It shall come as a surprise to no one that I am a great fan of J.R.R. Tolkien’s work. Having discovered The Lord of the Rings in Junior High (thanks in no small part to having been introduced to C.S. … Continue reading
Category: Polemics
Voting
A couple of weeks ago President Trump formally launched his campaign for reelection and the crowded field of Democrats seeking their party’s presidential nomination have had their first television debate. Election year 2020 is upon us. That makes this a … Continue reading
Catholic Action League Raps Injunction against Title X Compliance
The following is a Catholic Action League Press Release: The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today is criticizing a lower court judge for blocking the Trump Administration from restoring Ronald Reagan era reforms in the disbursement of Title X family planning dollars. U. S. … Continue reading
Deus Vult!
In 1095 Pope Urban II journeyed to his native France and to an assembly of Church dignitaries and Frankish knights gathered in a field outside the town of Clermont. There, he preached the First Crusade to liberate the Holy Land … Continue reading
A Boston Catholic Irishman on Saint Patrick and His Enemies
Perhaps nowhere else in Christendom can an entire nation and its vast diaspora of descendants trace their Catholic Faith and culture — and their prospects for eternal salvation — to a single saint. Our debt of gratitude to Saint Patrick … Continue reading
‘St. Augustine, Genesis, and Theistic Evolution’: My Interview with Joseph Gedney
My bright and learned interlocutor in this interview is a 17-year-old homeschooled young man who knows more about this subject than many older folk who pompously pontificate on it. Far from advocating, favoring, or providing useful arguments for theistic evolution, … Continue reading
Up From the Bottom (Part Two)
“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
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
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