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
Category: Columns
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
How Power Brokers Beat War Drums
Read Behind the Sinking of the Lusitania by Pat Buchanan if you want to see how the United States have been led into wars by morally bereft politicians. And now they’re doing it again in Ukraine and Iraq/Syria. About how America became … Continue reading
‘The Vicar of Bray’ Explains How to Keep a Job in Tough Times
Thanks to WikiPedia and YouTube, in cooperation with Catholicism.org, ambitious seekers of ecclesiastical preferment everywhere may learn the tricks of the trade. Whether its a cushy sinecure you want, or something more labor intensive, just take the advice of the Vicar … Continue reading
League Criticizes Hibernians for Capitulating to Homosexual Group
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized the Ancient Order of Hibernians — organizers of New York’s Saint Patrick’s Day Parade — for inviting a homosexual group to march in the 2015 parade. The parade committee said its “change … Continue reading
‘Without Tradition, We Are Cattle’
Rorate Caeli has posted a fine piece of Spanish counterrevolutionary writing from the pen of Juan Manuel de Prada. The author makes some of the same points I have tried to make here on Catholicism.org, notably in Traditionalism is an Affirmation … Continue reading
NYC St. Patrick’s Day Parade Sells Out
Pat Archbold writes, in Cardinal Dolan and the NYC St. Patrick’s Gay Parade?: If reports are to be believed, a compromise is in the works that will amount to nothing less than an endorsement of the gay identity in the 2015 … Continue reading
The Globe’s Kevin Cullen Defines Once Catholic Ireland as “Backward”
In a metro column of The Boston Sunday Globe of August 24th, serial Catholic basher Kevin Cullen wrote about the controversy in Ireland over the discovery of unmarked graves of children at the site of a maternity home in Tuam … Continue reading
Victory for School Choice in New Hampshire
(Cato Institute) Low- and middle-income children in New Hampshire will now be able to use tax-credit scholarships at any school they choose, whether secular or religious. This morning, the New Hampshire Supreme Court (NHSC) followed the precedent of the U.S. Supreme Court … Continue reading
Anthony Fraser, RIP
We received sad news this morning. Anthony Fraser, the son of Hamish Fraser, died of a heart attack, either last night or early this morning. Anthony was the editor of Apropos Magazine, the successor to his father’s Approaches. Like his … Continue reading
The Saint Thérèse We Did Not Read About
Joe Sparks of Catholic Household website highlights some of the temptations that Saint Thérèse, the Little Flower, had to endure that are, to put it mildly, frightening. The first issue of her autobiography, Story of a Soul, was heavily edited (censored actually) … Continue reading
Fr. Grimm: Church Should Canonize Exemplary Non-Catholics
Below is a clip from Father Grimm’s fanciful article in UCANews. The last paragraph is a perfect example of the condescending obfuscation typical of liberal theologians. Abraham, Moses and the prophets had the same Faith, inchoatively, that we do; they believed in a Savior to … Continue reading
