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Category: Columns
Share and Share Alike
If you go down to the very bottom of our pages, you will notice this text: “Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution – Share Alike License.” This means that the text … Continue reading
Consideration
“Consideration is the heart of charity.” This can be applied to how we treat our fellow man and also how we treat the Mysteries that God has revealed to us. Another name for consideration in this case is meditation.
Biblical Inerrancy Revisited (but not Revised)
With the Synod on Holy Scripture currently meeting in Rome, the Church’s teaching on Biblical inerrancy has become a timely topic of discussion. A little further down is a clip from John Allen’s interview with Cardinal Francis George on the … Continue reading
We’re Headed Straight for the Future
Laudetur Iesus Christus! In the midst of an election cycle become tedious, I’ve named this column with a comically clunky turn of phrase from a past presidential election. While it did its original user little good, the statement somehow expresses … Continue reading
The Catholic America Tour: De Pere and Necedah Wisconsin
Brother André Marie will soon be on the road with the “Catholic America Tour” (CAT). Traveling across our land, Brother will lecture on the subject, “Toward a Catholic America: History, Goals, and Methods.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: A Tribute
When the enemies of Christian social order attack one of its champions, they are never satisfied simply to say he is wrong. They also invariably seek to discredit the man as a man by casting doubt on his integrity or … Continue reading
Editorial: Our Work is Cut Out For Us
Catholic World News (CWN) reports: “US Catholics tilt left, Pew survey finds.” The recent Pew Forum study under discussion “shows that many self-described American Catholics ignore Church teachings on both theological and social issues.”
Francis Parater: A Patron Saint for Boy Scouts?
A Patron Saint for Boy Scouts? Yes, there is a candidate whose cause has been introduced for canonization.
The Political Side of Pope Benedict
Gary Potter is deeply read on the Church’s traditional social teaching. He has spoken and written extensively on the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Here, he explores the political thinking of the current Supreme Pontiff.
The Heresy of Dual-Covenant Theology
I have just finished reading “The Old Covenant: Revoked or Not Revoked?” by Dr. Robert Sungenis. It is a study debunking the notion, now regnant in liberal theological circles, that the Old Covenant still stands side-by-side with the New Covenant. … Continue reading
Saint Ann’s House Has a Web Site
In the post, “The Status of Father Feeney’s Doctrinal Position,” I stated that the Sisters of Saint Ann’s House do not have a website. That has changed. The good Sisters now have a site here: Sisters of Saint Benedict Center, … Continue reading
Father Brian Harrison on the Necessity of Explicit Faith for Salvation
Father asks: “Can an ‘implicit faith in Christ’ be sufficient for salvation?” He answers “No.” And he does so in over thirty pages of serious scholarship, with copious references to Fathers, Doctors, approved theologians, and magisterial pronouncements.
Vatican II and Phenomenology
Catholic Family News has just published an informative article in the form of a book review. The review, by Paul Zarowny, Ph.D., delves into the phenomenological method of the Council Fathers, as studied by the Passionist priest, Father John F … Continue reading
What Do You get for the Priory that Has Everything?
This posting is something I debated within myself for a while, but I decided to go ahead with it. Our Priory has just about everything we need as far as the stuff of this world is considered. (Besides that, we … Continue reading
