As I post this it is 1:00 AM, October 13, now in Pakistan. Please pray for Asia Bibi right now and before you go to sleep. Catholic Herald, Father Alexander Lucie-Smith: Regular readers of the magazine will not have forgotten the plight … Continue reading
Wikileaks has revealed some embarrassing anti-Catholic remarks from Hilary Clinton’s staffers. To quote Mike Church (from a Facebook post): Slick Hillary’s good squad of J. Halpin and Jennifer Palmieri, with an assist from the ubiquitous electronic voyeur John Podesta, had … Continue reading
The vocation to the consecrated life as a religious brother is a great gift of God. Brothers live the vows of evangelical perfection. We also live the common life of liturgical prayer, mental prayer, study, work, and apostolic action in … Continue reading
Although our country celebrates Columbus Day today, Monday October 10, so as to give workers a long weekend, everyone knows that the real holiday is October 12. This is the day, in 1492, when Christopher Columbus first sited land after … Continue reading
What is patriotism for a Catholic? Do we have to be patriotic? How do we do so? These questions are answered in the first segment of this episode of Reconquest. For the remaining segments, I give a rapid-fire review of the … Continue reading
Catching up on news after our conference weekend (a good one, by all accounts I’ve heard from attendees), I became disturbed at the possibility of imminent war. I speak of the saber rattling over Syria. If the Warhawks get their … Continue reading
A Russian prince, Karl Klugkist, born in Kiev on March 25, 1871, went into exile to Italy at the start of World War I. He was, as a prince, very well educated and had a healthy interest in religious matters. … Continue reading
If you have not read yesterday’s release by the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, please do so and consider this action item: Please contact WGBH and let them know how outraged you were by Emily Rooney’s contemptuous and unjust slander of … Continue reading
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized public television host Emily Rooney for claiming that Padre Pio—Catholicism’s most popular modern saint—was “a charlatan.” Rooney, a former network television producer, moderates a weekly, half-hour discussion program, Beat the Press, where she and four panelists, … Continue reading
CATHOLIC ACTION LEAGUE MOURNS THE DEATH OF PAUL LIKOUDIS C.J. Doyle The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts is today mourning the untimely death of one of the most valiant exponents of the Catholic Faith of our generation, Paul Likoudis, who died, … Continue reading
She was not the first American to become a nun. That was the convert Lydia Longely of Groton, Massachusetts. Lydia was born in 1674. At the age of twenty, after being ransomed from the Indians who slaughtered her parents some … Continue reading
The learned and much labored Brother Alexis Bugnolo will be speaking at our conference this year. Brother Alexis is translator of the works of Saint Bonaventure, Registrar of the Scholasticum, author of the Italian language L’osservanza antica, and editor of the scholarly and … Continue reading
This saying (often overrated as an axiom), is attributed to Lord John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron of Acton (1834-1902). This historian, writer, and moralist did not invent the cliché. That may have been William Pitt who uttered something nearly identical in a speech … Continue reading
Brother Francis told us that directly across from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is the mosque of Omar which posts a blasphemous challenge to the humility of God in the Incarnation. “God is Greater” the sign reads. Greater … Continue reading
Sister Maria Philomena, director of the Saint Augustine Institute of Wisdom, is my guest for this episode. Sister and I will discuss the typology of Mary in the Old Testament. (This is the promised sequel to my earlier show, Looking at Old … Continue reading
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