His name was Feriale. She bought the animal for me as a Christmas present. It was a Terrabetta, aqua blue. We called it Feriale because he entered our home on a ferial day. What a beautiful animal it was. I … Continue reading
Category: Columns
Cardinal Burke is Right about Altar Girls
The New Emangelization blog recently defended the words of Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke on the detrimental effects of “altar girls” on priestly vocations. His Eminence’s words came in a much discussed interview published on that same blog. To defend the Cardinal, … Continue reading
Popularizing Universal Salvation
Michael Voris on the popularization of the heresies of Hans Urs von Balthasar by Father Robert Barron and Ignatius Press. For more on this subject on our site, click here.
Filial Appeal to Pope Francis on the Future of the Family
Let Pope Francis know you would like him to reaffirm categorically the Catholic teaching that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics cannot receive Holy Communion and that homosexual unions are contrary to Divine and natural law. Please join us in supporting the urgent … Continue reading
Edward Pentin: Cardinal Baldisseri’s ‘Evolution of Dogma’ vs St. Pius X’s Oath Against Modernism
Worth reading: (Edward Pentin) In response to Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri’s comment that “dogma has its own evolution”, a reader on my Register blog aptly quoted Pope St. Pius X’s ‘Oath Against Modernism’. The head of the Synod of Bishops secretariat, … Continue reading
Statement of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy on Marriage
This statement is from the British Province of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy (h/t: Rorate Caeli): Marriage in the teaching of the Catholic Church Marriage was instituted by God, not invented by man (cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church, n.1603). … Continue reading
Chinese Communist Economist Argues That Christianity Would Be Good for China
Four years ago I posted a column on our website about Lou Tseng-tsiang, a Prime Minister in the Chinese Republic in the early 1900s. While serving in his post Lou Tseng, who had been Protestant, converted to the Catholic Faith, under … Continue reading
Bl. Junipero Serra: The Real Man, Anti-Catholic Propaganda to the Contrary
I have just read a misinformation post (mostly misinformation or at best one-sided exaggeration) about a holy Franciscan missionary by not one, not two, but three contributors: Joe Mozingo, Matt Hamilton, and Jeff Gottlieb from the Los Angeles Times. Astounding, but hardly surprising, given the secular climate we … Continue reading
Epiclesis and Filioque: Church Unity and the Schismatics January 19
In praying for the return of the schismatics to Church unity under the pope, I thought, by way of contrast, to clarify my own mind on two issues that, as I see it, have no basis being controversial at all. … Continue reading
Votive Mass for Peace on Sanguinary ‘Roe’ Anniversary
The Mass propers we prayed here at Saint Benedict Center this morning were not those for the martyr saint of today, Saint Vincent; nor were they for that other Saint Vincent whose feast falls today: Saint Vincent Pallotti. They instead … Continue reading
Scrolling Issue Fixed on Site
Many of our readers probably noticed that we had a glitch on our site for a time. When a reader scrolled near the bottom of a page, he could not scroll back up; he was trapped in the comments section. This nuisance was fixed … Continue reading
Malarkey’s Malarkey: No Trip to Heaven and Back
I remember when this story came out five years ago. Like scores of other similar fantasies that get posted on the Internet, especially on Spirit Daily website, this was not true. The poor boy has just come out and admitted … Continue reading
Only in Baptism Does One Become a Child of God
This is a very good article addressing the error of the popular and widespread euphemism that all men are children of God by creation. Rachel Lu, Crisis Magazine: This last Sunday, we were treated to the Gospel reading in which Christ … Continue reading
Do You Know What Your Kid Is Studying in College?
Having recently completed a fun and enlightening read of Dr. Elizabeth Kantor’s Politically Incorrect Guide to English and American Literature, then just happening on the article “Un-Donne: When Secular Students Confront Reverent Classics” by Joan Faust in the Winter edition … Continue reading
Enough With the Lies, Islam IS a ‘Religion’ of Slaughter and Violence
History to the dogs. Who cares about that? Forget the victims and the Catholic martyrs from the seventh century on. Islam is a “religion of peace” don’t you know. Just read the holy Koran. Not that there weren’t Moslems who … Continue reading
