The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news update… Despite opinions expressed by Pope Francis, Cardinal Sean O’Malley and other prelates, faithful Catholics are not required, by Church teaching or Canon Law, to receive abortion tainted vaccines. Pro-life Catholics have serious, reasonable, well founded and … Continue reading
Category: Politics and Society
Father Robert McTeigue Interviews Joe Doyle and Brian Camenker
Father Robert McTeigue, SJ, interviewed two Boston culture warriors on the subject “Do Traditional Views Have a Political Home?” One of these is Catholicism.org contributor and Saint Benedict Center conference speaker, C.J. (Joe) Doyle. Below is an embedded audio file … Continue reading
The Love of Friendship and the Virtue of Prudence
Regular readers of this site will have noted that friendship is a theme that has been considered in these pages from different angles. Aside from Dr. Robert Hickson’s Evil Friendships in History and Brian Kelly’s brief, The Devil Has No … Continue reading
The Long Defeat: Christendom and Its Defenders, 1789 to the Present. Part 3: The Eagle Has Two Heads
As we saw in our last instalment, the House of Habsburg carried on the traditions of the Holy Roman Empire into the 20th century, via the relatively new political construction called Austria-Hungary. Shepherded through the last half of the 19th … Continue reading
My Two Talks at the Crusade Congress: ‘Christendom’s Building Blocks, Catholic Communities’
This past Spring, I was in Louisiana for The CRUSADER Knight Congress. , which had as its theme, “Upon These Rocks: Building Christian Communities from the Rubble of Modernity.” The two following embedded files are hosted on Gloria.TV, a Catholic YouTube … Continue reading
C.J. Doyle: More Anti-Catholic LGBTQ Bigotry from ‘The Boston Herald’
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release… The Boston Herald, the socially liberal, faux conservative Republican newspaper with a thirty year history of anti-Catholic bigotry—whose parade of Catholic bashers has included Monica Collins, Margery Eagan, Howie Carr, Alan Dershowitz and … Continue reading
Mass. GOP Legislators Demand Ouster of Orthodox Catholic
The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release… On June 6th, twenty-nine of the thirty Republican members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives sent a letter to the Chairman of the Bay State’s Republican Party, James J. Lyons, … Continue reading
Yes, Usury is Condemned by the Catholic Church
While I was in Louisiana last week I received the following email on usury from the theologian, Dr. John Lamont. He sent it to a list of people he thought he would be interested. With his kind permission, I am … Continue reading
Father Michael Copenhagen on the Immorality of Abortion Derived ‘Vaccines’
A good priest friend of ours sent me this wonderful video this morning, by Father Michael Copenhagen, who appears to be an Eastern Rite Catholic priest. The quotes that follow were complied by our priest friend. I put the word … Continue reading
The Long Defeat: Christendom and Its Defenders, 1789 to the Present. Part 2: Defenders of Empire
Although we shall look at each Western nation in turn, it is important to remember that from the very beginning of Christendom - which we may date from Christ’s uniting the Davidic Kingship with the nascent Church on the first … Continue reading
The Long Defeat: Christendom and Its Defenders, 1789 to the Present. Part 1: To Begin with
“Actually I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic, so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’— though it contains (and in legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses … Continue reading
Senator Rand Paul is to Be Commended for Confronting Richard Levine
The “complex and nuanced” Richard Levine, who now calls himself “Rachel,” dodged some very good questions from Senator Rand Paul. Big media and their allies are now savaging the honorable senator from Kentucky. Rand Paul is to be commended for … Continue reading