February 12 was the 80th anniversary of the first radio broadcast of a pope from Vatican Radio. Pope Pius XI and the great inventor Guglielmo Marconi teamed up to create the new tool of evangelization that had the potential of … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Traditional Mass Again Under Siege?
The Rorate Caeli web site claims to have it on very good authority that there is a movement underway to undermine the motu proprio, Summorum Pontificum by sabotaging the long-awaited “Instruction” on the proper interpretation of that document. Here is … Continue reading
San Francisco’s Anti-Catholic ‘Resolution’ Brought to Supreme Court
This is WorldNetDaily’s coverage of a suit the Thomas More Law Center is putting before the Supreme Court. The case could be highly significant at a time when the immoral homosexual agenda is making rapid progress. By Bob Unruh © 2011 WorldNetDaily … Continue reading
John Cuthbert Ford, S.J. Catholic Moral Theologian 1903-1989
I remember while attending Brother Francis’ philosophy courses in the 1980s how excited he got over an article written by Father John C. Ford on the philosophy of Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The article was quite long, forty or … Continue reading
A Powerful and Timely Prayer to the Prince of the Apostles
My friend Robert Hickson just sent me a prayer to Saint Peter composed by the Catholic writer Caryll Houselander. After reading the prayer and scanning some biographical information about the author on the internet, I am intrigued. From the little … Continue reading
Rep. Trent Franks on Abortion
Writing yesterday about the Republicans that made it into office thanks to the “get-the-bums-out” energy of the Tea Party and others, I said this: “Now we shall see of what stuff the new Republican pols are made. Are they ‘fiscal’ … Continue reading
This is Why Philosophy Is a Higher Study Than Physics Or Astronomy
I posted a column on September 2, 2010, to point out the illogical absurdities in The Grand Design, a new book co-authored by well-known atheist Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow. One example is the statement: “Because there is a law … Continue reading
Planned Parenthood and Other Government Funded Eugenics Programs
Thank God legislators at the federal and state (New Hampshire) level are seriously trying to defund the murderous criminal racket that goes by the name of Planned Parenthood. The PP gang was recently exposed again for their illegal activity by … Continue reading
You Were Cunning, Father Abraham
Ilana Mercer paints a starkly unflattering portrait of Honest Abe in Lincoln lied, people died. Regular readers of this site may be familiar with Gary Potter’s Catholicism and the Old South, which takes a similarly negative attitude toward the much … Continue reading
The King of Big Mountain
At the Whitefish Mountain Resort in Whitefish, Montana, there’s something unusual near the top of Big Mountain’s Chair 2. It’s a statue of Our Lord Jesus Christ, not something one would normally associate with a ski resort. The story of … Continue reading
Sojourners in the Land of Egypt
The headline reads “Egyptian Christians Worry about Radical Islamic Takeover.” The worry is a legitimate one. Instability in the Arab world, caused by revolutions against western-backed strong men, could well empower fanatical Islamists. The downfall of our US-backed Persian strong … Continue reading
Another Anti-SPLC Article
This one from The New American. Excerpt: Smells of a Smear But nowadays the SPLC has become infamous for its commando-aggressive, slick campaigns against mainstream Americans who support constitutional government, the Second Amendment, sound money, traditional marriage, and legal immigration. … Continue reading
Chaplains Predicted to Resist ‘Gay’-Ban Repeal
WorldNetDaily reports on the opposition to the repeal of DADT in the military chaplaincy. It focuses on the Evangelicals, with a brief mention of the Southern Baptists. We hope and pray that there is at least as much resistance in … Continue reading
‘I Was in Prison, and You Came to Me’
I just made the acquaintance of a man named Chris Quinn, who volunteers at the Roederer Correctional Facility in LaGrange, Kentucky. He and other Catholic laymen have an apostolate among the prisoners there. Mr. Quinn wrote to tell me how … Continue reading
Breakdown in Communication
I happened to be reading A Meditation on Modernism by Fr. Thomas Crean O.P., and realized that I’ve seen this sort of thing before — and it can be dangerous. First, read this description of how Modernists use the same … Continue reading
