This past January 17 was the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. For that occasion, the members of our houses here in Richmond, New Hampshire, were in Still River, Massachusetts for a … Continue reading
Category: Theology
Three Damning Paragraphs from Abbé Claude Barthe on Ecumenism
Abbé Claude Barthe is a French traditionalist priest who was ordained in 1979 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. Incardinated in the Diocese of Fréjus-Toulon in 2005 and therefore in canonical good standing, he is an accomplished author on ecclesiastical subjects and, … Continue reading
Archbishop Victor Fernández and ‘Setting Limits’ to Theology
There has been a lot of coverage in Catholic circles of recent remarks made by Archbishop Victor Fernández, the newly named but not yet appointed head of the Holy See’s doctrinal office, the DDF (previously known as the CDF, and … Continue reading
Lack of Clarity and ‘the Greatest Generation’
The YouTube conference embedded below by Father Chad Ripperger is very much worth your careful attention. Father goes a long way in explaining the reasons for what might be called “emotional thinking,” i.e., the kind of low-quality thought that many … Continue reading
Wrestling with the Fate of the Unbaptized
“One man’s trespass led to condemnation for all men” (Rom. 5:18). With these somber words, St. Paul expressed one of the truths that govern human history. On account of what St. John Henry Newman called the “aboriginal catastrophe”—namely, the Fall … Continue reading