Tradwives’ push back against critics who say their viral homemaking lifestyle is ‘alarming’

Counterrevolution? In sickness or in health, for richer or poorer… “Tradwives, a newly coined term for traditional wives, is a subculture of housewives who believe in clear gender roles, the importance of homemaking and a patriarchal marriage, according to many women who self-identify as tradwives. Tradwives are women who honor femininity, care for their husbands,… Read More Tradwives’ push back against critics who say their viral homemaking lifestyle is ‘alarming’

March 20, 2023March 20, 2023 Posted by SH

The Mystical Body of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen

Sheen explains that the Church “continues Christ, expresses Christ, develops all the virtualities, potentialities of Christ, makes it possible for Him to extend Himself beyond the space of Palestine and the space of thirty-three years to prolong his influence unto all times and to all men—in a word, it de-temporalizes and de-localizes Christ so that… Read More The Mystical Body of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen

March 3, 2023March 5, 2023 Posted by SH

Seeking deliverance from sins and doing penance — without panic

“…let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus the author and perfecter of our faith“— Hebrews 12. By St. Francis de Sales.Introduction to the Devout Life. “…Whensoever you urgently desire to be delivered from any evil, or to attain some good thing, strive above all else to keep a… Read More Seeking deliverance from sins and doing penance — without panic

March 1, 2023March 21, 2023 Posted by SH

John Paul II on The Loss of the Sense of Sin

Apostolic Exhortation onReconciliation and PenanceDec. 2, 1984 Over the course of generations, the Christian mind has gained from the Gospel as it is read in the ecclesial community a fine sensitivity and an acute perception of the seeds of death contained in sin, as well as a sensitivity and an acuteness of perception for identifying… Read More John Paul II on The Loss of the Sense of Sin

February 21, 2023February 22, 2023 Posted by SH

Saints of Flesh and Blood

“The Saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint is often a martyr; he is mistaken for a poison because he is an antidote. He will generally be found restoring the world to sanity by exaggerating whatever the world neglects, which is by no means always the same… Read More Saints of Flesh and Blood

February 21, 2023March 1, 2023 Posted by SH

Catholic Critique

Why Catholic Critique? To confess the Faith to any who wish to hear or see. “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved” (Rom. 10:9)…” “If you continue in my word, then you are my disciples…” (Jn. 8:31) This website is a small,… Read More Catholic Critique

February 3, 2023March 16, 2023 Posted by SH

Karl Rahner on the Word “God”

“The word “God” exists. Thus we return to the beginning, to the simple fact that in the universe of words with which we build our world and without which even the so-called facts do not exist for us, the word “God”, too, occurs. Even for the atheists, even for those who say: God is dead,… Read More Karl Rahner on the Word “God”

January 11, 2023January 11, 2023 Posted by SH

Into History Comes the Light

By Malcom Muggeridge. First Lux! 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… Read More Into History Comes the Light

December 24, 2022December 27, 2022 Posted by SH

On Personalism. Peter Maurin.

A stoneis not an individual.You can make little onesout of big ones. A treeis an individual.It comesfrom a germ.“Only Godcan make a tree,”says the poet. A horseis an individual.The horse is notan individualthe way the treeis an individual.It has animal life. Man is an individualand has animal lifelike the horse.Man has also reason.which the horse… Read More On Personalism. Peter Maurin.

December 10, 2022December 11, 2022 Posted by SH

Terrance Malick’s “The Tree of Life”

By Gary Potter. The subject here is a movie, one I think could be the most important made in my lifetime, at least in terms of cinema’s future. Its importance doesn’t make it a favorite nor even that I have especially enjoyed seeing it. Do we “enjoy” seeing, say, Shakespeare’s Richard III? A particular production… Read More Terrance Malick’s “The Tree of Life”

December 7, 2022December 7, 2022 Posted by SH

Can A Mother Forget?

“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.” —Isaiah 49:15-16″ All the wrong turns in the past, the… Read More Can A Mother Forget?

October 31, 2022November 1, 2022 Posted by SH

Augustine and the Nihil

The will to power and the privatio boni — St. Augustine “… the worshipers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious. Only let it remain undefeated, they say, only let it flourish and abound in resources; let it be… Read More Augustine and the Nihil

October 30, 2022October 31, 2022 Posted by SH

Thomist Josef Pieper: Christians Have Always Been Called to Endure

… in the face of difficulties The great modern Thomist Josef Pieper writes, “Fortitude … does not mean mere fearlessness. That man alone is brave who cannot be forced, through fear of transitory and lesser evils, to give up the greater and actual good, and thereby bring upon himself that which is ultimately and absolutely… Read More Thomist Josef Pieper: Christians Have Always Been Called to Endure

August 5, 2022February 16, 2023 Posted by SH

Is There Such a Thing as “Mere Christianity”?

And a Reply. By What Authority Does C.S. Lewis Pontificate? By Thomas Storck | New Oxford Review. Thomas Storck is a Contributing Editor of the New Oxford Review. The great Anglican apologist and scholar C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) championed a concept he called “mere Christianity.” Although the term itself seems to have been coined by the… Read More Is There Such a Thing as “Mere Christianity”?

July 30, 2022August 5, 2022 Posted by SH

The Christian may not despair.

“The Christian may not despair; i.e ., he may not give up hoping that God will forgive his sins, or help him in adversity. Cain despaired when he said: “My sin is too great to be forgiven” ( Gen . iv. 13 ). Saul despaired by throwing himself on his sword when hard pressed in… Read More The Christian may not despair.

June 20, 2022December 18, 2022 Posted by SH

Antichristic Uncertainties

The Antichristic has manifest itself and shadowed the Cross in every age of the Church. Our era is hardly an exception. The war on the moral and natural laws today is ominous. And, be it near or far, we may be approaching times even more difficult. Catholics and other Christians who resist evils today and… Read More Antichristic Uncertainties

June 3, 2022December 16, 2022 Posted by SH

Daily Mass at The Slipper Chapel, Walsingham

History: “In the idyllic pastoral setting of East Anglia, in the county of Norfolk, and located just over one mile from Walsingham, stands the little Slipper Chapel, a shrine dating back to the mid 14th century. Within this tiny shrine is kept the familiar Catholic statue of Our Lady of Walsingham. At this point, pilgrims… Read More Daily Mass at The Slipper Chapel, Walsingham

May 18, 2022May 29, 2022 Posted by SH

Taking Sheen Seriously

James M. Patterson, April 2020First Things Magazine C-Span: The important lecture of Thomas Reeves on America’s Bishop (including an the account of his many sufferings and persecutions). Watch it here. Fulton J. Sheen is defined in popular imagination by the persona he adopted on Life Is Worth Living, his Emmy-winning television program. During each episode, the… Read More Taking Sheen Seriously

April 30, 2022March 3, 2023 Posted by SH

The Meaning of the Cross

Venerable Fulton J. Sheen: the Meaning of the Cross of Jesus Christ. By Way of The Cross He Leads Us Through Both Light and Darkness. “Your care for me is greater than all the care I can take of myself. For he who does not cast all his care upon You stands very unsafely. If… Read More The Meaning of the Cross

April 15, 2022March 1, 2023 Posted by SH

The Value of Suffering in Christ

By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. O Jesus Crucified, teach me the science of the Cross; make me understand the value of suffering. 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… Read More The Value of Suffering in Christ

April 8, 2022April 15, 2022 Posted by SH

Vulgar Grace

Our Lord Jesus Christ gives up(1) on none. Nobody. God help us from ever holding on to any Pharisee within. Brennan Manning writes of brokenness, “My life is a witness to vulgar grace — a grace that amazes as it offends. A grace that pays the eager beaver who works all day long the same… Read More Vulgar Grace

March 20, 2022April 5, 2022 Posted by SH

St. John Paul II and the Message of Divine Mercy.

Their lives amazingly intersected. And he prayed in her convent’s chapel. Hear the story. —- Divine Mercy and the Lonely

March 9, 2022June 27, 2022 Posted by SH

Even the Wicked Are Rewarded In This Life.

In one of Saint Therese of Lisieux’s favorite books, End of the Present World and the Mysteries of the Future Life, the author, Fr. Charles Arminjon (1824-1885) writes among many important things on the parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. And he draws a most important moral Gospel lesson: “There are circumstances when even… Read More Even the Wicked Are Rewarded In This Life.

March 4, 2022March 5, 2022 Posted by SHLeave a comment

White Lies

“…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 The living Word of God dwells within, and never apart from, the Pillar and Ground of Truth, the Interpreting Church… Read More White Lies

January 27, 2022January 1, 2023 Posted by SHLeave a comment

Forgiveness. “I Will Not Remember Their Sins”

By Brian Kelly. It is written (Ezechiel 18:22): “I will not remember all his iniquities that he hath done: in his justice which he hath wrought, he shall live.” Saint Thomas in the third part of his Summa Theologica, Q. 86, art. 1 uses this quote from Ezechiel in his Sed Contra to refute the… Read More Forgiveness. “I Will Not Remember Their Sins”

January 18, 2022December 6, 2022 Posted by SHLeave a comment

New Discoveries About Jesus of Nazareth

Recent discoveries are making Jewish, secular and agnostic scholars reconsider a century’s worth of skepticism towards the New Testament accounts of Jesus. (Pinned Dec. 18, 2022) By Robert Hutchinson, via The Blaze.com. The entrance to the Mary of Nazareth International Center in central Nazareth doesn’t look like much. It’s just a simple doorway off narrow… Read More New Discoveries About Jesus of Nazareth

December 22, 2021December 26, 2022 Posted by SH

Love Letter to the Church. Carlo Carreto.

Carlo Carretto1910-1988 “How much I must criticize you, my church, and yet how much I love you! You have made me suffer more than anyone and yet I owe more to you than to anyone. I should like to see you destroyed and yet I need your presence. You have given me much scandal and… Read More Love Letter to the Church. Carlo Carreto.

October 31, 2021October 20, 2022 Posted by SHLeave a comment

Our Blessed Mother, Mary, in the Order of Grace

Fundamentalist Protestant incomprehension of the Catholic doctrine regarding Mary as the Mother of God is largely and essentially an incomprehension of the Incarnation itself, whereby the Word, who is God, was made flesh (John 1:1; 14). It is rooted in a failure to contemplate, with the Catholic Church, the stupendous implications of this wondrous mystery.… Read More Our Blessed Mother, Mary, in the Order of Grace

August 27, 2021January 22, 2023 Posted by SHLeave a comment

The Divine Mercy and Loneliness

“Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My Mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternity. (…) Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the fount of My Mercy.… Read More The Divine Mercy and Loneliness

May 22, 2021June 27, 2022 Posted by SH

Harmony and Differences on Predestination in Catholic Theology

Reginald Garrigou Lagrange and St. Alphonsus Ligouri 1. Catholic Thomist Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange’s Summary of Predestination: “Herein lies the great mystery of grace: it’s two aspects which are to be harmonized, may be expressed in the following manner: this mystery contains a striking light and shade: The light is expressed in two principles; the shade is… Read More Harmony and Differences on Predestination in Catholic Theology

May 13, 2021March 14, 2022 Posted by SHLeave a comment

Catholic Critique

Christian World View & Analysis, edited by Stephen Hand

Category: Grace

Tradwives’ push back against critics who say their viral homemaking lifestyle is ‘alarming’

The Mystical Body of Christ by Fulton J. Sheen

Seeking deliverance from sins and doing penance — without panic

John Paul II on The Loss of the Sense of Sin

Catholic Critique

Karl Rahner on the Word “God”

Into History Comes the Light

Terrance Malick’s “The Tree of Life”

Can A Mother Forget?

Augustine and the Nihil

Thomist Josef Pieper: Christians Have Always Been Called to Endure

Is There Such a Thing as “Mere Christianity”?

The Christian may not despair.

Antichristic Uncertainties

Daily Mass at The Slipper Chapel, Walsingham

Taking Sheen Seriously

The Meaning of the Cross

The Value of Suffering in Christ

Vulgar Grace

St. John Paul II and the Message of Divine Mercy.

Even the Wicked Are Rewarded In This Life.

White Lies

Forgiveness. “I Will Not Remember Their Sins”

New Discoveries About Jesus of Nazareth

Love Letter to the Church. Carlo Carreto.

Our Blessed Mother, Mary, in the Order of Grace

The Divine Mercy and Loneliness

Harmony and Differences on Predestination in Catholic Theology