“Those who have not lived before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of life.” So said, with great irony, Charles Maurice de Tallyrand, the renegade bishop who did as much as any individual to empower the French Revolution of … Continue reading
Category: Polemics
The Truth About Padre Pio
“Did You Know That Padre Pio’s Stigmata Was Self-Inflicted? My ‘Pastor’ Friend Says It Was.” I have a friend who left the Church many years ago and is now a pastor of a small Pentecostal community in my home town. … Continue reading
The Civilizationists
There is a new word I’ve come across lately: civilizationist. I don’t know who coined it and it’s an awkward word but communicates well enough I may take to using it. Those who do signify by it someone who is … Continue reading
Viganò, the Homoheresy, and Spiritual Blindness
Not long ago, I was in an online controversy with a young woman who objected to something I wrote. We went back and forth a bit, but the discussion went nowhere fast. She was defending positions diametrically opposed to the … Continue reading
Lessons to Learn from Clerical Scandals
It is not my custom to write about the latest scandal. There are good reasons for this. The world is fallen and scandals abound, even in the best of times. To dwell on them risks losing sight of the good … Continue reading
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
Science, Technology, and God
One of the two major reasons that people become atheists is that secondary causality is, so they think, sufficient to explain all that exists without any reference to God. This and the existence of evil are the two objections to … Continue reading
A Remedy for Young Turks and Old Fools
There is an excellent fourteen-minute sermon called “The Error of Juvenilism” available online for the hearing. It is much worth a careful listen. The observations of the preacher, and the questions that arise in his wake, provide us with a … Continue reading
Video: Is ‘Lead Us Not into Temptation’ a Bad Translation?
My interview with Mr. Jonathan Arrington was recorded for Reconquest Episode 108: Is ‘Lead Us Not into Temptation’ a Bad Translation? To learn more about the Veritas Radio Network and the special offer good from now till the Feast of the … Continue reading
Holy Cross College Considering Changing ‘Crusader’ Mascot
The Jesuit administered College of the Holy Cross is actually considering changing the historic name of its football team, as the term Crusaders might be offensive to the followers of Mohamed. There is no indication that any Muslim, whose community … Continue reading
Why Women Should Wear Chapel Veils in Church
Some may say that an issue such as this is not my prerogative to engage — being a man, and a layman at that. Nevertheless, I will discharge my mind. And I shall be brief. Certainly it is a minor … Continue reading
SPLC: The Hate that Keeps on Hating
When a local paper, the Monadnock Shopper News, published a nice little human interest story on Saint Benedict Center, our school, and our Latin Mass, there was a letter sent to the editor calling the publishers out for legitimizing a … Continue reading
My Statement on ‘The Nashville Statement’
A group of conservative evangelical Christians has published a manifesto in defense of marriage, and in opposition to the LGBTQ attempts to redefine human sexuality. With a short preamble and fourteen brief articles, the concise credo is known as “The … Continue reading
Catholic Truth, Si; False Dialectic, No!
We live in an age of false dialectics and disinformation of all sorts, at the national and international levels. It is a time when the historical crimes, real or perceived, of Euro-American Christians function as camouflage for an agenda of … Continue reading
La Civiltà Cattolica versus Captain America
Two collaborators of Pope Francis have written an editorial lambasting America’s religious right in the pages of La Civiltà Cattolica. The editorial, penned by Father Antonio Spadaro S.J. (Civiltà’s editor) and Argentine Presbyterian Pastor Marcelo Figueroa, is entitled Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic … Continue reading
