“The simplest truth about man is that he is a very strange being; almost in the sense of being a stranger on the earth. In all sobriety, he has much more of the external appearance of one bringing alien habits from another land than of a mere growth of this one. He cannot sleep in… Read More G. K. Chesterton on Man
Updated. “On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” 26 “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” 27 He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all… Read More Missionary, Self-Conversion Time
By Fr. Gabriel of St Mary Magalene, 1953 Grant, O Lord, that by Your grace I may persevere unto the end. 1. To become a saint, it is not enough to be courageous and patient and to practice the other virtues for a few days or a few months, or even for a few years.… Read More Perseverance
The Imitation of Christ, and the Contempt of All the Vanities of the World. Ch. 1. HE that followeth me, walketh not in dark-saith our Lord. Jn 8:12. These are the words of Christ, by which we are admonished, that we must imitate his life and manners, if we would be truly enlightened, and delivered… Read More The doctrine of Christ surpasses all the doctrines of the saints
Sam Kean examines the dark, restless side of the father of the atomic bomb in The Real Tragedy of Robert Oppenheimer In March 1926, four students from Cambridge University took a vacation in Corsica, an island off France. For ten days, they biked around and hiked the craggy hills and stuffed themselves with seafood in… Read More The Deranged Robert Oppenheimer
*|* What’s next for Syria’s Christians After Assad’s Fall? (Opinion) Previous. Hamas and Hezbollah. How They Were Formed and Which Nations Support the Terror Groups. Netanyahu speaks on Israel’s view of its own history. | Also Vantage with Palki Sharma 10/7/23 Hamas launched large-scale attacks into Israel. What is Hamas, the terror organisation that governs… Read More Hamas, Hezbollah and Israel
Divine Intimacy by Father Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. It Is Worth It’s Weight in Spiritual Gold. It is not ordinary. It does not allow us to evade the Cross, yet it does not leave us discouraged and without abundant spiritual comfort. On every page we are lifted up and shown the way to… Read More An Incomparable Book for Our Time. Divine Intimacy.
+ Kissinger’s final warning and the Antichristic: “Prepare now for ‘superhuman’ people to control Earth…Kissinger’s co-authors, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and longtime Microsoft senior executive Craig Mundie’s bracing message, warning that AI tools have already started outpacing human capabilities so people might need to consider biologically engineering themselves to ensure they are not rendered… Read More Closer to Midnight? The Signs and Wonders of Elon Musk.
“In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”—Jn.16:33. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Mary as “blessed among women”. Pope John Paul II 1. The liturgy today commemorates theNativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.This feast, very important to popular piety, leads us to admire in Mary the… Read More Praying for the Children
“A government that can censor its critics has license for every atrocity” “What most alarms me isn’t how the Democratic Party conducts its internal affairs, or runs it candidates. What alarms me is the resort to censorship and media control, and the weaponization of the federal agencies. When a U.S. President colludes with or outright… Read More RFK Jr. On Kamala Harris, Warns of “Totalitarianism”
William F. Buckley Jr. called out a major aspect of the spiritual struggle in our time, increasingly atheistic education, 1951: “I had always been taught, and experience had fortified the teachings, that an active faith in God and a rigid adherence to Christian principles are the most powerful influences toward the good life… A number of… Read More The Struggle of Our Time
NYT. / 9.8.24. “Donald Trump is stuck. He is a brutally transactional politician who represents a coalition of ideologues. His instinct is to promise the moon, and he’ll say anything to get a vote — or just to get out of a room. He also knows, however, that he has no choice but to dance… Read More New York Times Gloats Over Trump’s “Abortion Headache”
When Scripture’s creation-based, anthropocentric revelation is rejected, and an evolutionary animal continuum (from amoeba to man) is presupposed as the only reality, then human beings begin taking their cues for behavior from the animal-insect world. This rationalization has reached tragically absurd levels today as witness postmodernist writer Steven Shaviro’s longing for the sexual autonomy of… Read More From Creation and Family to the Petri Dish
We who are alive today have lived in extraordinary times. Never in history were so many ordinary people lured off the narrow way by so many lying signs, technological wonders and temptations. Few of us have walked through it unwounded. There is little romanticism in not being a hero. Many of us men and women… Read More Our Saving Wounds
Too, parents who refuse children gender change face seven years in jail in Scotland. New World Order anti-values triggering… This on top of The Telegraph report, February 2024: Parents who refuse to allow their children to change gender would face up to seven years in jail under SNP plans to ban “conversion therapy”. Proposals published… Read More 7 Years in Jail For Misgendering
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
John Reith, the first ever Director General of the BBC, talks to Malcolm Muggeridge about his time at the corporation. He explains the thinking behind his decision to instruct BBC broadcasters to speak in the rather artificial manner – which became known as the ‘BBC accent’ – as opposed to their own local dialects. Lord… Read More John Reith to Malcolm Muggeridge on the BBC’s Effects on the Language
Updated. Andrew Doran and Mary Eberstadt | First Things | 9.5.24 Candace Owens, a Catholic convert and former pundit at the Daily Wire, has come under fire for anti-Semitic rhetoric, including promoting the “blood libel” charge and linking Judaism to pedophilia. She is not alone among Jew-bashers with large online followings trying to claim the label of “Catholic right” these days (notorious anti-Semite Nick Fuentes and… Read More Candace Owens Doesn’t Speak for Catholics
By Norman Podhoretz. Sex, drugs, America, the middle class, and “poetry power”: reflections on a literary entanglement of 50 years’ duration. by Norman Podhoretz, 1997. “Allen Ginsberg, Master Poet of Beat Generation, Dies at 70,” proclaimed the headline on the front page of the New York Times for April 6, 1997. Reading it, I was moved more deeply… Read More My War With Allen Ginsberg
Or, dreams come true… In No Speed Limit, author and cultural analyst Steven Shaviro writes, “In his science fiction novel Pop Apocalypse, Lee Konstantinou imagines the existence of a “Creative Destruction” school of Marxist-Leninist thought. The adherents of this school “interpret Marx’s writings as literal predictions of the future, so they consider it their mission… Read More The Creative Destruction school of Marxist-Leninist thought.
Before there was Gloria Steinem or Michel Foucault, there was Dada. And it was deadly serious. Kickoff, Demolition time. “Dada thrives on contradictions. It is creative and destructive. Dada denounces the world and wishes to save it.” So says one narrator of journalist-filmmaker Mick Gold’s Europe After the Rain, a 1978 Arts Council of Great Britain documentary… Read More 1914. Europe After the Rain.
Is A Personal God Improbable? Or is it we who are improbable?Atheism has traditionally scoffed at belief in a God who is Personal or SupraPersonal. I’ve always found their position to be a counterintuitive curiosity. One of the reasons why is that I find myself, a personal being, to exist. I am here. You are… Read More I Am Therefore I Think
Quintero noted that ’51 priests have been exiled without trial, violating their rights to residency and freedom of movement.’ National Catholic Register. Two new reports are out detailing human rights violations in Nicaragua, one focusing on religious freedom and the other citing 870 attacks specifically targeting the Catholic Church. On Aug. 13, the human rights… Read More 870 Attacks Against the Catholic Church Reported in Nicaragua Since 2018
I wish all those responsible would just go back to the Church, confess, and get their sins forgiven by Christ. Then we can all do quiet penance to make the world better, begin anew, knowing that God is more desirous to forgive us all than we ourselves could ever conceive. Cf. Matthew 12:31: “And so I… Read More Iraq and Sleepless nights
Rory Stewart is everything that’s gone wrong with the Tories — Spiked online Note: because Stewart is an interesting bundle of a political person, expect more about him here highlighting both his weaknesses and even a few strengths. SH The Conservatives’ attempts to appease the ‘sensible’, ‘centrist’ types have brought the party to ruin. GARETH… Read More “Rory Stewart is a ludicrous little man”. Let’s pray he recovers
“THEY’ (you know who) have burnt done another Catholic Church in northern France. Who would hate Jesus enough to burn down a thousand churches a year ?” And CNA 2021. Why France is losing one religious building every two weeks. 40 churches have burned since 2023 while Pope Francis has not stopped posing and laughing… Read More Another Catholic Church Burns in Northern France. Then there is Canada.
… and the state of the Church.. unfinished controversy? | New Oxford Review 2001. Cardinal Walter Kasper famously contested Cardinal Ratzinger’s defense of the “ontological primacy of the universal church” over the local churches. By Philip Blosser | April 2002Philip Blosser, Professor of Philosophy at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, North Carolina. “When Cardinals clash in… Read More Revisiting The Kasper-Ratzinger debate
Moral Theology: A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities Authors: John A. McHugh, Charles J. Callan Although the signs of scrupulosity are easily recognizable, the causes are not clearly defined, and authors are not entirely agreed in this matter. A listing of probable causes would include internal causes: (a)… Read More Causes of a scrupulous Conscience
Fr. Joel S. Panzer, The Catholic Answer and EWTN, 1996 When did the Catholic Church condemn slavery? According to some notable figures, the Church did not finally condemn slavery until recently. Judge John T. Noonan stated that it was not until 1890 that the Church condemned the institution of slavery, lagging behind laws enacted to… Read More The Popes and Slavery: Setting the Record Straight
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