How many times have you read an article or watched the news and have been frustrated by what was an obviously incorrect argument, but you were at a loss as to what it was or how to reply? Well, wonder … Continue reading
Category: Polemics
Archbishop Viganò Now Sounds Prophetical
In saying what is headlined, I do not mean that Archbishop Viganò is foreseeing the future, but that he is teaching the truths of revealed religion with stunning clarity and holy urgency. His Grace is objecting to the continuation of … Continue reading
My Interview with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski: “What’s Wrong with the New Lectionary?”
Thanks to Steve Cunningham, of Sensus Fidelium, my interview with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski is now posted on YouTube and Gloria TV (see embedded video, below). For links to a dozen articles that Dr. Kwasniewski has written on the subject, see … Continue reading
Tolkien and Reality
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
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