Sometimes we have to beg. This is one of those times. The economic crisis we’re in is affecting everyone, but just because we beg doesn’t mean we have to be dire about it. Neither will we make outrageous promises or … Continue reading
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Catholicism.org has many feeds for you to use in RSS readers, on your personal blogs, or on other webs sites. We also have a Facebook Application that uses RSS. (If you would like to learn about RSS, please scroll down … Continue reading
NH Senate Narrowly Passes ‘Same Sex’ Marriage Bill, Bishop John McCormack’s Statement
New Hampshire House Bill 436 has narrowly passed (see article in the Nashua Telegraph). The following is the statement of Bishop John McCormack on this issue: I am deeply disappointed that HB 436 has passed the New Hampshire State Senate.
Father Augustus Tolton, First Black Priest in the U.S.
“They’re watching me,” he wrote to Saint Katharine Drexel, his confidant and benefactor. One of the Catholic websites I frequent offers a video about a Black American priest by the name of Augustus Tolton. I could see by the black … Continue reading
Is Evil a Problem?
On the Sunday after Easter readers of the Washington Post were shocked and saddened by a story on the paper’s front page. It concerned a family who lived in Middletown in the Maryland countryside about 50 miles outside D.C. The … Continue reading
The Temperament God Gave You
The Temperament God Gave You: The Classic Key to Knowing Yourself, Getting Along with Others, and Growing Closer to the Lord, by Art and Laraine Bennett. Published by Sophia Press. The four temperaments: “Catholic astrology” or solid science? In this … Continue reading
Russian Orthodox Ask Racism Conference to Address “Christophobia”
I was raised in a home where there was no hint of racism. It was totally foreign to me, until, in 1970, I went to a certain small college in a certain state in a certain town. I saw the … Continue reading
Blessed Nuno of Portugal to be Canonized Sunday
It’s not often that five blesseds are canonized in the same ceremony, but such shall it be this Sunday when our Holy Father Benedict raises these five men and women of extraordinary virtue to the altar. — Blessed Arcangelo Tadini, … Continue reading
Shocking Revelations from the Boston Globe
Doctrine changes. Truth changes. Morals change. The Church needs to catch up to modernity and progress. Pope Benedict XVI is mean, like Father Feeney. These and other startling revelations from the progressive camp are the subject of a penetratingly vacuous … Continue reading
Lex Orandi Lex Credendi
This ancient Latin axiom is quoted so often, I thought a little explanation of it on our web site would be helpful. A paraphrase of a longer patristic expression, the phrase means, “the law of praying is the law of … Continue reading
SBC and Father Feeney on Facebook
All you Facebook users out there can now help propagate the Crusade in three different ways. We now have: a Facebook page: “Saint Benedict Center”; a Facebook group: Friends of Father Feeney and Saint Benedict Center; and a Facebook Application … Continue reading
So, You’re a Slave…
When you identify yourself as a “Slave,” you can get some strange looks. But of all the adverse reactions to our name I have ever known, perhaps the most memorable came from a highly educated man who understood the background … Continue reading
Prayer For Choosing A State Of Life
O LORD, I beseech Thee to grant me Thy divine light, that I may know the designs of Thy providence concerning me, and that, filled with a sincere desire for my soul’s salvation, I may say, with the young man … Continue reading
Gerald Warner on Dawkins’ Gaffe: Benedict XVI is ‘stupid, ignorant or dim’
The Telegraph’s Gerald Warner gives Richard Dawkins, that dyspeptic dynamo of Darwinian dogmatism, a very well deserved smack. Dawkins is not interested in empirical, scientific evidence when he is kicking religion. If the Pope favoured condoms Dawkins would probably be … Continue reading
Leader of Mexican Cult Calls for “Holy War” Against the Church
When Hilaire Belloc wrote in 1931 that the new paganism, which was already infecting the world, would not be like the old polytheism, but openly satanic, he was not prophesying. He was prognosticating.
