The myth that the clergy abuse scandal has nothing to do with homosexuality is a politically correct mantra chanted by the same folks who’ve gotten us into this mess in the first place — backed by their ideological allies in … Continue reading
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April/May ‘Mancipia’ Posted
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Men Becoming Chemically Emasculated?
The article summary reads, “Levels of ‘viable’ sperm in human males are falling – and scientists believe they now understand the cause. Infertility can begin in the womb, says Steve Connor.” According to Out for the count: Why levels of … Continue reading
Jewish Businessman Furious Over Anti-Catholic Media Assault
Sam Miller, a Jewish business in Cleveland, gave the following talk before a City Club gathering in Cleveland in 2003. As the intro from CatholicOnline states, what Miller said then is even more evocative today. Such a spirited and factual … Continue reading
Patriots are Terrorists
You can rest comfortably, America. Those standard-bearers of decency at the Southern Poverty Law Center are once again magnanimously acting for the common weal. They have heroically identified forty (potential) domestic terrorists who are part of the “resurgent” patriot movement. … Continue reading
Homosexual and Anti-Military Activists Escape Prosecution for Trespassing at ND, Not Pro-Life 88
I am posting the news of this outrageous assault on justice which issues from this once hallowed Catholic university as a column rather than a news item in order to draw more attention to it. The South Bend University’s (I … Continue reading
Leaving the World for a Monastery
At The Eponymous Flower, Maximilian Hanlon offers a few salubrious reflections on his recent visit to Clear Creek Monastery, the traditional Benedictine Abbey in Oklahoma. (By the way, it’s not really true: the rumor, that is, that the license plate … Continue reading
Feastday, St. Benedict Joseph Labre, Patron of Beggars and Mentally Ill
What a powerful saint he is! How extraordinary his saintly life (1748-1783)! The miracles that he wrought in Rome immediately after his death led to the conversion of an American Congregationalist minister, Rev. Mr. John Thayer. Thayer went on to … Continue reading
April is Confederate History Month
Yes, we’re in Confederate History Month. And wherever you stand on the issue — whether you’re a liberal or a conservative — you will probably agree that it’s important for Americans (even Southerners) to learn their history and love their … Continue reading
Mayor Koch Defends Pope Benedict
In the pages of the Jerusalem Post comes an editorial on the journalistic pseudo-inquisition launched against the Holy Father. Former New York City mayor, Ed Koch, makes some points that deserve wide circulation: The primary explanation for the abuse that … Continue reading
April 11: Mercy Sunday, Plenary Indulgence
Low Sunday, Quasi Modo Sunday, Dominica in Albis Deponendis, and now Mercy Sunday. I think the first Sunday after Easter is the most named on the Roman Church’s calendar. And for the last several years, it has also been richly … Continue reading
R.I.P., Sister Maria Cordata, M.I.C.M.
STILL RIVER/HARVARD — Sister Maria Cordata, nee Rose Mary Eugenia Baravella, 85, of the Sisters of St. Benedict Center, Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, died Monday, March 30, after a brief illness. She is survived by her sister, … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan on the New York Times’ Professional Anti-Catholicism
The Holy Father has taken a beating in the pages of the New York Times and other venues. Sic transit gloria mundi. Pat Buchanan calls the spinmeisters on their mendacious and unvarnished anti-Catholicism. Better, he deftly contrasts reality with the … Continue reading
James Antle on the Southern Poverty Law Center
In “Tolerance Mafia,” James Antle III asks the question: “Who watches the hate watchers?” A surprising array of left-leaning journalists — fed up by the left’s own venal, manipulative, and money-minded enfant terrible — are included in the answer. It’s … Continue reading
Mother Henriette Delille, New Orleans Native, Declared Venerable
On Saturday, March 27, the Holy Father signed a decree advancing the cause of sainthood of Henriette Delille, declaring that this exemplary New Orleans Creole had lived a life of “heroic virtue.” As a native of that lately beleaguered city, … Continue reading