For many years, I have made it a practice to challenge my children and grandchildren with questions about philosophy and the Faith. Sometimes, I can hear their teeth grind with angst or I catch the subtle roll of the eyes … Continue reading
Category: Culture Wars
‘A New Europe is Born’
It is wonderful when you look forward in eager anticipation to an event and then have your expectations fulfilled by it. It was like that for those, including this writer, who expected the results of the May 26 elections for … Continue reading
Pro-Aborts Assault Pro-Lifers, Boston Media Covers Up, Police Negligent
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts press release… The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today condemned the violent assault on peaceful, law abiding pro-life citizens perpetrated, Sunday, by left wing extremists on Boston Common. The League also denounced the … Continue reading
Catholic Action League of Mass Raps BC Law for Honoring Rep. Robert C. Scott
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts press release… The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized Jesuit administered Boston College Law School for presenting as its commencement speaker U. S. Representative Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (D-VA). Commencement Exercises were … Continue reading
Catholic Action League of Massachusetts on Obscene Rap Video Shot in Worcester Parish Church
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts press release… The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized Saint Peter’s Catholic Parish in Worcester for allowing the sanctuary and the nave of that church to be used in the … 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
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
Should Catholics Celebrate the New England Patriots?
With the 2019 Super Bowl victory by the New England Patriots, should Catholics join in celebrating a capitalist corporation which promotes moral depravity and sexual perversion, and which opposes religious freedom? The New England Patriots, as a corporation, and the … Continue reading
The New Catholic ‘Far-Right’ in France
For the first time in decades there is visible on the French political landscape politics rooted in France’s historical Catholicism. From the point of view and in the parlance of secular liberal globalists that makes the politics “far right,” “extreme … Continue reading
‘Happy Holidays’? Bah! Humbug!
Charles Dickens was a great literary genius. He had a gift for complicated plots, for colorful characters, and for emotionally evocative storytelling. As a social critic, he also penetrated into the unseemlier side of industrial capitalism, that Protestant beast that … Continue reading
Abberosexualism in State and Church
I. The political Left is reacting with hysteria to impending plans by the administration of President Donald J. Trump to reverse the arbitrary and dishonest interpretation of federal law, contrived by the Obama administration, to include so-called “gender identity” in … 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
Rally for God’s Marriage at Rivier University in Nashua, New Hampshire
Dozens of faithful Catholics rallied for true marriage on Sept. 8, 2018, after Rivier University, a Catholic institution in New Hampshire founded by the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary, published a “wedding” photo of two women kissing in the … Continue reading
Why Ecclesiastical Homosexualism is Such an Issue
The upcoming Synod on Youth is perceived my many, and with good reason, to be an instrument for promoting the homosexual agenda inside the Church. This — unbelievably! — at a time when that agenda is doing untold harm to … 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
