By Mark Brumley, Catholic World Report. June 2020 Recently, the Second Vatican Council’s legitimacy and value have again been challenged. Some observers behave as if Benedict XVI saw Vatican II as a problem and proposed a “hermeneutic of continuity” to overcome the problem. Some people who act this way think Benedict XVI’s approach has failed. … Read More Benedict XVI, Vatican II, and the “hermeneutic of reform”. Opinion.
When we work we are either building or destroying. Dorothy Day said somewhere that if you sleep on the floor you don’t have to fret your life away about falling off of the bed. What was Henry David Thoreau’s attitude toward poverty and charity? Henry David Thoreau’s simplicity is a major theme of Walden. During the… Read More Wealth is determined by how much $ we do not owe
$+$ It has sometimes been said that distributism, the economic system that promotes widely distributed productive property – whether this is owned by a single proprietor, a family, or a worker cooperative – is hostile to labor unions and the labor movement. While I do not deny that there may have been someone who labels… Read More Distributism, Labor Unions, Capitalism and Marxism by Thomas Storck
Excerpt from The Mother of the Savior and Our Interior Life. Mary’s Predestination to the Divine Maternity Preceded her Predestination to the Fullness of Glory and Grace. by Rev. Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange. This proposition may appear a little too profound for a beginning. In reality it is quite easy to understand. Most people admit it,… Read More The Predestination of Mary by Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
How Jesus revealed Himself to the disciples after the resurrection in the Eucharist. 24 “… on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices which they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body.… Read More He was “known to them in the breaking of the bread”.
“With great joy and deep gratitude to God, I am pleased to announce the Mass for the Beatification of the Venerable Servant of God, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, will take place on Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 2 pm Central time at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis. With anticipation of a great… Read More Great Teacher of Our Time To Be Beatified September 24
By Thomas Merton. “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 “As long as I am obsessed with the need to… Read More A Response to Questions on Art and Freedom
“Mounting evidence shows that our rush toward digital everything comes with hidden cognitive costs. Neuroscientists have been studying what happens inside your brain when you write by hand versus type, and the results are… unexpected. In this video, discover what EEG brain scans reveal about handwriting, why “slower” might actually be faster for your brain,… Read More The Power of Handwriting & Reading Paper
Father Chris Alar, MIC, entered the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception, the religious community entrusted with spreading the message and devotion of Divine Mercy, as a postulant in July 2006. Prior to that time, he received a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of… Read More Wake up Between 3 and 5 Am? It is a Precious Call.
NOR editor, Pieter Vree, writes, “The NOR was contacted by a neocon foundation — right out of the blue” …”As my father wrote, “We at the NOR are glad to be independent of the ideological bigwigs. We don’t have to run around on the New York and D.C. cocktail-party circuit. We don’t have to kiss… Read More New Oxford Review’s Finest Hour
“Only the God of Jesus Christ is the living God [Jn. 14:16]. As has also been stated in the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation Dei Verbum (no. 3), the first God mentioned above—the God of the philosophers—is the fruit of human thought, of human speculation, and capable of saying something valid about God . In… Read More John Paul II on the Only Name Under Heaven
The moment before the moment. “No serious musician would say that there is such a thing as “the best chord ever”. But I disagree. Not only is there such a chord – one that Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin occasionally used to make their music truly special and unique – but this chord also allows us… Read More “The Best Chord Ever Created”.
“Only they can get close enough.” 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.[1]
(Originally published in Journal of Anglican Studies, 2005, 3 (2), 181–96 originally titled Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” Forty Years On. N.T. Wright.) N.T. Wright. Honest to God, published in 1963, was one of the most public religious bestsellers of the twentieth century. Because it was written by an Anglican bishop it was especially controversial. Yet there are questions… Read More Doubts about Doubt: “Honest to God” by N.T. Wright.
Sirach 3. And duties to the mother. 3 Children, listen to me; I am your father. Do what I tell you and you will be safe, 2 for the Lord has given fathers authority over their children and given children the obligation to obey their mothers. 3 If you respect your father, you can make… Read More The Primacy of the Father and the Nakedness of Noah
“Society has to defend itself to a certain extent against the tyranny of the [nihilist] state.” Rocco Buttiglione (Italian: [b. 6 June 1948) is an Italian Union of Christian and Centre Democrats politician and an academic. He was a close friend of Pope John Paul II. Buttiglione’s nomination for a post as European Commissioner with a portfolio that was to include civil… Read More Rocco Buttiglione on Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Such are our times, when the Cell Phone is the only ‘game’ in town (literally put into our very hands from a very young age) for practically every critical area of our lives (and where we are immeasurably inconvenienced to the point of real hardship without it) and where pornography is ubiquitous, unfettered, free and… Read More A Difficult Debate on Pornography and the Sexual Objectification of Persons
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
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.
…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.
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
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 evidently was too complex for him. We were expected in those days to see and attack all conservative… 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.
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 will… 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
