Nine months ago I related several humorous and fascinating anecdotes from the lives of the saints in “Just a Few Unusual Happenings in the Lives of the Saints.” Here are some more. One of my favorites is not really spectacular, … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Steve Wood’s Warning on Degenerate Proselytism in the Wake of Obergefell
A friend just sent me a newsletter he gets from Steve Wood. It concerns Obergefell v. Hodges and the terrible prospects that wicked bit of judicial activism holds out for our youth. My correspondent is of the opinion that Mr. Wood is one of the few … Continue reading
Rod Dreher on Obergefell and Living as Exiles
Rod Dreher has authored a thoughtful piece for Time on Friday’s horrible SCOTUS decision: Orthodox Christians Must Now Learn To Live as Exiles in Our Own Country. I recommend reading it. He plugs his “Benedict Option,” which is, for all practical purposes, … Continue reading
Catholic Action League Denounces Supreme Court Decision on Same Sex Marriage
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized this morning’s decision by the U. S. Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that both the Due Process and Equal Protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of … Continue reading
Two Mites and Spiritual Abundance
And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much. And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a … Continue reading
Don Bosco, EENS, and the Waldensians
Thanks to the rare occasion of a big Waldensian-related event hitting the news cycle, we take the opportunity to show what the charitable and zealous Saint John Bosco said in their regard, especially since it falls right in line with our apostolate. As we … Continue reading
German Bishops Help the Church ‘Question Herself’ about Family Diversity ahead of Synod
In the bizarro world that is modern German Catholicism — at least as dictated by those who consider themselves practically independent of the papacy — the Church should “question herself” about the different forms the family takes. Read this nominalist, blasphemous … Continue reading
Glimpses Behind Closed Doors: Marco Tosatti on Cardinal Kasper’s Self-Correction
While observers of the discussion concerning the Synod of Bishops on Marriage and the Family are still wondering what it was that has recently caused Cardinal Walter Kasper suddenly (but stammeringly) to deny that which he had claimed a year or … Continue reading
Butte, Montana, Our Lady’s Town
With all the bad news in the Church and the world, it is an encouragement to read about the Catholic love for Mary in a mining city in the 630 mile-wide “mountain state,” Montana. This is part of American Catholic … Continue reading
Respected Urologist Fired for Professional Opinions Opposing Aberrosexual Agenda
Goodbye medical ethics! (Mass Resistance) On March 30, a major Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), expelled a well-respected urologist from its medical staff because he voiced concerns about the unhealthy nature of homosexual behavior and … Continue reading
A Manifesto of Christian Resistance
From Brother Alexis Bugnolo… Originally posted on From Rome: Against perverse and unnatural forms of Marriage TO BE READ FROM ALL THE PULPITS OF AMERICA I, as a disciple of Christ Jesus, hold and believe that the US Supreme Court … Continue reading
Sister Lucy to Cardinal: Final Confrontation between the Lord and Satan will be over Family and Marriage.
Rorate Caeli has published a translated excerpt from an interview with Cardinal Carlo Caffarra, the Archbishop of Bologna. The interview took place on Feburary 16, 2008, but has recently stirred up more interest in light of the Synod on the Family. I … Continue reading
In Defense of Rachel Dolezal
This is going to be a very short post. I want to come to the defense of Rachel Dolezal. She’s getting a lot of bad press now because she is a white woman of German and Czech ancestry who says, … Continue reading
After Protests by the Catholic Action League, O. F. M. are M-I-A at ‘Pride’ Festival
Following protests, this year and last year, by the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, the Franciscan Friars of Boston’s Saint Anthony’s Shrine—members of the Holy Name Province of the Order of Friars Minor—apparently decided to forgo, for the first time in several years, … Continue reading
Explorers Youth Group Photo Gallery
The Federation of North American Explorers (FNE) is a great program that offers single-gender scouting for both boys and girls. This important youth apostolate, which our community participates in, has boys’ sections with Brother Louis Marie and the Dads as … Continue reading
