Marriage, children and grandparents. The reason men have always, when necessary, fought and died to protect the women they love is not only romantic or sentimental. It is, rather, because, in her mystery, woman carries the future. She is that sacred gift who sustains a people and life itself. To encourage women to join the… Read More She Carries the Future
“….she licensed every form of lust with laws to cleanse the stain of scandal she has spread;”—Dante, The Inferno, canto V, 57 The Nazarene Shepherd. The Nazarene ShepherdWho on Mount of Skulls diedmysteriously possessed what others vied Of power and mightthe mighty ones boastOf armies and battlesinvincible hosts The power to conquer, to strangle, and… Read More Power
It is better to fear the world’s admiration than to fear its mockery or ostracization. “He to whom the eternal Word speaks is set at liberty from a multitude of opinions. From one word are all things, and of this one all things speak; and this is the beginning which also speaks to us. From… Read More “Without this word no one understands or judges rightly”
Photo: Amazon.co.uk employee sorts through books and other retail goods at their facility in Milton Keynes, England. In April 2024, Oxfam America released a report alleging that Amazon and Walmart deploy excessive surveillance methods and other forms of worker control at their US warehouses. The report is based on findings from a survey of and… Read More Amazon and Walmart warehouse conditions likened to “slavery”
Many political conservatives seem to enjoy caricaturing needy families who are receiving SNAP benefits which are now being cut. And I can tell you many families need these programs to make ends meet. It may be the old predestinarian Puritan ethic that makes some conservatives callous, or it may be ignorance. But many girls and… Read More More Cuts
By Dr. Richard Bauckham. A groundbreaking work in New Testament studies, expanded and updated. Winner of the 2007 Christianity Today Book Award in Biblical Studies, this momentous volume argues that the four Gospels are closely based on the eyewitness testimony of those who personally knew Jesus. Noted New Testament scholar Richard Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption that… Read More Jesus and the Eyewitnesses
Opinion. By Karel van Wolferen.* In a famous exchange between a high official at the court of George W. Bush and journalist Ron Susskind, the official – later acknowledged to have been Karl Rove – takes the journalist to task for working in “the reality-based community.” He defined that as believing “that solutions emerge from your judicious… Read More Through The American Looking Glass. “We Create Our Own Reality,” He Said
This video features a musical rendition of the well-known Psalm 23, titled “Shepherd Me, O God,” composed and performed by Marty Haugen. Shepherd Me, O God” is a reflective liturgical piece based on the text of Psalm 23. The performance is part of the Spirit & Song collection (Disc E), which focuses on contemporary Catholic… Read More Time Out: Shepherd Me
Who is the hunter and who is the hunted after the recent midterm elections? Trump seeks to end the war with Iran before the Democrats do it their way. Congress is preparing aggressive investigations into President Trump and his administration following the recent midterm elections. This includes potential criminal investigations as Democrats assert their oversight… Read More Trump’s DOJ Strikes Back At Democrats.
Our New Religion Isn’t Enough. Freya India.Jun 04, 2024. These days it seems like everything is described as a new religion. Social justice is a new religion. So is climate activism. Trumpism, too. I saw a funny tweet recently about how girlboss feminism has now reinvented the Sabbath, with the shocking news that we might benefit from “one lazy day” a… Read More Who is God? The Universe?
Note: I take no position on the facts, claims and assertions found in the following essay, except to say that it is all very interesting and that the essay should be preserved alongside all of the rest of the scholarship on the topic. —- Stephen Hand “Father Edouard Dani is a Belgian Jesuit. Professor of theology… Read More Fr. Edouard Dhanis, Fr. Joseph Ratzinger* and Fatima.
Excerpted from Sacred Scripture and the writings of Dr. Mark Miravalle, professor of theology at Franciscan University, Steubenville. Rev. 12: A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to… Read More Patristic Sources and Excerpts on Mary
Art terrorism:
…as Trump bumbles his way into and out of war, just as his predecessors did, and for failing to keep many of his pocket book promises. …. Voters, if many of the top Democrat echelon have their way, have chosen more abortion, more gender confusion and reassignment surgery on route to Utopia, which means Nowhere,… Read More The Political Left is in Ecstacy
“He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” – Psalm 147:3 “Heal me, LORD, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.” – Jeremiah 17:14 A most beautiful offering for the sick of body, soul or mind. Robert Reed today is an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of… Read More Rosary for the Sick. Sorrowful Mysteries.
Christs love and service to all, to native born and to foreigners whom we encounter. The Order of Saint John, more commonly called the Order of Malta, lived by its credo, “Our Lords, the Sick and the Poor.” The members of the Order make a promise upon investiture to serve, to the best of their… Read More “Our lords the sick and the poor.”
By Malcolm Muggeridge ‘Feed My Sheep’ An advantage of being, as I am, only a belated reader of the New Testament, is that one often finds a freshness of enchantment in sentences and phrases which, I imagine, come to seem commonplace to more erudite and systematic readers. This is what happened with the three words,… Read More The great Moloch – Consumption
They Scarcely Noticed the Recent French Riots. One wonders why Rory Stewart & Alastair Campbell decided to practically ignore the Far Left’s recent incendiary attacks on France. It is a major European nation after all. And they say they care more about EU principles than power. But then again when the extreme Socialist Brethren are… Read More The Pied Pipers of the ‘Liberal World Order’
A demographic boom looms by 2050Muslim influencer Mohammed Hijab has publicly encouraged Muslims in Western countries to have larger families. Responding to Elon Musk on X, he wrote, “Muslims of the West, get married and have many kids try and aim… Read more
The year 1979 marked the beginning of the end for communism. Father Raymond J. de Souza In January, Deng Xiaoping, having seized power just weeks before, began the economic reforms that would remake Chinese communism. On June 2, 1979, Pope John Paul II returned for his first papal visit to Poland with a more ambitious… Read More Saint Pope John Paul II and Lech Walesa
” An unique and intimate performance from the legendary band that defined the early 70s folk sound. They ruled the Top-10 charts with their evocative harmonies, sometimes wild lyrics and acoustic-styled musicianship”. Alternative setlist here . Some of the songs made popular by America: Riverside Ventura Highway You Can Do Magic(Russ Ballard cover) Don’t Cross the… Read More Time Out for America
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
John Allen’s Passing. “John L. Allen Jr., a well-known Vatican reporter and editor of Crux, passed away on January 22, 2026, at the age of 61. His death followed a three-year battle with stomach cancer.” I first met John Allen in St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome in 1999. In some ways during Mr. Allen’s NCR and… Read More Benedict XVI, John Allen and Myself
A little of this and a little of that. There’s nothing new here. Everyone knows that most theological Progressivists do not really accept all that the Second Vatican Council teaches regarding the Mass, the Eucharist; (instead they said “they shared their bread” when feeding the five thousand and “that sharing was the actual miracle!,” I heard… Read More Progressivist Cafeteria Theology
12 And Herod and Pilate became friends with each other that very day, for before this they had been at enmity with each other… “What crime has this man committed? Pilate demanded?The I have found in him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore I will have him punished and then release him.” But with loud… Read More Common Cause and A Democratic Vote.
“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
From the Introduction: “… my critiques of his significant departures from the perennial teaching and practice of the Church… … “The twelve-year reign of Pope Francis was a time of tremendous upheaval and doctrinal confusion. This book chronicles the troubles caused by Pope Francis’s teachings on various matters, such as the authorization of giving Holy… Read More A Papacy of Confusion by Fr. Gerald E. Murray
The National Catholic Register Staff wrote in May of 2007, SÃO PAULO — When Pope Benedict XVI comes to Brazil this month, he’ll be visiting the country where liberation theology has had its greatest impact. But he’s already well acquainted with liberation theology. While serving as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the… Read More Benedict XVI And Liberation Theology. A Retrospective. 2007.
Note: some important thinkers who I admire, and whose writings can be found even at this website, find the idea of C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” objectionable for various reasons. I have made room for their thinking on the matter. And I understand the objections. I can only say I believe Lewis was doing a valuable… Read More The Reality of the Moral Law
In this video, economists Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Münchau discuss France’s massive debt problem amounting to 3.6 trillion euros. They argue that this issue is not due to the French government’s fiscal mismanagement, but rather stems from structural flaws embedded in the currency system of the euro itself. + $ Key discussion points: Structural problems of the… Read More France: Eurozone, Federalization? Dissolution of the Euro? How to Prevent Capital Flight?
While almost everybody’s shorter and shorter attention spans are being pointed in other directions, the human person and race is undergoing complete and total transhumanist reconstruction. Though radically fewer and fewer, there will always be worker “bees” and “scientific” elites to direct them to their work stations and pods. How did all of these plans… Read More The Faustian Face of Modern Science
By Malcolm Muggeridge. Some eight decades ago I came into the world, full of cries and wind and hiccups; now I prepare to leave it, also full of cries and wind and hiccups. Whence I came I cannot know, least of all in the light of contemporary myths like Darwinian evolution, Freudian psychology, situational ethics,… Read More As daylight hours draw to a close
I wander across the border into Oz using the secret map the Tin Man gave me earlier. Tin Man ? 🔭 Tin Man: SCARECROW!!! IS THAT THEE?! Aye! And you are looking well! Your faithful Tin Man is HERE! Still standing, still reasonably well-oiled, and still keeping one wary eye on those infernal Flying Monkeys!… Read More The Tin Man on Thomas Merton
Jack Ruby was an American nightclub owner who fatally shot Lee Harvey Oswald on November 24, 1963, while Oswald was in police custody. That’s what’s taught in history class, but …. (Click above).
Aldous Huxley stated plainly, “I had motives for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption [SH: note that desire preceded investigation]. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with… Read More Huxley’s Faith and Confession
📖 By Alistair Chalmers There’s a quiet crisis happening in our world today. It’s not new, but it’s growing—and it’s changing how we think, how we feel, and how we follow Jesus. It’s the slow decline of reading. Fewer and fewer people are reading books, especially people in the younger generations. Attention spans are shrinking.… Read More Losing Our Words: The Decline of Reading and the Rise of Reels
I asked DuckDuckgo AI, When you’re hungry at night is it generally better to eat the equivalent in bread or potatoes? Reply: It’s generally better to choose potatoes over bread at night, as they are often more filling and have a lower glycemic index, which can help maintain stable blood sugar levels. However, portion control… Read More Bread or Potatoes?
Update 10/19/26: “President Macron to address public grievances, however slammed the radical far-left for undermining the Republic and vowed legal action”. — Source. “French PM calls for partial curfews as he condemns ‘thieves’ and ‘thugs’ behind riots”— Source. Lecornu saying “we will not be dictated and ruled by the breakers, by the thieves, by the… Read More “Far Left Socialists” Blamed for Rioting Across Europe.
Lorica of Saint Patrick in song Attributed to Saint Patrick / EWTN. I arise todayThrough a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity, Through a belief in the Threeness, Through confession of the Oneness Of the Creator of creation. I arise today Through the strength of Christ’s birth and His baptism, Through the strength of His crucifixion and His burial, Through the… Read More St. Patrick Breastplate
Catholic Culture.org. / To the Episcopate to the Clergy and to the Faithful of the Whole Catholic Church, INTRODUCTION 1. The family in the modern world, as much as and perhaps more than any other institution, has been beset by the many profound and rapid changes that have affected society and culture. Many families are… Read More St. John Paul II On the Family (Familiaris Consortio).
