When people with a favorite heresy or moral depravity choose to hate and attack the Catholic Church for opposing their ideas, I can understand. I cannot agree, but can I understand the underlying logic behind their reaction. But when someone … Continue reading
Category: Heresies and Errors
Boston Archdiocesan Pastoral Center Offering Yoga
Boston Catholic Insider: The Boston Archdiocese is offering a yoga class at the Pastoral Center. As most people know, yoga (Sanskrit, Pāli: योग, yoga) is a physical, mental, and spiritual discipline, originating in ancient India.We reference the definition in wikipedia: … Continue reading
The Dangers of Scientism (December, 1946)
If a man were to say to me, “I refuse to use my eyesight except through a microscope,” I might think that the man is queer or crazy, and I would certainly try to avoid his company. Imagine taking a … Continue reading
Freedom From Religion Foundation: ‘It’s Time to Consider Quitting the Catholic Church’
The “Freedom From Religion Foundation” placed a full-page ad in the March 9 New York Times. Its title says, “IT’S TIME TO CONSIDER QUITTING THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.” Obviously addressed to Catholics, its eight paragraphs and snappy cartoon amount to a response … Continue reading
Sandra Fluke and Barbara Johnson: Two Peas in a Pod
Recently, two activists for sexual depravity have become media darlings. In both cases the Catholic Church was involved. In both cases the activist was professedly opposed to Catholic teaching and worked to advance a contrary agenda. In both cases they … Continue reading
The Devastation of Catholic Europe: Some Causes and Consequences of the Protestant Revolt
Introduction “Let us clearly understand the meaning of these words — Catholic, Protestant, and Reformation. Catholic means universal, and the religion which takes this epithet was called universal because all Christian people of every nation acknowledged it to be the … Continue reading
Fulton Sheen’s ‘A Plea for Intolerance’
This article recently came to Catholicism.org’s attention. These excerpts came from the Alliance for Life Ministries site. Ven. Emmanuel d’Alzon had similar ideas. America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. … Continue reading
Is Catholicism Superior?
Another good Michael Voris video. The titular question is one that we would hope Catholics would not have to think about much before replying. Implicit in what he is saying is that there is no salvation outside the Church. He … Continue reading
Fr. Thomas Keating on NPR: Heresy as Mysticism
Saturday, December 24. I went to Keene, N.H. to run errands. On the way, I said a chaplet of the Rosary. While carrying out my errands and on the trip back, I clicked on the local NPR affiliate to see … Continue reading
Martin Luther: ‘A True Heretic’
The words are not mine, but the Pope’s. In his bull condemning the errors of Martin Luther, Exurge Domine, Pope Leo X described his subject as “one whose faith is notoriously suspect and in fact a true heretic.” Yet Catholics … Continue reading
Reclassifying the Unspeakable
The eerie headline — “Are Mental Health Professionals Working to Normalize Pedophilia?” — provides me an unwelcome opportunity to revisit the theme I sounded recently in Normalcy as Evangelism. A group of academic pedophile lobbyists — i.e., “scientific” activists who … Continue reading
Over 300 Austrian Priests Pledge to Disobey Church Law and Push for Women’s ‘Ordination’
Catholic Culture: Over 300 of Austria’s 4,200 priests have pledged to take part in Aufruf zum Ungehorsam (Call to Disobedience), an initiative launched in June. The Call to Disobedience document cites “the Roman refusal of a long-overdue Church reform and … Continue reading
Scientology in Decline: ‘Dianetics,’ Required Reading for Leaders of Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam
Ruth Davis Konigsberg of Time: The Church of Scientology is a notoriously difficult subject for journalists. The press has long been considered an enemy of the church, which was founded half a century ago by science-fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard. … Continue reading