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.
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
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
+ 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
“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?
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
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.
…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
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
The Bonnie Banks o’ Loch Lomond” (or “Loch Lomond“) is a traditional Scottish folk song (Roud No. 9598).[1][2] Its origins are thought to date to the Jacobite rising of 1745. Born in Rome to the exiled Stuart court, he spent much of his early and later life in Italy. In 1744, he travelled to France to take part in a… Read More On the Beautiful Banks O’ Loch Lomand
Planxty. Planxty[1] were an Irish folk music band formed in January 1972,[1]: 99–100 consisting initially of Christy Moore (vocals, acoustic guitar, bodhrán), Andy Irvine (vocals, mandolin, mandola, bouzouki, hurdy-gurdy, harmonica), Dónal Lunny (bouzouki, guitars, bodhrán, keyboards), and Liam O’Flynn (uilleann pipes, tin whistle). They transformed and popularized Irish folk music, touring and recording to great acclaim. Planxty
The exhumation of Anne Boleyn and restoration of the Chapel of St. Peter Ad Vincula In 1848, a historian by the name of Lord Thomas Macaulay visited the Chapel of St. Peter ad Vincula in the grounds of The Tower of London. He recorded his thoughts on the place in the first edition of his… Read More The Opening of Anne Boelyn’s Coffin
” …but she has come down to condemn that wild ocean for the murderous loss of her man.” “The Fisherman’s Song” by Silly Wizard reflects themes of loss and longing, particularly the emotional struggles faced by a fisherman and his wife. The song conveys a sense of melancholy and the hardships of life at sea,… Read More Silly Wizard. The Fisherman’s Song (Tragedy).
By Father Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene, O.C.D. Even without the presence of other causes, it is possible to pass from a state of sensible spiritual fervor to one of absolute aridity. This happens by the direct work of God which makes it impossible for the soul to pray with the help of the mind… Read More Aridity and Spiritual Progress
“The Russian intelligentsia produced a faith based upon a strange syllogism: ‘Man is descended from the apes, therefore we must love one another.’” — Vladimir Solovyev. On Lenin’s desk in the Kremlin there stood, for most of the years he worked there, a strange bronze statue of an ape gazing with an expression of profound… Read More Lenin, the Ape and the Skull
By Carlo Carretto, 1910 – 1988 (*). Carlo Carretto PFE was an Italian Catholic and member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel. See other links at this website. His books can be purchased at Amazon.com. ~~~ “Charles de Foucauld said one day: “If the contemplative life were possible only behind monastic walls or in the silence… Read More Contemplation in the Streets
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,and has lifted up the lowly.He has filled the hungry with good things,and the rich he has sent away empty.He has come to the help of his servant Israelfor he has remembered his promise of mercy,the promise he made to our fathers,to Abraham and his children forever.… Read More Jesus and the Poor
… is well over a Hundred Years Old. Rerum Novarum was Radical then. It is Radical today. Discover why this 130-year-old document remains startlingly relevant to contemporary economic theory and thought.. The only real and viable economic “centrism” between Capitalism and Socialism / Communism has always and only been found in Catholic Social Teaching. Quasi-Marxists have… Read More Forget the Marxist Counterfeits, The Only Real and Viable Economic Centrist Position…
Fr. Phillip Stark, today in his 90s and frail, has been a wonderful priest to everyone who attends his Mass at St. Anne’s chapel in Still River. He still says Mass almost daily; he was a Jesuit and secretary to Thomas Merton whom he admires to this day, whatever Merton’s theological complexities. He was ordained… Read More No Greater Love
Dr. Marcus Peters | New Oxford Review | Jul-Aug 2026. January 30 is a strange combination of historical anniversaries. It is the anniversary of Mohandas Gandhi’s assassination, when the Indian proponent of nonviolence fell to a bullet fired at point-blank range. It is the anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s inauguration into power, when German political office… Read More Gandhi, Hitler & Churchill in Limbo: A Trialogue
Trading Salvation For Nights of Gin and Lace… Mississippi Delta Blues in the Cotton Fields | 1930s Rural Harmonica & Steel Guitar “Travel deep into the cotton fields of the 1930s Mississippi Delta, where the sound of steel guitar and lonely harmonica drifted across dusty roads and endless Southern farmland. This collection captures the raw… Read More The Devil’s Loose Change
“Today the first and perhaps the only duty of the philosopher is to defend man against himself: to defend man against that extraordinary temptation toward inhumanity to which—almost without being aware of it—so many human beings today have yielded.” — GABRIEL MARCEL :“The generals and fighters on both sides, in World War II, the ones… Read More Thomas Merton: Nuclear Weapons and Sanity
“The bones likely belong to people sacrificed during the reign of Ahuízotl, eighth king of the Aztecs. The dead included men, women and children alike.* — l Courtesy of INAH. Smithsonian Magazine. “Archaeologists excavating a famed Aztec “tower of skulls” in Mexico City have uncovered a new section featuring 119 human skulls. The find brings the… Read More Apocalypto 2020. Researchers in Mexico City discovered a macabre late 15th-century structure
The Tin Man weighs in. “Good morning, my dear Scarecrow. I see you’ve wandered into one of the darkest corners of the Tudor forest. It is exactly the sort of question where history, rumor, politics, and genuine mystery become almost impossible to separate.The short answer is this: Catherine of Aragon almost certainly died a natural… Read More Did the Tudor Court Think Catherine of Aragon Was Likely to be Murdered by Henry?
Exercising the brain and memory as deep older age sets in. In seven months I have learned piano and relearned guitar which I haven’t played in over 50 years. Between the two I can now play most of the musical catalogue I’ve loved since my youth and more. I wanted to do this in order… Read More Aging and the Brains God Gave Us
“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!
“What makes for kitsch is not the attempt to compete with the photograph [as Greenberg believed was true of representational art] but the attempt to have your emotions on the cheap—the attempt to appear sublime without the effort of being so. And this cut-price version of the sublime artistic gesture is there for all to see… Read More Spiritual Beauty in Art: Never Cheap, Never Kitsch, Never Rupnik
Socialist resentment, envy and ideology has consequences, from Shrinkflation to inevitable increases in rent, as well as in goods and services. The man who is expected to replace Keir Starmer the outgoing British Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, says there is ‘room for movement’ on tax. This is not surprising, says Jacob Rees Mogg, M.P. for… Read More Rees Mogg Corrects Andy Burnham with the ‘Always’ Consequences of Socialism
When printed texts and analog recordings are being phased out and replaced by digital media. March 29, 2025.Wiley Online Library. Abstract: Physical forms of media are increasingly being phased out and replaced by digital media. While this transition entails significant gains for consumers, it also presents risks that are worthy of attention and analysis. Thanks… Read More The Digital Memory Hole: Distortion and Accountability in the Age of New Media
