Reminiscing over the days when I would spend hours at a time leisurely listening to Brother Francis teach and asking him questions, I thought of the countless times we played the numbers game. Brother loved to make all studies as … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Mary Mary, Quite Military
From the pen of the intrepid Dom Guéranger, that monkish powerhouse of Catholic piety and erudition, comes this brief rundown of the two battles in whose memory the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary was gratefully instituted: Manicheism, revived … Continue reading
Brother Francis’ Obituary Online
The Cournoyer Funeral Home has posted a lengthy obituary for Brother Francis on their web site. It has some information not contained in our own online bio.
+ R.I.P. Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M. + (updated with funeral arrangements)
At about 9:00 AM this morning, Saturday, September 5, our beloved Superior, Brother Francis, M.I.C.M., went to his reward. Brother had received Holy Communion in the morning, and a few hours later quietly slipped away with little warning. His death … Continue reading
Unseen Allies Are on a Mission for Our Salvation
The daughter of a friend of mine asked me some years ago if, for her class project, I could answer some questions about the angels. She sent me twenty-six questions. And very intelligent questions they were. Some were not so … Continue reading
The First Conclave
A peculiar time it was for the Church in the latter part of the thirteenth century. No, there was no shortage of saints, or great theologians, philosophers, inventors, and good rulers; they were plentiful, but for almost three years there … Continue reading
Improved Author Pages
The author pages on our site (e.g., Gary Potter’s) are now improved. These pages list all of the articles and columns by each author on the site. Simply click on the hypertext name of the author and you will see … Continue reading
John Wayne “I’m a Cardiac-Catholic”
That’s what he used to say jokingly when asked what his religion was. We all love John Wayne for his great films, but waiting to the last hour to come into the Church was highly un-commendable. In fact, according to … Continue reading
Monsignor Domenico Bartolucci on Liturgy
Three days ago, I posted a notice concerning a significant book by Monsignor Brunero Gherardini. Today, I would like to give a hat tip to Carlos Antonio Palad at Rorate Caeli for making public another major monsignoral moment for tradition. … Continue reading
Washington’s Grand Stepson a Friend of Saint Patrick
Martha Dandridge was a widow when she married our first president in 1759. Of her four children from her previous marriage to Daniel Parke Custis there were only two surviving when she remarried: John, age five, and Martha, age three. … Continue reading
The Faith All But Dead in Quebec
O Canada! In “Neither practising nor believing, but Catholic even so,” we learn of the tragic state of the Church in Quebec. The article summary reads: “The ‘baptized pagans’ of Quebec, the most secularized society in the Western world, have … Continue reading
Vatican Council II: An Open Discussion, by Monsignor Brunero Gherardini
[Update: Monsignor Brunero Gherardini’s book can be purchased now. The English title is The Ecumenical Vatican Council II: A Much Needed Discussion. If readers “in the know” would alert us to the publication of his subsequent volumes, we would appreciate it … Continue reading
O Blessed Truculence!
There are those who consider us at Catholicism.org truculent for wishing to convert our nation to the true faith. Such talk nowadays is not exactly au courant. Neither does it resonate sympathetic vibrations with the ascendancy of the liberal Comintern … Continue reading
Obamacare, Mary, and Crystals
One of the few magazines I enjoy reading is Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Dr. Thomas Fleming, a very erudite gent who occasionally writes like a curmudgeon (but a funny one) is one I like to read especially. In … Continue reading
The Southern Poverty Law Center, A Danger To America
Americans for Legal Immigration have compared the Southern Poverty Law Center to Hitler and Stalin. While the SPLC’s modus operandi appears to be more … let’s call it “capitalist” … than their German and Russian counterparts, those who have dealt … Continue reading
