Today is the feast day of the prophet Saint Simeon who, like John the Baptist, proclaimed not the coming of Christ, but that the Messiah has now come; and this one here, whom I hold, or whom I point my … Continue reading
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UPDATED 2014 Conference Schedule
Update: Print this flyer and get others to come too! Join us on Friday-Saturday, October 10 and 11, 2014, for Saint Benedict Center’s annual conference. You may register online or by telephone: (603) 239-6485. What: This year’s conference theme is “Catholic and Counterrevolutionary” Where: Saint Benedict … Continue reading
Special Conference Announcement
Due to lamentable circumstances beyond his and our control, the traditional religious priest who was scheduled to give two talks at our upcoming conference, Father Sean Kopczynski, is unable to be present at the event. Both the good Father Sean … Continue reading
Kasper: If Vatican II Changed Ecclesiology Why Not Marriage?
There you have it. Dilute the “irreformable” dogma of “No salvation outside the Church” (by obfuscation and subterfuge, that is) then why not clip away at the hedges protecting the integrity of holy matrimony. Every doctrine is subject to revision if … Continue reading
A Priest Writing Like a Priest Ought to Write
Writing for Rorate Caeli, Father Richard Cipolla has some good and priestly words for his readers (see especially the emboldened paragraph below). To his concerns that the social questions should be important to traditionalists, we add that doctrinal concerns ought to … Continue reading
September 29: Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael
I culled this for today’s feast day, with a little editing, from my trilogy: “All Angels Are Not Created Equal,” “The Angels Our Spiritual Cousins,” and “The Holy Angels: Our Faithful Allies in the History of Salvation.” These articles can all … Continue reading
Father Claude Barthe on the SSPX Situation and “Imperfect Communion”
The Rorate Caeli site has posted the translation of an important analysis by Father Claude Barthe, originally written in French for the website of the Catholic journal, l’Homme Nouveau. L’abbé Barthe is the main chaplain of the Populus Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage to Rome. Aside from … Continue reading
Padre Pio’s Stunning Revelation from Our Wounded Savior
The letters of Saint Padre Pio are an inexhaustible treasure. Pauline Books and Media published many of the letters written to his spiritual director in Secrets of a Soul: Padre Pio’s Letters to His Spiritual Directors. Although Padre Pio gives … Continue reading
Evil in the Church
Bad news just keeps coming — hard and fast. Many very recent events in the Church have faithful Catholics bewildered, discouraged, and even angered. These are natural reactions to the problem of evil. While righteous anger has its place in … Continue reading
Why Does (Did) the Roman Catholic Church Make Latin Her Language?
Chris Jackson of The Remnant has provided another excellent article on the reasons why the Church adopted the Latin language in her liturgy, decrees, and official communications. The article was written in 1919 by Father John Francis Sullivan and it … Continue reading
Catholic Columnist Ross Douthat Lambasts Sen.Ted Cruz Insulting Speech
I do not know much about Ross Douthat and I am therefore not advocating his columns. I don’t read them online, nor do I have time to. I try to keep exclusively with news that affects the Church. And this … Continue reading
On Papal Infallibility
The Remnant’s Chris Jackson posted last Friday a clear and concise defense of the dogma of papal infallibility — what it is and what it is not — written by Father Michael Gavin in 1881. The article was written to refute an … Continue reading
Breaking News: Chinese Reds Don’t Like Dalai Lama Saying He’s the Last Reincarnation of Buddha
Need some comic relief. This is a doozy. The atheist Communist government of China wants the right to say who the next reincarnation of Buddha is. It’s their tradition, say the atheists. The Dalai Lama had dubbed some little tyke … Continue reading
Congratulations to the Newly Professed and Community
A religious profession is a good and beautiful thing. We here at Saint Benedict Center, Richmond, congratulate the Brothers and Sisters at Saint Benedict Center in Still River, Massachusetts, on the recent profession of Sister Mary Imelda: On September 8th, … Continue reading
Keep the Church of Holy Innocents Opened!
Petition His Eminence Cardinal Dolan to Keep the Church of the Holy Innocents Open! Click here to sign. They almost have reached their goal! Please consider supporting the parishioners of the Church of the Holy Innocents and the daily traditional Mass … Continue reading
