Malcolm Muggeridge. “The coming of Jesus into the world is the most stupendous event in human history. . . . As it is, belonging to a civilization which began with the birth of Jesus some two thousand years ago, and reaching the conclusion—to me inescapable—that whatever is truly admirable in the achievements of the succeeding… Read More Fiat Lux. Into History Comes the Light
+ Published: 21 June 2023 | The Catholic Herald “When he was 20, J.C. made a life-changing move to Milan, Italy. There he converted to Roman Catholicism, leaving behind his staunchly Lutheran upbringing.” Johann Sebastian Bach is undoubtedly one of the most famous composers in history. His contributions to Lutheran music have made the family… Read More Johann Christian Bach: The Catholic Bach
“The natural man does not understand the gifts of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.” — 1 Corinthians 2:14. Tim Staples, a Catholic writer, says, “…from a philosophical perspective, the soul is pure spirit and is the form of… Read More The Natural Man Does Not Understand
One body, one Spirit, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one Father of us all” — Eph. 4: 4-6 Every ecclesial community brings its tradition(s) to bear in the exegesis and understanding of Scripture. Even independent Protestant Fundamentalist pastors and larger Protestant denominations(1) employ their traditions [i.e., their received community understanding of texts] as a… Read More Catholicism, Tradition and Protestantism
“Beyond common issues like nausea and vomiting, serious side effects can include severe and prolonged vomiting leading to dehydration and acute kidney injury. There’s also a risk of pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), gallbladder problems (like gallstones), and a condition called gastroparesis where your stomach empties very slowly. In rare cases, there have been reports… Read More The Alarming Truth: Are Weight Loss Drugs Worth the Risk?
Stopped into a long-standing Catholic bookstore today and it appeared that most of the old spiritual robbers had been driven out of the temple. Magnifica Humanitas certainly is worth studying carefully, whatever it’s directions. + Then out for breakfast with the bride 🚗
“There are great musicians. And then there are great teachers. Few people could reveal the beauty and brilliance of music like Leonard Bernstein. In this unforgettable explanation, he explores what makes Beethoven’s genius so timeless… showing that behind every masterpiece lies an extraordinary idea.”
Victor Gaetan is senior international correspondent for the National Catholic Register 8/21. The closer we look at decisions to deploy a second atomic weapon against Japan on August 9, [1945…] the more morally audacious the tactic appears. Step outside the American explanatory cloud—we bombed military installations to force unconditional imperial surrender—defining public understanding to see:… Read More Nagasaki Was A Strike Against Japan And The Catholic Church
The New “Luddites” on College Campuses. “In this video, I discuss the New Luddites we’re seeing on college campuses. I try to place this movement in conversation with philosophers throughout history who have been critical of technology. Topics include: the history of the Luddites, Plato on writing in the Phaedrus, Heidegger’s ‘The Question Concerning Technology’,… Read More The Revolt Against Technological Excess.
Updated. Dr. Larry Chapp seems to express a kind of anxiety or apprehension in this video discussion. The anxiety revolves around the obvious problem of the traditional magisterium as he comes “out of the closet” and reveals himself to be an eschatological “universalist” wherein, in the end, we can all hope that Scripture and Tradition… Read More A Note on Hell
is similar to why the same Leftists and Communists love the hazy Future. They can read anything into what hasn’t happened! And, like Barack Obama, they can still buy prime real estate and pitch their tents in the Eye of the Always Future cataclysm. SH
Even now! Even Now the MI6 Masonic Spinmeisters (Campbell and Stewart) spin facts like a whirling top in the interests of keeping hold of Europe and the UK. These two in particular have minus-Zero credibility. It is time for the UK and EU to repudiate their vicious ideological blinders for good and forever, and to… Read More The Spinmeisters
Uncover the suppressed truths of frontier history before the corporations began gaslighting homemakers, and master real-world food and cooking which science today has been rapidly acknowledging.
Site Summation – updated – Chat Gpt Catholic Critique presents itself as “Christian World View & Analysis,” edited by Stephen Hand. Its stated purpose is not formal teaching but the sharing of opinions, interpretive principles, excerpts, reflections, and outside resources judged helpful in spiritually challenging times. The site repeatedly frames itself as Catholic, Christ-centered, culturally… Read More Catholic Critique — Alphabetical & Topic Index
Joseph Pearce writes, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and I go back a long way. I first met him in the newspapers and on the TV news when I was a child, in the early seventies. Solzhenitsyn was so famous in those days that his face was instantly recognized; no caption was needed under his photograph. He had… Read More Possibly this generation’s greatest Catholic Writer* and his friendship with Solzhenitsyn
…and 25 forgotten diner sandwiches no longer wolfed down! “Cape Cod was never meant to be permanent. A glacial sandbar left behind by the Ice Age, it was rejected by the Pilgrims in 1620 as too barren to settle and stripped of its forests by the colonists who came after them. For two centuries, whaling,… Read More Why Fewer and Fewer People Visit Cape Cod Today
“The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society.” “The Chinese Revolution and the Chinese Communist Party” (December 1939), Selected Works, Vol. II, pp.… Read More Socialism, Communism
Too many of the older Clerics, resting on their truly beautiful liturgical laurels, acted like brutal disciplinarians outside of Mass, especially in early and secondary school classrooms. But too many of today’s clerics have done the truly unthinkable thing: they have turned the greatest and most magnificent liturgical love story into a barren bore, making… Read More Old Clerics, New Clerics
All the roses in the garden, they bow and ask her pardon… The phrase “Queen of all Argyll” refers to a beautiful woman from the Argyll region of Scotland, celebrated in a song by the band Silly Wizard. The song highlights her charm and grace, suggesting that she surpasses all others in beauty. Wikipedia / Bucknell… Read More …if you could’ve seen her there! boys if you had just been there! …
…and Ambiguity in Doctrine. The Kazakh auxiliary bishop launched the publication of Credo — Compendium of the Catholic Faith Oct. 26 in Rome. Edward Pentin, VATICAN CITY — A new compendium of the Catholic faith has been published that aims to provide clear answers to many of contemporary problems as well as counter the ambiguity… Read More Bishop Athanasius Schneider Says New Compendium Aims to ‘Expel the Darkness’ of Relativism
John Michael Talbot (born May 8, 1954) is an American Catholic musician, author, television presenter and founder of a monastic community known as the Brothers and Sisters of Charity Talbot was born into a Methodist family with a musical background in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and started learning to play the guitar at an early age. At age 15, he dropped out of… Read More The Long Journey Into Day of John Michael Talbot
“Saint Paul teaches in Romans 9–11 that Israel remains beloved because of the patriarchs and that God’s promises are not forgotten. The mystery of Israel is not a story of abandonment, but a story awaiting fulfillment in Christ. The Antichrist, according to Christian tradition, is not merely a temptation for one people or nation. He… Read More Israel and the Antichrist
SOURCE: James Finn Cotter. “Pagels’s Paradise Lost,” in The Hudson Review, Vol. XLII, No. 1, Spring, 1989, pp. 165-70. In the epilogue of her … book [Adam, Eve, and the Serpent], Elaine Pagels tells us that, dissatisfied with contemporary Christianity, she turned to the earliest Christians for answers. She assumed that in that era, when the movement was… Read More Elaine Pagels’s Paradise Lost
Track #2 from from Silly Wizard’s sixth and final studio album, “A Glint of Silver” (1986), now sadly out of print. An original jig by Phil Cunningham, coupled with an old Jacobite rallying song. Wha’ll be King but Charlie?” is a traditional Scottish song about Bonnie Prince Charlie, the leader of the 1745 Jacobite Rising,… Read More Who’ll be King but Charlie?
The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond” (or “Loch Lomond“) is a traditional Scottish folk song (Roud No. 9598).[1][2] Its origins are thought to date to the Jacobite rising of 1745. Born in Rome to the exiled Stuart court, he spent much of his early and later life in Italy. In 1744, he travelled to France to take part in a… Read More On the Beautiful Banks O’ Loch Lomand
Planxty. Planxty[1] were an Irish folk music band formed in January 1972,[1]: 99–100 consisting initially of Christy Moore (vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, guitars, bodhrán, keyboards), and Liam O’Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle). They transformed and popularized Irish folk music, touring and recording to great acclaim. Planxty
The exhumation of Anne Boleyn and restoration of the Chapel of St. Peter Ad Vincula In 1848, a historian by the name of Lord Thomas Macaulay visited the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the grounds of The Tower of London. He recorded his thoughts on the place in the first edition of his… Read More The Opening of Anne Boelyn’s Coffin
” …but she has come down to condemn that wild ocean for the murderous loss of her man.” “The Fisherman’s Song” by Silly Wizard reflects themes of loss and longing, particularly the emotional struggles faced by a fisherman and his wife. The song conveys a sense of melancholy and the hardships of life at sea,… Read More Silly Wizard. The Fisherman’s Song (Tragedy).
By Father Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene, O.C.D. Even without the presence of other causes, it is possible to pass from a state of sensible spiritual fervor to one of absolute aridity. This happens by the direct work of God which makes it impossible for the soul to pray with the help of the mind… Read More Aridity and Spiritual Progress
“The Russian intelligentsia produced a faith based upon a strange syllogism: ‘Man is descended from the apes, therefore we must love one another.’” — Vladimir Solovyev. On Lenin’s desk in the Kremlin there stood, for most of the years he worked there, a strange bronze statue of an ape gazing with an expression of profound… Read More Lenin, the Ape and the Skull
By Carlo Carretto, 1910 – 1988 (*). Carlo Carretto PFE was an Italian Catholic and member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel. See other links at this website. His books can be purchased at Amazon.com. ~~~ “Charles de Foucauld said one day: “If the contemplative life were possible only behind monastic walls or in the silence… Read More Contemplation in the Streets
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,and has lifted up the lowly.He has filled the hungry with good things,and the rich he has sent away empty.He has come to the help of his servant Israelfor he has remembered his promise of mercy,the promise he made to our fathers,to Abraham and his children forever.… Read More Jesus and the Poor
“I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, 2 with all lowliness and meekness, with patience, forbearing one another in love, 3 eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. 4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you… Read More St. Paul Prisoner of Love
The value of sufferings in Christ By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. O Jesus Crucified, teach me the science of the Cross. 1. The Passion of Jesus teaches us in a concrete way that in the Christian life we must be able to accept suffering for the love of God. This is a… Read More Personal knowledge of the Cross
By the grace of God somehow, for the past 30 years we have lived in the midst of lush green woodland(1). The beauty which surrounds us, despite the inevitable effects of slow but sure urban sprawl, uplifts the spirit. We also regularly make incursions into Lowell so as not to lose touch with the other… Read More More to Creation / Nature
Excerpt from the book The Desecration of Man by Carl E. Trueman …”Setting aside any moral concerns, it is surely a strange world where movies from the 1940s now come with trigger warnings because they contain scenes where people smoke cigarettes, presumably because of the health risks, and yet there is a window in a… Read More The Desecration of Man
“In the climate of the Second Vatican Council, of ecumenism, of openness, the word “heretic” has become not only unpopular but unspeakable—except, of course, among integralists, who often construct their own identity on accusations of heresy directed at others. But has the concept of heresy become completely irrelevant? Has our awareness of the duty of… Read More Thomas Merton on Heresy and Self-Contradiction
How we came to where we are today. By Dinesh D’Souza “The typical socialist today is not a union guy who wants higher wages; it’s a transsexual eco-feminist who marches in Antifa and Black Lives Matter rallies and throws cement blocks at her political opponents. We see it in the riots and looting sweeping the country… Read More The Philosopher of Antifa
… is well over a Hundred Years Old. Rerum Novarum was Radical then. It is Radical today. Discover why this 130-year-old document remains startlingly relevant to contemporary economic theory and thought.. The only real and viable economic “centrism” between Capitalism and Socialism / Communism has always and only been found in Catholic Social Teaching. Quasi-Marxists have… Read More Forget the Marxist Counterfeits, The Only Real and Viable Economic Centrist Position…
By Christopher Rufo. | America’s Cultural Revolution The Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin raised his glass to a group of artists assembled at the home of famed writer Maxim Gorky in 1932. “The ‘production’ of souls is more important than the production of tanks,” he said, explaining that the communists desired not only to remake the… Read More Reengineering the Human Soul
Fr. Phillip Stark, today in his 90s and frail, has been a wonderful priest to everyone who attends his Mass at St. Anne’s chapel in Still River. He still says Mass almost daily; he was a Jesuit and secretary to Thomas Merton whom he admires to this day, whatever Merton’s theological complexities. He was ordained… Read More No Greater Love
