This Ad Rem is a sneak-preview of one of my two talks at the upcoming Saint Benedict Center Conference. I look forward to seeing many of my readers there! In the battle against COVID-19 hysteria, many wise critics have called … Continue reading
Category: Spiritual Life
What Nobody Can Take from You
In the midst of the global psyop that is currently weaponizing people’s fear, anger, hatred, and other disordered passions, there is much that has been lost: money, property, education, peace, sanity, stability, even, in many places, physical access to Holy … Continue reading
Turning Forgiveness Outside Out
Whether purposely or not, we mortals have the nasty habit of introducing the mud of error into the pristine springs of truth and the stain of evil onto the luminous landscape of goodness. This tendency is often there to be … Continue reading
Resist Fear Mongering Propaganda
This Sunday’s Epistle reading concluded with the following verse and a half: “And be not afraid of their fear, and be not troubled. But sanctify the Lord Christ in your hearts” (I Pet. 3:14-15a). The words that I have emboldened … Continue reading
Concerning COVID-19: Mad as Hell, Peaceful as Heaven
There is something very revealing about the COVID-19 crisis. This Sino-American bioweapon, apparently not a particularly bad one as bioweapons go, has shown us the depth of the rot in the Church and the State, and not just here in … Continue reading
Whom the Gods Would Destroy They First Make Mad
There is one thing about the future that can be predicted with absolute certainty. It is that everybody reading these lines will one day die, as will their author, and I rather sooner than most of you because I am … Continue reading
I Will Not Remember Their Sins
It is written (Ezechiel 18:22): “I will not remember” any more “all his iniquities that he hath done.” Saint Thomas in the third part of his Summa Theologica, Q. 86, art. 1 uses this quote from Ezechiel in his Sed … Continue reading
A Spiritual Workaround: Meditating on the Texts of the Traditional Mass
Over at One Peter Five, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski has authored an article that may be read in tandem with what I just published on the crisis of no public Mass: Your Local Mass Canceled? Try Meditating on the Texts of the … Continue reading
Crisis Response? Time to Fortify the Domestic Church and the Catholic Community!
Whether or not one thinks that the episcopal decision in now most of the country (and elsewhere) to suspend public Masses is a wise one or not, we are now virtually all stuck with the new status quo. I have … Continue reading
A Beautiful Prayer from the Maronite Divine Liturgy to Transform Evil into Good
As a result of Saint Benedict Center’s present situation, we Brothers and Sisters have been compelled to travel a bit to find reverent Masses. When a Traditional Latin Mass is not available, we find ourselves at an Eastern Rite. This … Continue reading
The Sameness and Difference of Saint Thérèse
During the last fortnight, when I should have been thinking about what to put in this Ad Rem, I became bogged down in some academic and administrative matters that zapped my writing time. (Exam week and grading papers among these! … Continue reading
You Cannot Rightly Love without Logos
We were made for love, and made by Love, for “God is charity” (1 Jn. 4:8), and “he made us, and not we ourselves” (Ps. 99:3). To love is in our nature as beings possessed of bodies with their passions … Continue reading
Is Jesus our ‘Friend’?
One of the more rewarding aspects of being a high-school religion teacher is to be the recipient of good questions, questions that show that the student thinks and cares about the important subject matter he is studying. Some months back, … Continue reading
The Primacy of the Intellect and the Curse of Religious Sentimentalism
For decades, there has been an invasion of anti-Logos irrationalism into the Church. Sometimes this irrationalism takes the form of sentimentalism (see Brother Francis’ article, Sentimental Theology), at other times it is existentialism (“existence precedes essence”), or a host of … Continue reading
Fighting Rage
A few months ago, in response to an article of mine on the Habsburgs, I faced what German-speakers have dubbed an “Online-Lynchmobb,” courtesy of Twitter. The puerile nature of the attacks drove me through the roof! Difference of opinion is … Continue reading
