There are two Churches, yes, using the name Catholic, not two “branches” of the One True Church. One church is in union with Rome and, therefore, Roman Catholic. The other is not in union with Rome and is subservient to … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Defending the Sign of Our Salvation
“European court: 10 nations back Italy in crucifix case,” says CWN. You may remember that, in late 2009, the European Court of Human Rights declared that a crucifix in an Italian classroom is “contrary to parents’ right to educate their … Continue reading
Memorial Day: Remembering All Who Gave Their Lives for God and Country
On this day, I was overjoyed to see CatholicOnline highlight the sacrifice of Catholic Navy Seal, Michael Monsoor. He fell on a grenade to save others one half hour after going to confession. Here is the story of great man, … Continue reading
Peggy Noonan on the Real Cost of the BP Disaster
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, Peggy Noonan assesses the political cost of the Obama administration’s handling of the BP-Gulf catastrophe. She’s not just making Republican political hay, though, for the crisis is not only Mr. Obama’s, but that of … Continue reading
On Holy __
1. When you have __, everyone wants your company. When you lose __, men want to avoid you. 2. When you have __, you cannot be mean if you tried. When you lose __, you are mean even to yourself. … Continue reading
American Jew Seeks to Help Gaza Palestinians
“I didn’t know anything about Palestinians. I wasn’t even thinking about this issue until I read by chance about what happened in the Palestinian refugee camps in Sabra and Shatila. This was 2 years after they had been killed there. … Continue reading
May 25, 1810, Bi-Centennial Emancipation Day in Argentina, the Will of a Great General
Yesterday marked the two hundredth year since Argentina won its independence from a Spain which was under Napoleonic occupation. I am not justifying the revolution, which may or may not have been justified (consider that Napoleon was an avid Mason, … Continue reading
Jesuit CEO of Asian Catholic News Rejects Term Transubstantiation
Are we back again with the liberal theological and Christological heresies of the sixties and seventies? Insubordinate theologians tried and tried to dethrone the sacrosanct term “transubstantiation,” which expresses the change of bread and wine into the Body, Blood, Soul, … Continue reading
Saint Joseph Altars
(Photography and text by Kerri McCafferty. Pelican Publishing Company) This beautiful book is a feast for the eyes. The author, an accomplished photographer, presents her subject primarily in a delicious array of colorful photos of many different Saint Joseph Altars … Continue reading
If at First You Don’t Secede, Try Converting
Chuck Baldwin writes about what he considers the inevitable breakup of the United States. He’s promoting secession, and further making the case that there is a grassroots pro-secession movement across the country. As intriguing as that subject is for me, … Continue reading
Student Suspended for Wearing Rosary
The dim bulbs who indoctrinate the inmates at one particular government-run, taxpayer-funded educational institution have forbidden a student from wearing his Rosary out of fear that beads may be gang-related. Question: What kind of reaction would there be if the … Continue reading
Mexican/American Priest in El Paso Defends Faith and Morals in City Paper
I just read a well written column from the El Paso Times concerning Catholic teaching on abortion and homosexual acts. Papers hear in New England don’t have Guest Columns by Catholic priests, unless they are laicized priests like Boston Globe’s … Continue reading
‘God Bless and Keep the Tsar…’
Play-goers or movie-buffs might recall the end of this “prayer for the Tsar” offered impromptu by the Rabbi near the beginning of “Fiddler on the Roof”: “…far away from us!” The line reflects a popular anti-monarchist sentiment that scorns all … Continue reading
In Praise of Angels of a Different Battlefield
The sixties were a rough time to go through Catholic schools, especially after Vatican II. Nuns were modifying their habits, which meant shortening not only their veil, but even their skirts. The modified habit didn’t last long before religious garb … Continue reading
Indifferentism is a Condemned Heresy: Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos
“Indifferentism” is the belief that it does not matter what religion a man professes, he can be saved nonetheless. The Church has roundly condemned this notion as a heresy in very strong language, holding it to be a denial of … Continue reading
