America has been blessed with many saints, hundreds of heroic missionaries, and hundreds of martyrs, only eight of whom (the North American Martyrs) have been canonized. This article will highlight a few prophetic voices that warned of the catastrophic assaults … Continue reading
Category: Outside the Church there is no Salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus)
Saint John Eudes on the Necessity of the Catholic Church for Salvation
From Saint John Eudes’ book, Baptism: Man’s Contract with God: That you may have a true faith in those things which God has revealed, it is necessary that you should believe in the Catholic Church, in which alone you can … Continue reading
CDF’s Archbishop Luis F. Ladaria: ‘Salvation in the Church, Body of Christ’
From…. CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH Letter Placuit Deo To the Bishops of the Catholic Church On Certain Aspects of Christian Salvation V. Salvation in the Church, Body of Christ 12. The place where we receive the salvation brought … Continue reading
Billy Graham’s ‘Catholic’ Apotheosis
My next Reconquest will be an interview with Charles Coulombe on the subject, “The Canonization of Billy Graham.” But I would also like to write some things about the vast outpouring of Catholic eulogies for the popular preacher, which phenomenon … Continue reading
Thirteen Minute Sermon on ‘Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus’
Our friend Steve Cunningham, of the Veritas Radio Network’s “Sermon Sunday” fame, has posted a great sermon on his YouTube channel, Sensus Fidelium. It is a sermon from the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, and it was preached just over three … Continue reading
The Attack on Marriage Is an Attack on the Church
The attack on marriage and the family is a mystical unfolding of the attack on the exclusive relationship of fidelity between Jesus Christ and His Spouse, the Catholic Church. Terrestrial marriage — even as a Christian Sacrament — is an … Continue reading
The Five Wounds and Five Joys of the Modern Church
First he was found faultless in his five senses, and then failed never the knight in his five fingers, and all his trust in the field was in the five wounds that Christ caught on the cross, as the creed … Continue reading
Saint Augustine: ‘Enter in by the Door’
For today, day three of the Octave of Pentecost, the Roman office of Matins has us read Saint Augustine’s commentary for the daily Gospel (John 10:1-10). Concerning the necessity of Christ and His Church for salvation, this is what the Doctor of Grace … Continue reading
If Ecumenism is Bad, Indifferentism is Worse
In the March, 2017 issue of Catholic Family News (CFN) there is an article, written sometime after Vatican II (no date is given) by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre entitled “The Confusion Surrounding Ecumenism”. [I have since discovered that the article is … Continue reading
Gianna Jessen and Brownson’s ‘Smallest Peg’
Meet Gianna Jessen. She’s not a Catholic. She identifies as a Christian. She says she only wants Jesus. Before I go on with this, let me say that I, too, hate reading news stories (or anything else on the Internet) … Continue reading
The OFFICIAL Graphic for the Pope’s American Visit (SBC Version)
The media in the US have been scrambling for “papal” and “Catholic” news stories in the lead-in to Pope Francis’ American visit (September 22 – 27). With headlines like “Conservative dissent is brewing inside the Vatican” and “As Pope visit … Continue reading