Here is a question for any reader who is a lifelong Catholic younger than 50: Have you ever heard a homily preached against the evil of contraception? My guess is that you have not. I know that I never have … Continue reading
Category: Heresies and Errors
Scientism Is Not Science
Brother Francis wrote an article on Scientism in 1946 for From the Housetops magazine before the order of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary was founded. You can read it here. National Catholic Register, Joseph Pearce: Science is good … Continue reading
Ireland: Bishops’ Counseling Service Offers Services to Homosexual Couples
Why are we not surprised? en.news: The Irish Catholic marriage counselling service Accord will offer its services also to same-sex couples who practice homosexual fornication, according to TheTimes.co.uk (July 23). More here.
Teilhard de Chardin’s Racism and Eugenicism
Religious Dispatches, From essay on “Human Energy”: “What fundamental attitude…should the advancing wing of humanity take to fixed or definitely unprogressive ethnical groups? The earth is a closed and limited surface. To what extent should it tolerate, racially or nationally, … Continue reading
Papua’s Dancing Processional: ‘Bird of Paradise’ for Ordination of Father John Billy
Now all you trads, lighten up. This is great. See the birdie? Gloria TV: The New Zealand bishops’ conference published on Facebook (April 15) a video showing the priestly ordination of Father John Billy. Billy is the first priest from the … Continue reading
Saving the Best Wine for Last
This a a very good and insightful little article by Scott Smith, which I post below. It demonstrates that there are hidden depths in all of scripture. I remember many years ago chatting with a Seventh Day Adventist elder in … Continue reading
German Bishop Invites All Protestant Spouses of Catholics to Holy Communion
As expected, and so promptly Catholic Herald: The Bishop of Würzburg has allowed all Protestants married to Catholics to receive Holy Communion at jubilee Masses for married couples in his cathedral. Report here.
Why the ‘Catholic Revival’ Failed
In our last outing, after considering the horror of a society in which the medical murder of little Alfie Evans could occur — especially one as “God-invoking” and “nice” as that of the 21st century West — it was promised … Continue reading
Science vs. God
Modern man derives much of his sense of himself as master of all he surveys from science and technology in general, but nothing feeds his notion of being the master of life itself more than the new birth technologies. They … Continue reading
German Bishops Go Ahead And Publish OK For Intercommunion: We Must Be ‘Courageous’
“Courageous”? How about “audacious”? 1Peter5, Maike Hickson: The German bishops published today their very controversial pastoral handout which allows Protestant spouses of Catholics, in certain cases, to receive Holy Communion. Since Pope Francis has, on 21 June, objected to a national bishops’ conference’s … Continue reading
Serious Opposition Mounts to Intercommunion Debacle
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: The 21 June papal remarks concerning the German bishops’ handout allowing some Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion have caused a strong reaction from several parties, including a German canonist/ Professor Thomas Schüller, a professor of canon … Continue reading
Cardinal Brandmuller On Intercommunion: ‘One Is Either Fully Catholic Or Not At All’
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: In light of the 21 June remarks by Pope Francis concerning the German intercommunion handout allowing some Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive Holy Communion, Cardinal Brandmüller reminds Catholics now of the fundamental principles involved in this matter. … Continue reading
Catholic Doctrine ‘Unacceptable’? To Whom Metropolitan Kliment?
AsiaNews, Vladimir Rozanskij: Kirill’s great rival in the 2009 patriarchal elections highlights the “unacceptable” differences that exist between Catholicism and Orthodoxy. The opinions of Catholics and other heretics about God are “unacceptable”. Report is here.
Pan-Amazon Synod for 2019: Married Priests and Even ‘Women Priests’ on Agenda
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: The Vatican presented something important today, 8 June, at a press conference: the Preparatory Document for the upcoming 2019 Pan-Amazon Synod in which there is now talk about giving women some “type of official ministry” and of making … Continue reading
The Irish Abortion Referendum: But How?
What Oliver Cromwell could not do, what an Gorta Mór (the Great Hunger) could not do, what hundreds of years of Anglo-Protestant persecution could not do to the Irish Catholic people — namely, rob them of their faith and morals … Continue reading
