Saint Alphonsus Liguori We may feign deep concern for the ones we secretly detest, we may even ask others for prayers for him or her (which request can serve as a particularly odious disguise for vicious gossip), but inwardly this hatred destroys our spiritual life. It is a grave danger. St. Vincent de Paul calls these… Read More Gossip, Whisperers & Detraction: “Triple Murder”
America… “not in any sense Christian” “….she licensed every form of lust with laws to cleanse the stain of scandal she has spread.” — Dante, The Inferno, canto V, 57. Every four years, truths in America can change from one thing to another, even as the center – left’s quest to be the global hegemon… Read More America and Seductive False ‘Liberty’.
Another conversation with Tin Man. Me: I do hope you’ve had 🛢️🛢️ 🛢️ of fun today answering our stupid questions. But speaking of stupid, I make haste to ask an important question. Is it true as I have read that the reason we older men tend to get a, ahem!, larger girth is that in… Read More Of Wintry Blubber and Spontaneous Combustion
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
Note: The following has a context which I am not at liberty to tell. Nevertheless I believe it is important. Catholic Love, Teaching and Authority. Updated below. I don’t see how some Christians can consider themselves to be great masters, or even respectable, if they cannot show even the most simple friendliness and courtesy to… Read More Friendliness is the peak, the kindergarten of our souls.
Bad and evil ideas have been far more virulent in history than silver, gold, or geopolitical schemes. Our modern errors arose out of the weeds of bad Christian soil, fueled by concupiscence and backed by diverse and mighty powers. King Henry VIII’s ecclesial revolution in England, born in lust and ending in the vast dissolution of the… Read More Philosophers of the New Light
To Heck With the Irish.By Laura Wood.The Thinking Housewife. | ON St. Patrick’s Day, when the Irish wear green hats, drink cups of green beer and drown the memory of a holy saint in hedonism and nauseating sentimentality, it’s a good time to bear in mind that the Irish fully deserve the chastisement they are currently… Read More “God Has Every Reason to Chastise the Irish Today.”
Hated old Dublin. Another Myth About the Irish Church: Cruel Nuns and Dead Babies. And: Anti-Catholicism Today. The Tuam Dead Babies Story. Another Myth About Ireland. Brendan O’Neill,EditorSpiked Online For proof of the maxim that ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’, look no further than the Tuam… Read More Dead Babies— and Planned Parenthood?
…whose beating heart in the hypostatic union gave her Son the precious Blood shed for our sins. Behold the mystery! The Precious Blood of Jesus, shed for our sins, was derived from and nourished by the little heart beating in the breast of a humble young virgin. Is it any wonder that the prophecy of Our… Read More The Glory Given to Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Updated.
A visual manifesto here for a new cultural epoch.The original 1967 album captured the 1960s fusion of art, music, Eastern mysticism, and countercultural rebellion — a “summer of love” humanism that celebrated expanded consciousness through psychedelics, creativity, and social upheaval. Replacing the Beatles with Ray Kurzweil, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Demis Hassabis signals a… Read More Humanity’s New Grand Narrative – Beyond The Beatles.
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Forenote: Herod and Pilate became friends on the same day that Jesus was sent to Herod, as they had previously been enemies. This alliance was politically motivated, as both rulers sought to maintain their positions and avoid conflict during a tumultuous time. — Lk. 23: 12. From Judas to Richy Rich and beyond, do spiritual… Read More The Happy Immoralist: Richy Rich
Updated. Mar Mounier: The situation in Massachusetts is a raw demonstration of the moral abyss that characterizes the current spiritual degeneration that will bury the world. By eliminating the remaining restrictions on abortion after 24 weeks and replacing them with the subjective “professional judgment” of a doctor, the state—god of the liberals—has legalized the fact of… Read More Immoralist #2 Today. Maura.
….will not forsake us who, compared to so many previous generations, have so little to suffer. As the Apostle says, we have not yet been called to suffer unto death. Our laments and sufferings can appear to have more to do with our own comfort, nostalgia, preferences in beautiful liturgical style, all good but comparatively… Read More He who created the Pleiades and Orion
Jesus warned, “And a man’s enemies shall be they of his own household.” Herod and Pilate became friends on the same day that Jesus was sent to Herod, as they had previously been enemies. This alliance was politically motivated, as both rulers sought to maintain their positions and avoid conflict during a tumultuous time. —… Read More The Hard Saying: Matthew 10:36-39
Scripture prophesies the coming one day of a great deception heralding the imminent arrival of “the Lawless One” (2 Thess 2) just prior to Parousia(1). Prof. Daniel O’Connor writes, “As modern man turns away from his own Christian patrimony, the myths he turns toward are no longer found within the pages of Hesiod. They are,… Read More Signs and Lying Wonders. Only Man Bears His Image.
The mere recitation of long Creeds at Holy Mass does not bring light and life if the people do not enter into the Mystery of the Cross in holy quiet prayer. This is the ancient Tradition. Instead, today, the priests (and chosen lay readers) too often stand in the way. And as the priest’s presence… Read More When the Priest’s Personality Increases Christ’s Presence is obscured
“Angels are often depicted in art playing stringed instruments like lutes, which are part of a larger family of musical instruments known as chordophones. These instruments produce sound through the vibration of strings, and lutes specifically have a body and a neck that stretches the strings, allowing for a variety of musical expressions. instrushare.com.au / Encyclopedia… Read More Heaven Must Love Stringed Instruments
A critique of Calvinist Apologist James White of Alpha and Omega Ministries.. “…that you may know how you ought to behave yourself self in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.” — 1 Timothy 3:15 By Stephen Hand The living Word of God… Read More White Lies
John E. Fagan “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart the desire to know the truth — in a word, to know himself — so that by knowing and loving God, men and women can come… Read More John Paul II on Faith, Reason and Nihilism
It is not exactly news. Some twenty six years ago when I wrote for his paper I saw up close and personal that Michael was in fact more SSPX than attached to the genuine Catholic tradition which was too complex for him. We were expected in those days to see and attack all conservative and… Read More ‘Remnant Editor Joins Forces with SSPX
“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
John Fisher and Thomas More by Judge Robert J. Conrad “… It is worth pausing to recall the sequence of legal measures brought forth by Henry and his willing aides. The first Act of Succession in March 1534 prohibited any malicious slandering by writing, print, deed, or act of the king’s title. This act was… Read More What Is An Oath?
+ 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
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?
“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.
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
