and work with naturally virtuous non-Catholics, such as Mr. Colson, are afraid, due to human respect, to ask such people to become Catholic. I do not understand this. Father Feeney considered … Continue reading
Thou Hast Said It!
The divinity of Our Lord and Savior is manifestly evident in every page of the four Gospels and most especially so in that of Saint John: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the … Continue reading
Holy Week/Easter Schedule at IHM Chapel
April 1-8, 2012 [Get Directions] Palm Sunday: Low Mass: 7:30 am; Rosary: 9:00 am; High Mass: 9:30 am Monday through Wednesday: (schedule as usual) Mass: 7:30 am; Rosary (after school): 3:00 pm Maundy Thursday: Rosary: 6:30 pm; High Mass: 7:00 … Continue reading
