Recorded on March 25, 1998: Fr. Peter Damian Mary Fehlner, FI and Mother Angelica promote the Catholic teaching of Our Lady as Coredemptrix, Mediatrix, and Advocate.
Category: Columns
Pro-abortion Polish actress selected to play Our Lady in ‘The Resurrection of the Christ’
(Doug Mainwaring/LifeSiteNews) — Director Mel Gibson’s choice of a radical pro-abortion extremist to play the role of the Blessed Virgin Mary in The Resurrection of the Christ has ignited a firestorm of protest in the actress’s native Poland, perhaps the most … Continue reading
Unity or Something Else? King Charles III meets Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican
Michael Haynes, an English Catholic journalist who is part of the Holy See Press Corps, has written what strikes me as a balanced account of the meeting between Pope Leo XIV and King Charles III for One Peter Five. Below … Continue reading
Controversial Big News from the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (‘Transalpine Redemptorists’)
Below is a message from the website of the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer (“Transalpine Redemptorists”). This community, who were at one point affiliated with the SSPX, made a canonical reconciliation with ecclesiastical officials under the now defunct Pontifical … Continue reading
Helen Andrews’ ‘The Great Feminization’ and the Church
An online magazine called Compact has published an intelligent and provocative article by Helen Andrews, “The Great Feminization.” In a nutshell, what Andrews accomplishes — complete with supporting statistics and scary anecdotes — is to trace the development of contemporary … Continue reading
Pope Leo Appoints Msgr. Josef Grünwidl as Archbishop of Vienna
(CWN) — Pope Leo XIV today named Msgr. Josef Grünwidl, 62, as the new archbishop of Vienna, a see whose last ten archbishops have been created cardinals, dating back to 1858. Ordained to the priesthood in 1988, Archbishop-designate Grünwidl was appointed by Pope Francis … Continue reading
Why Modern Israel is Not Biblical Israel
From the Unam Sanctam Catholicam YouTube channel (video below): “One of the strangest things about evangelical Protestantism is its love affair with the political state of Israel. The Israel of the Bible is equated with the current political State of … Continue reading
Edification from the Servant of God, Cardinal Merry Del Val, and Pope Leo XIV
The Vatican website has posted the Address of Pope Leo XIV to Participants in the Meeting of Studies on Cardinal Rafael Merry Del Val. I recommend you read it because it is very edifying. There are critics of the post-Vatican … Continue reading
Donate Stocks, Bonds, and other Securities to Saint Benedict Center and Get a Tax Break
One way of supporting our apostolate is to donate stocks, bonds, or other securities. Saint Benedict Center has the capability to receive securities through a brokerage type account. We do not give tax advice, but we understand the benefit to … Continue reading
All Traditional Latin Masses Cancelled in Diocese of Knoxville
(Unam Sanctam Catholicam/USC YouTube channel) Knoxville’s Bishop Mark Beckman cancels all Traditional Latin Masses in the eastern Tennessee diocese. For more coverage, go to this piece at Rorate Caeli: Traditional Latin Mass annihilated in the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee (Update: … Continue reading
Good News: FBI cuts ties with SPLC and ADL
The Associated Press reported yesterday on the good news that the FBI is terminating its longstaninding relationship with the SPLC and the ADL. Below is an AI-produced summary of the article: 1 The Associated Press reports that FBI Director Kash … Continue reading
Cardinal Cupich’s Non-Synodal Approach to L’Affaire Dick Durbin
This does not appear very synodal. (Jonathan Liedl/National Catholic Register) — The meetings of two groups of Illinois Catholic leaders chaired by Cardinal Blase Cupich were postponed indefinitely last week after a lay leader requested that the Chicago cardinal-archbishop’s controversial … Continue reading
A Yiddish Curse
I don’t usually share hate mail, but this the first time we’ve received a Yiddish curse via our contact form on Catholicism.org, and it somehow seems worth noting. This came in the digital mailbag last night: The Jewish Nation will … Continue reading
Gary Potter Has Died, May He Rest in Peace
Longitime friends of Saint Benedict Center, attendees of our annual conference, and readers of Catholicism.org will be saddened, as we were, to learn of the death of our old friend and collaborator, Mr. Gary Potter. Today, I was informed by … Continue reading
Traditional Liturgical Practices Predict Belief in the Real Presence
Last year, Dr. Natalie A. Lindemann published a scholarly journal article on predictors of Catholics’ belief in the Real Presence. Dr. Lindemann is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. She recently … Continue reading
