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
Category: Politics and Society
Civil Unrest Means It’s ‘Hate Map’ Time for Lazy Journalists
The violence in Charlottesville, VA, last Saturday, along with similar episodes of civil unrest caused by provocateurs of the alt-left and alt-right, has brought attention to the growth of “hate” in the U.S. For lazy journalists of the mainstream media, who want … Continue reading
Mayhem in Charlottesville: Taking Sides
What are we to think of the distressing events of Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia? My first impression is that they are part of our nation’s continued descent into violent mayhem. I also sense that the affair is being managed by … Continue reading
Deconquista
November before last I wrote an article for the SBC website marking the fortieth anniversary of the death of Francisco Franco and comparing Spain when he governed the country to Spain now that it is no longer Catholic, no more … 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
A Victory for Religious Freedom in the Bay State
A Catholic shrine in Massachusetts has prevailed over a municipal government in a state Supreme Court case about the religious exemption to local property taxes. As the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts reported last April, the Board of Assessors of … Continue reading
Out of the Ashes: a Book Review
A Catholic Blueprint for Change – Review of Out of the Ashes: Rebuilding American Culture by Dr. Anthony Esolen. Regnery Publishing, 2017 Within the past few weeks, I have had three encounters with Dr. Anthony Esolen. The first was Reconquest … Continue reading
Transhumanism
Having fouled Earth with the works of their modern substitute for religion, science and technology, liberals imagine they can build a perfect world in outer space by means of science and technology that are now more “advanced” than they were … Continue reading
Doyle: Boston’s Marty Walsh Honors Mass Murderer
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today denounced Boston Mayor Marty Walsh for renaming the corner of Harrison Avenue and Worcester Square in the city’s South End as Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin Square. Edelin, the infamous abortionist, was convicted in … Continue reading
The Five Wounds and Five Joys of the Modern Church
First he was found faultless in his five senses, and then failed never the knight in his five fingers, and all his trust in the field was in the five wounds that Christ caught on the cross, as the creed … Continue reading
Bernie Sanders Applies Religious Litmus Test on Nominee
With a hat tip to the Mike Church Show Fan Page, we bring you this YouTube video showing Bernie Sanders grilling an Evangelical Christian, Russell Vought, on his religious views during a hearing regarding the gentleman’s nomination as Deputy Director of the Office of … Continue reading
Feminism’s Goal
It was obvious to all with eyes to see that when feminism arose as a social and political force in the 1960s it was only tangentially about equal pay for equal work or anything like that. Of course seeking equality … Continue reading
Whittaker Chambers and Oedipus at Colonus
Not long before he was to die on 9 July 1961, at sixty years of age, Whittaker Chambers unknowingly wrote what was to be his final letter to his friend William F. Buckley. Dated 9 April 1961, this letter of … Continue reading