They have laid me in the lower pit: in the dark places, and in the shadow of death (Psalm 87:7). After Our Lord endured the mock trial under Caiphas, and before being led in chains to Pilate, He was held … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Interview with Marco Tosatti on the Syrian Crisis
Marco Tosatti is an Italian journalist and author who, next to writing for the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, and for the Italian website, La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, has his own website on which he publishes important articles about the Catholic … Continue reading
The Vocation of the Prophet
This is a lighthearted imitation of the more serious poem by the South African Catholic poet, Roy Campbell, “The Making of a Poet.” There is something virile and muscular in Campbell’s poetry that makes it very attractive (which was not … Continue reading
Cardinal Burke Interviewed on Hot-Button Issues: SSPX, Malta, Dubia, Modernist Statements of Jesuit Superior General, etc.
Many thanks are due to our dear friend, Dr. Maike Hickson, for bringing this interview of Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke to our attention. You can read Maike’s fine summary at OnePeterFive.com. The interview is in four parts, all four of which … Continue reading
Syria, Trump, and the War Party
Some uncommonly common sense from Patrick J. Buchanan: By firing off five dozen Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield, our “America First” president may have plunged us into another Middle East war that his countrymen do not want to fight. … Continue reading
May Jesus Put Us Into the Pond and Heal Us of Our Sins
In Saint John’s Gospel there is an account particular to this Gospel of the healing of a paralytic by the Pond (or Pool) called Probatica. The poor man had lain there on his pallet for thirty-eight years hoping for a … Continue reading
RIP John Vennari
From the Fatima Network: JOSEPH JOHN VENNARI, R.I.P. (February 24, 1958 – April 4, 2017) Dear Friends, Joseph John Vennari died on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 at 10:46 a.m. E.S.T. It is not only Passion Tuesday, but the 98th anniversary … Continue reading
The ‘Dilemma’ of Saint Joseph
Now the generation of Christ was in this wise. When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and … Continue reading
Saint John of Capistrano and the Swallows
Here’s a little Catholic Americana for you. Today’s saint is Saint John of Capistrano, who gives his name to the old Franciscan Mission San Juan Capistrano in Orange County, California — associated with the memory of the “Father of California,” … Continue reading
Leo Rugiens
This was written in imitation of the poem, “The Hound of Hell,” by Father Leonard Feeney. Its name and theme are derived from I Peter 5:8, which is sung every night in the office of Compline. WATCH for the roaring … Continue reading
William Byrd’s Ave Verum, Sung by the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
On October 22, 2016 the Brothers and Sisters from Saint Benedict Center, with some students and volunteers, went to The Arbors of Bedford, an Assisted Living Facility in New Hampshire, to sing and play for the residents. Here is our … Continue reading
Please Pray for Father Calvin Goodwin, F.S.S.P.
Please pray for a priest friend of Saint Benedict Center, the Rev. Father Calvin Goodwin, a cleric of the Fraternity of Saint Peter. We received word today that he is in poor health and may die very soon. We have … Continue reading
What Are ‘the Errors of Russia?’
In her apparition of July 13, 1917, Our Lady of Fatima told Sister Lucy that “Russia will spread its errors throughout the world, raising up wars and persecutions against the Church. The good will be martyred, the Holy Father will have … Continue reading
OUTVETS Admitted to St. Patrick’s Day Parade after Threats of Violence
Mass Resistance and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts have received multiple reports from within the Allied War Veterans Council—organizers of Boston’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade—that the homosexual group OUTVETS was admitted to the 2017 parade only after numerous threats of … Continue reading
If Ecumenism is Bad, Indifferentism is Worse
In the March, 2017 issue of Catholic Family News (CFN) there is an article, written sometime after Vatican II (no date is given) by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre entitled “The Confusion Surrounding Ecumenism”. [I have since discovered that the article is … Continue reading
