Phil Lawler has what may be considered by some traditional-minded Catholics a “controversial” article on Catholic Culture website on this current issue of the CIA’s use of torture to get information from terrorists or suspected terrorists. Prescinding from the issue … Continue reading
Doing some research for a series of classes I’m giving on Handel’s Messiah, I came across this fun fact on Wikipedia: In Italy Handel met librettist Antonio Salvi, with whom he later collaborated. Handel left for Rome and, since opera … Continue reading
Yes, sheep in the hills of Bethlehem and in December. And, yes, the Birth of Christ was on December 25. Brother André wrote a noteworthy article for this website nine years ago defending the traditional date for Christmas. Now would … Continue reading
What does it mean when we say that “all our knowledge of God is analogical”? In brief, it means that every concept that we rightly apply to God is partly the same as, but also partly different from, that same … Continue reading
I posted this in the Column section in the hope that more people would read it. Just a bit more information as a side bar: The Spanish flag has flown for a longer period over more of the land that … Continue reading
I do not understand why morally upright “Christians” who have to deal with the homosexual agenda in their businesses should always apologize for their convictions. They say things like, “we do not care what homosexual couples do in the privacy … Continue reading
Readers may recall that, a little over two years ago, we reported that… The new Prior General of the Carthusians, Dom François Marie Velut, O. Carth., was once known as Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinité. …and was the Fatima … Continue reading
Some readers recently commented on a posting regarding the tragic case of Brittany Maynard. The word “hell,” which appeared in several of the comments, flagged off our moderation system not to allow those comments to be published, pending moderation. I … Continue reading
Jeff Mirus does not believe in the thrice defined dogma of “no salvation outside the Church” in its literal and “irreformable” clarity (as a de fide doctrine is defined at Vatican I). Yet Mirus props himself in a gratuitous “chair” to … Continue reading
WHY? If one can be saved in any religion, why bother with the “burden” of the One True Religion’s demands? Why bother going to Mass or Confession? Protestants can be saved without these sacraments. For that matter, so can Jews, … Continue reading
We are experiencing some problems with the Disqus comment system. All comments are being recorded and posted. The problem is with their syncing to our web site in such a way that they are properly displayed on our front page. … Continue reading
Today’s neo-conservatives in the Church — also called “neo-Catholics” — are the doctrinal, moral, and theological equivalent of Russia’s revolutionary Mensheviks. As Solzhenitsyn often said, Mensheviks prepare the field for Bolsheviks (as did the Girondins for the Jacobins). Dr. Jeffrey Mirus … Continue reading
Having read Father Serafino M. Lanzetta’s “Mercy according to Cardinal Kasper,” a couple of weeks ago, I was recently musing over the matter when it struck me: If, as Father Serafino Maria says, the Cardinal makes mercy God’s fundamental attribute, then he … Continue reading
Unusual Things in the Lives of the Saints I am writing this without doing reference work. These accounts are in my memory, having read many books on the saints, including Father Alvin Butler’s magnum opus: short, but sometimes not so … Continue reading
Bishop Thomas J. Tobin, of Providence, R.I., has published some frank observations on the Synod, some of which I excerpt here: In trying to accommodate the needs of the age, as Pope Francis suggests, the Church risks the danger of losing … Continue reading
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