In the Epistle reading on Ash Wednesday we have these verses from the prophet Joel: Now therefore saith the Lord: Be converted to me with all your heart, in fasting, and in weeping, and in mourning. And rend your hearts, and … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Exorcists Warn About Witches’ ‘Spell to Bind Donald Trump’
Washington D.C., Mar 2, 2017 / 05:49 am (National Catholic Register) — Witches in the U.S. are offering a solution to those who say Donald Trump is not their president: cast a spell on him. It’s a planned monthly event … Continue reading
The SPLC ‘Hate Group’ Calumny Continues
This Sunday’s edition of the Manchester Union Leader ran an article about Saint Benedict Center entitled “Richmond religious sect rejects ‘hate group’ label.” My intention in this brief statement is to correct some of the factual errors and libelous disinformation … Continue reading
Justly Afflicted
This poem was inspired by the collect for Septuagesima Sunday. It follows the rhyme and meter scheme (but not the subject or mood) of a well known poem by a great American poet. The comments section is open for those … Continue reading
‘Tell That Fox’
And he said to them: Go and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I am consummated (Luke 13:32). One cannot accuse the Son of God of being “nice.” … Continue reading
Secularism, Secession, and Bathrooms
(Patrick J. Buchanan) As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act … Continue reading
Sign Up for My Email List
Once every two weeks, I send out an email I call Ad Rem. (This Latin phrase means, roughly, “to the point.”) The main contents of those mailings are published on this site, but some other messages and offers come in the … Continue reading
On Michael Voris and Church Militant: USA Today Doesn’t Get It
USA Today ran a lengthy piece on Michael Voris, Saint Michael’s Media, and Church Militant under the headline, “Right-wing fringe group building multimedia empire near Detroit.” The piece was written by Robert Allen, of the Detroit Free Press, which is owned by Gannett, the parent … Continue reading
Buchanan on the Deep State, Trump, Flynn
From Patrick J. Buchanan: When Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign as national security adviser, Bill Kristol purred his satisfaction, “If it comes to it, prefer the deep state to the Trump state.” To Kristol, the permanent regime, not … Continue reading
Interview with Bp. Schneider: SSPX, Amoris Laetitia, Whitewashing Luther, etc.
Mauricio Ponce interviews Bishop Athanasius Schneider for the Rorate Caeli and Adelante la Fe websites. Topics covered include the possible SSPX regularization, priests refusing Communion in the hand, the harmful and confusing attempts to rehabilitate Martin Luther, and continued confusion over Amoris Laetitia.
There Is Humility, and There Is ‘Humility’
It is not good to take the bread of the children, and to cast it to the dogs (Matthew 15:26). Now, suppose you were this Gentile woman to whom Jesus addressed these words. Suppose you had lived in the Canaanite … Continue reading
Wars and (Ecclesiastical) Rumors of Wars
By OnePeterFive.com contributor, Oakes Spalding, we are told… All sorts of rumors are now swirling about current events in the Church: Cardinal Burke has been cancelling engagements. Why? Cardinal Muller has resigned from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the … Continue reading
Is the Left Playing with Fire Again?
From Patrick J. Buchanan: To those who lived through that era that tore us apart in the ’60s and ’70s, it is starting to look like “deja vu all over again.” And as Adlai Stevenson, Bobby Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey … Continue reading
Jesuit LGBTQ Activist Bashes Bannon
Father James Martin is at it again… (Thomas Williams/Breitbart News) On the far-left MSNBC cable television channel Sunday, Father James Martin said that Steve Bannon is a “radical traditionalist” opposing Pope Francis’s reforms and pining “for a time when the … Continue reading
Obama Goes Not Quietly
(Paul Sperry/New York Post) When former President Barack Obama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — … Continue reading
