(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
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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
Out of Control Judiciary?
From Patrick J. Buchanan: Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools. They … Continue reading
Our Educational Philosophy at SBC and IHM School
What follows is an excerpt from our IHM School Handbook describing the school’s Educational Philosophy. We post it here for your edification. Education at IHM School is firmly rooted in Catholicity. We believe what was said so strongly by Ven. Emmanuel … Continue reading
Was Our Lord’s Shoulder Wound Prefigured in the Old Testament?
Thou shalt take the fat of the ram, and the rump, and the fat that covereth the lungs, and the caul of the liver, and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, and the right shoulder, because … Continue reading
Help Our School and Pay off Your Mortgage, Really
The following is the text of an email that I just sent out to our Immaculate Heart of Mary School mailing list. Please consider this if you are a homeowner with a mortgage to pay off. The math actually works for … Continue reading
Why the Trumpian Saber Rattling?
President Trump seems to have a mix of America Firsters and war hawks among his advisers. His expressed desire for better relations with Russia and his pre-election remarks concerning a non-interventionist policy in Syria bespeak an anti-war-hawk, non-interventionist policy. On … Continue reading
