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
If we meet a Muslim who is hungry we must try to feed him; if he is homeless, we must try to find him shelter; if a Muslim we know is emotionally or physically hurting, we must seek to tend to his wounds as a brother in Adam. Immigration Many of us in the West… Read More Islam and Our Grandchildren
Provocateur extraordinaire. Directly or indirectly the teacher of Tucker, Candace, Nick, Darryl… By Stephen Hand, editor, Catholic Critique. The 1566 Catechism of the Council of Trent states: “This guilt [for the death of Christ] seems more enormous in us than in the Jews, since according to the testimony of the same Apostle: ‘If they had known it,… Read More The Elephant in the Room
“May the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ, the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and of all the Saints, whatever good you do and whatever evil you endure, be for you a remedy for sin, an increase of grace, and the reward of eternal life. Go in peace”. — Traditional priestly prayer used with… Read More May the Passion of Our Lord Be For You A Remedy
Updated. Especially older persons must have wholesome hobbies, like chess and / or piano, don’t you think? I’ve been enjoying the learning immensely all winter. A keyboard 🎹 today costs very little. Then learning piano chords begins. Exercising both hemispheres of our God-created brain. For example (and it’s not as complicated as it may look),… Read More Golf is Not the Only Option.
“We ought not to be swayed by the authority of the writer, whether he be a great literary light or an insignificant person, but by the love of simple truth. We ought not to ask who is speaking, but mark what is said.” — Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, Bk. 1 Ch.5 A… Read More You quote dubious Catholics!
Love, Christians have always known, believes in both good fences as well as shared pastures. We do this by, as St. Thomas defined love, “willing the good of the other”. Peoples who do not think alike and who would not likely live well together can still share much to the benefit of all, the entire… Read More Good Fences, Shared Bounty
Updated. “Something strange is happening on the American right. In just a few years, a movement that once claimed to champion Western civilization began to entertain arguments that Winston Churchill was the real villain of World War II, that Hitler didn’t intend the Holocaust, and that Stalin wasn’t so bad after all. These ideas aren’t… Read More Victor Davis Hanson on the Fall of Tucker Carlson
AP. BBC. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has reportedly been killed in a major attack on Iran launched by Israel and the United States, throwing the future of the Islamic Republic into doubt and raising the risk of regional instability ~~ |Feb. 28, 2026 Fox News. “The United States and Israel launched attacks on… Read More Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Killed in US-Israeli Attack
“Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole includes all of the articles Carol Jackson Robinson (1911-2002) wrote for Integrity, the magazine she co-founded with Ed Willock and others in 1946. A latér collection of many of her articles was published by The Angelus Press in the book, My Life with Thomas Aquinas, in two editions (1992 & 1995). This… Read More Faith and the Ascendancy of Mammon. Carol Robinson.
By Intentional Faith on February 24, 2026 The Day of Atonement Was a Graphic Reminder That Sin Is a Life-and-Death Matter. Sin leads to spiritual death unless atoned for. Each animal sacrifice was the dreadful reminder that pointed forward. To a Cross. When we read Leviticus 16, we are confronted with imagery that feels foreign and even unsettling.… Read More When Sin Costs Blood and Grace Costs Everything
And the Deep Truths in Fritz Eichenberg’s ‘The Lord’s Supper‘. The other side of the Eucharist is friendship. It often happens that week after week, year after year, Christians sit and kneel next to practical strangers in church on Sundays. They leave Mass as they entered, nodding and saying hello to people they do not… Read More Strangers in the Pews
It’s a work of mercy I hope to revisit it. Michael Steven Bublé OBC (IPA: /buːˈbleɪ/ boo-BLAY; born September 9, 1975)[1] is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Regarded as a pop icon, he is often credited for helping to renew public interest and appreciation for traditional pop standards and the Great American Songbook. Bublé has sold over 75 million records worldwide,[2] and won numerous awards,… Read More The Christmas Concert I Somehow Missed. Michael Buble’.
While many Catholics, and even some recent Popes, have expressed confused notions about the Darwinian models of evolution, theologians like Fr. Chad Ripperger have sought to go back to the sources of Catholic Christian doctrine and philosophy, citing the sacred guardrails: the sacred Scriptures, the church fathers and Doctors, and the Catholic deductive tradition. “In… Read More The Metaphysics of Evolution
For one of the most famous historians in Britain, conquering the past is not enough. This month, alongside co-host Tabitha Syrett, Dominic Sandbrook is launching a new podcast – this time shifting his focus from history to literature. Hear the discussion Note: I may have spoken incorrectly or too soon about Google not allowing us… Read More Historian Dominic Sandbrook on the Decline of Reading
Today like never before it appears evil has let down its nets in order to tempt and haul in uncountable numbers of souls. One of the main ways the Adversary is doing this is by juxtaposing the Good next to Evil. We see this in ‘entertainment’ especially. But not only there. One need go no… Read More The Evil One has let down his nets
And Fulton J Sheen on the meaning of Palm Sunday. “If your sins be as scarlet, they shall be made as white as snow: and if they be red as crimson, they shall be white as wool” (Isaias 1:18). Homily of Benedict XVI, Palm Sunday, 2006. To understand what occurred on Palm Sunday and to… Read More “The Cross Is the Tree of Life” – Benedict XVI
Karol Wojtyla (JPII) wrote, “A non-Catholic philosopher once said to me: ‘You know, I just can’t stop myself reading and rereading and thinking over the first three chapters of Genesis.’ And indeed it seems to me that unless one does so reflect upon that fundamental Ensemble of facts and situations it becomes extremely difficult if… Read More John Paul II on the Most Decisive Confrontation —and History’s ‘Last Lap’
“Ambiguity is hard on the human nervous system“ Tin Man: Aging asks for courage in quiet ways.It asks you to: Watch your body change without its asking permission. Let go of certain strengths.Accept new limits. Keep showing up anyway. There’s nothing tepid about that. What makes it feel especially fierce is that aging is ambiguous.… Read More Tin Man: “Aging is not for the Faint Hearted”
How to pray in moral anguish. Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene shows the way, “O Truth, light of my soul, do not permit the darkness to frighten me. You have allowed me to walk in it, and now I am in obscurity. But even from the darkness, even from there, I have loved You.… Read More Do not permit the darkness to frighten me.
By Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. | ” … dictators are not the creators of the world’s evil; they are its creatures; they are only boils on the surface of the world’s skin; they come to the surface because there is bad blood beneath. It will do no good to puncture the boils, if we leave… Read More The Wars and the Revolution
Note: Citing what I regard as a significant insight from an important author clearly does not imply an unconditional endorsement of the author’s entire philosophy, theology or worldview. SH ~~ — Excerpt from Mariology by Michael Schmaus in The Concise Sacramentum Mundi edited by theologian Karl Rahner. Michael Schmaus (17 July 1897 – 8 December 1993)… Read More Christology and Mariology. Karl Rahner.
Mark and Louise Zwick, Houston Catholic Worker, Vol. XX, No. 3, May-June 2000, excerpt. “You ape, you assent to get the better of me. Hold your tongue… If there is no God, then I am God!” – — Fyodor Doestoevsky, The Demons “…It was Dostoevsky among the Russian novelists who struck the deepest chord with Dorothy during her… Read More Dostoevsky and Dorothy Day
5/14/25/ I don’t know what it is like where you live, but here where I live in, yes, liberal Massachusetts, most immigrants I see on a daily basis appear to be very good and hard working persons. I’ve worked with some myself in the last couple of years taking care of very elderly clients with… Read More Deport Criminals Not Working Refugees Seeking a Way Out of Poverty
Introduction to Theology. |By Carl F.H. Henry. SPEAK OF AN INTRODUCTION to God, or to the science of God, and some people are sure to look for the nearest exit. An introduction to sex techniques—now there’s a best seller! Or a manual (not on avoiding the rise and fall of the American empire but) on… Read More Carl F.H. Henry on The Matter of Belief Today
Modern or post-modern man (i.e., the human person, m/f) is characterized by an attachment to ambiguity and relativity. Truth, the very notion of it, is suspect in our time. As a human being, I am obliged to truly encounter my world, my times. It has engaged me. Nearly 73 years old. I have tried to… Read More The Light and Life of Being
Salvation History and the “Shocking Alternative” “Sanctify them through the truth. Your word is truth” — John 17:17 “Let God be true and every man a liar”–Romans 3:4 Adam and Christ 12 Therefore as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men… Read More Romans 5
The story is told of a man who fell into a cave filled with Pit Vipers, and, upon clawing his way up the rocks and out, left his pantheism behind. “Pit vipers are dangerous because they are venomous snakes that can deliver a harmful bite, potentially causing severe pain, swelling, and other serious symptoms. Prompt… Read More Pit Vipers
…who kindly blesses each one of us with the Sign of the Cross + from the sidewalk when we come out of Church. Or when we pass on the street. O blessed Sign! Once when I needed to Confess my sins only to find it was one of those rare days when the church was… Read More I know a priest
Apostasy is cruel. Not only does it walk “the broad way which leads to eternal destruction” (Matthew 7:13), but increasingly, in an age of bewilderment and despair, it leads straightway to temporal destruction as well, whether from AIDS, Fentanyl, euthanasia, or death by one’s own hand. Apostasy is cruel because, as St. Paul says, when… Read More Of UFOs, Apostasy, and Death
“Under President Trump, the United States will once again take on the task of renewal and restoration… And while we are prepared, if necessary, to do this alone, it is our preference, and it is our hope to do this together with you, our friends here in Europe,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio as… Read More Secretary Mark Rubio in Munich
Roberto de Mattei. “In the Gospels, Jesus makes use of many metaphors to describe the Church He founded. One of the most fitting is the image of the boat threatened by the tempest (Matt. 8:23–27; Mark 4:35–41; Luke 8:22–25). This image was often used by the Church Fathers and saints, who spoke of the Church… Read More The “true reform” that the Church needed in the 20th century
Me to ChatGpt: “Good morning. And I hope your buzzers, widgets and bells are greased and working fine today. Q: Did Beethoven have a concept or themes in mind when he composed his 5th Symphony?” Good morning! All symphonic gears are well-oiled and humming in C minor today. Ludwig van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5… Read More With ChatGpt Re: Beethoven and the Fifth
Biblical Interpretation in Crisis. On the Question of the Foundations: and Approaches of Exegesis Today by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1988 (later Pope Benedict XVI) In Wladimir Solowjew’s History of the Antichrist, the eschatological enemy of the Redeemer recommended himself to believers, among other things, by the fact that he had earned his doctorate in theology… Read More Biblical Interpretation in Crisis — Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1988
“It is the truth which is assailed in any age which tests our fidelity. It is to confess we are called, not merely to profess. If I profess, with the loudest voice and the clearest exposition, every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are… Read More Confessing the Faith
💙✨ ✨💙 🙏 Did you know that in a humble grotto the Virgin Mary offered comfort and healing to millions of hearts? Our Lady of Lourdes appeared in 1858 to Saint Bernadette Soubirous, a simple young girl, in the grotto of Lourdes. Since then, this place has become a living sign of hope for the… Read More Our Lady of Lourdes: The Apparition That Brought Hope to the Sick
And a response. It Ain’t Broke, But Let’s Fix It Anyhow June 2004 We picked up a Catholic magazine, and on the cover was one big headline, and it was a striking one: “Was Vatican II a Mistake?” In the background to the headline were a litany of post-Vatican II disasters: “practicing homosexuals in the… Read More The New Oxford Review Debate on Whether Vatican II Was Necessary
In light of our personal failings, some of us may not be sure if we have earnestly “worked out our salvation with fear and trembling,” or whether we are more worthy of spiritual chastisements. But in our deepest selves we can know whose side we are on vis a vis the arrogant values of this world.… Read More He Dared to Combine Hope and Misery
The events of 1968 had a strong bearing on his shift to a more conservative outlook. Excerpted from “POPE BENEDICT XVI: A Biography of Joseph Ratzinger.” (c) 2000 by John L. Allen, Jr.The Continuum. Joseph Ratzinger arrived at Tübingen [University] in 1966, still enthusiastic about the promise of Vatican II and ready to take his… Read More How the ’60s Changed Ratzinger
By Mark Brumley, Catholic World Report. June 2020 Recently, the Second Vatican Council’s legitimacy and value have again been challenged [again]. Some observers behave as if Benedict XVI saw Vatican II as a problem and proposed a “hermeneutic of continuity” to overcome the problem. Some people who act this way think Benedict XVI’s approach has… Read More Benedict XVI, VII, and the “hermeneutic of reform”
“God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we – we still have to vanquish his shadow, too. — Frederich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, 109. The Forerunners: 2015: For the Neo-modernist or Progressivist Catholic today, the traditional understanding… Read More Progressivist Theology. What it is.
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