Legitimizing perversity is a fetish for some legislators. New Hampshire House Bill 415, dubbed by conservatives, “the Bathroom Bill,” is an effort to protect the rights of people who voluntarily mutilate themselves in the futile pretense that they have changed … Continue reading
The colony of Maryland, founded in 1632 as a refuge for Catholics, is not named after Mary Stuart or Mary Tudor, no, not even Our Lady, but it is named after the wife of Charles I, the king who granted … Continue reading
This bill could require pastors to perform “gay marriages.” Read the bill text for yourself and ask your State Representative(s) to vote against it. To find your representatives’ names, go here, and then put their names/addresses into http://www.411.com/ to get … Continue reading
Did you know that one of the U.S. Navy destroyers was named in honor of a Catholic priest? Yes, the USS Schmitt, which served our country from 1943-1967, was named for Navy chaplain, Lieutenant Aloysius Schmitt. In 1942 the chaplain … Continue reading
The February-March Catholic America Tour finishes on Tuesday, March 11, in Riverdale, New Jersey. We are happy to be hosted by the mayor of Riverdale, a long-time friend, Mr. William Budesheim. For further information about the talk — which we … Continue reading
In today’s Human Life International e-mail newsletter, Father Thomas Euteneuer writes a scathing indictment of Senator Brownback for approving Governor Sebelius’s nomination as secretary of Health and Human Services. “I am not a politician,” he writes, “I am a priest.
Another “Catholic” theology professor from Boston College also signed the letter, the feminist writer Lisa Sowle Cahill, past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. This woman, in an October 16, 2008, article for the National Catholic Reporter, excoriated … Continue reading
While we have been on the road with the Catholic America Tour, a new opportunity has come our way. The talk in Washington D.C. is anounced on our CAT web site, with all the pertinent details. If you are in … Continue reading
A question often arises among inquiring Catholics whether or not canonizations and beatifications fall under the mantle of papal infallibility. Theologian Camillo Beccari (I would assume that he is a priest although there’s no indication in the signature) contributed an … Continue reading
Seven Meditations on Islam from The Challenge of Faith: The issue of salvation is faith in God — Incarnate. The Church must reach the Moslems with this message, even if it has to pay the price it paid to convert … Continue reading
[W]hen Brother Charles of Jesus saw Moussa, the amenokal of Hoggar, trying to islamise the Tuateg people with a Koranic school and the construction of a mosque to boot… it literally made him ill (English CRC n0 296, May 1997, … Continue reading
On 21 September 1912, Father de Foucauld wrote to Madam de Bondy: «Pray also for all the Moslems of our north-west African empire now so vast. The present hour is extremely grave for their souls as it is for France.
Here are some pictures we took at the Shrine of Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos and the German parish church, Saint Mary’s Assumption. Both the shrine and church are simply stunning. We went slightly out of our way on the CAT … Continue reading
I have erred. A couple of weeks ago, I bombed it. Yes, I — the Philosopher — made a colossal mistake. It seems I imprudently trusted a friend who sent me a quote alleged to be from the pen of … Continue reading
One could easily grow a bit weary of correcting the blunders about Father Feeney so commonly made by writers in Catholic publications. But I think Father would exhort us to patience and a charitable correction, rather than a boisterous and … Continue reading
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