“Never seek honor for yourself at your father’s expense; it is not to your credit if he is dishonored… Your own honor comes from the respect that you show to your father. If children do not honor their mothers, it is their own disgrace… do not forget the birth pangs of your mother”. Sirach 3 Duties… Read More Sirach 3 on Children’s Debt to Parents
Malcolm Muggeridge. “… Confronted with [our] crazy contradiction between, on the one hand, so many hungry sheep, and, on the other, so many over-indulged ones under constant pressure and persuasion to indulge themselves further, what is to be done? There are those who very properly attempt to rectify the balance by charitable endeavour or political… Read More Malcolm Muggeridge on the teachings of Jesus
Dr. Ralph Martin is president of Renewal Ministries, an organization devoted to Catholic renewal and evangelization. Martin also hosts The Choices We Face, a widely viewed weekly Catholic television and radio program distributed throughout the world. He holds a doctorate in theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. He was named… Read More What Some Catholics Are Thinking of the Post BXVI Directions
Or how to squeeze the generally heterodox Union Theological Seminary into two Millennia of unambiguous Catholic teaching. Raymond Brown’s Wayward Turn in Biblical Theory by Msgr. George A. Kelly Ignatius Press, San Francisco, CA, January / February Note: Raymond E. Brown was professor emeritus at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York City, where he taught for 29… Read More Raymond E. Brown’s Mischievous Tactic: the “Scientifically Controlled Evidence”
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
“Learn the science of singing and how vocal activity impacts your brain and body. Understand the biology behind every note. Singing is more than just a musical performance; it is a complex physiological process that engages multiple systems. This video examines the science of singing to explain exactly what occurs during vocalization. Whether you are… Read More What Happens When We Sing
St. Antoninus writes: In the Event of the Most Grave Confusion(s): “The people are not oblidged to know…” And St. Thomas Aquinas on whether one must avoid (ipso facto or otherwise) excommunicated persons before sentence has been passed Principles St. Antoninus, commenting on the Great Western Schism. (1054 A.D.) “The question was much discussed and much… Read More In the Most Grave Confusion(s): “The People Are Not Oblidged to Know…”
$+$ 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
The Popes in my opinion get way too much attention and media coverage. It is not good for their or our souls. When a pope speaks of extraordinary issues (as was the case with, say humane vitae, abortion, or war, etc.) or especially from the Chair (ex Cathedra) with a view to binding all Catholics… Read More “The Pope is not an absolute monarch whose thoughts and desires are law“ — BXVI
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
Just before our love got lost you said –“I am as constant as a northern star”-And I said, “Constantly in the darkness, –Where’s that at?If you want me I’ll be in the bar” — Joni Mitchell, Case of You
Note: never-ending bookseller hatred for JFK is just what the warmongering Deep State wants. The ubiquitous media is influential after all. The objective has always been to murder even the memory of this President who so opposed that same Deep State and its dangerous amoral ways. –SH One of the most respected researchers and writers on… Read More JFK & the Ladies… Maureen Callahan Goes over the Edge.
“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
“Turn off your mind, relax and float down stream”—John Lennon Photo by Yoko Ono. Updated. Perhaps it is one of those curious fearful symmetries(1) that the words of John Lennon quoted above are found in the Beatles’ album titled ‘Revolver’…and that he was finally gunned down, shot multiple times in the back by a “fan”.… Read More John Lennon and The Seductions of Beautiful Nothing
“The acorn comes from a full-grown oak. The first crude engine, the Rocket, comes, not from a still cruder engine, but from something much more perfect than itself and much more complex, the mind of a man, and a man of genius. The first prehistoric drawings come, not from earlier scratchings, but from the hand… Read More C.S. Lewis on Darwinian Myths
Near the gates of Jerusalem it was reported that Jesus raised a man from the dead to the astonishment and fear of all who were present. His name was Lazarus. When the Temple scribes and priests heard the pandemonium of the crowds they knew they had to confront Jesus whom they feared might be another… Read More Lazarus Called Forth
“For the average person, all problems date to World War II; for the more informed, to World War I; for the genuine historian, to the French Revolution.” —Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn “Our Lord never intended that any other blood than His own should be shed in expiation for sins. Because men have not invoked the blood… Read More The French Revolution and the Fall of Robespierre
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”.
See also, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and a New World Order. Our complex theological predicament, which only the hierarchical Church may, in time, formally adjudicate, appears to be here to stay — until the Parousia. By Stephen Hand. Updated. 2015. If Francis and Cardinal Kasper have taught us anything over the past few years,… Read More John XXIII, Benedict XVI and Francis. 2015.
There is hardly a Progressivist Catholic theologian who hasn’t heard of Harvard’s late existentialist philospher and theologian, Paul Tillich, a man of considerable intellect and impact. Most remain in awe of him. Situation Ethics, which Tillich subscribed to, doubtless plays a role in that admiration.”The law of love is the ultimate law”. In Situation Ethics … Read More Consider Paul Tillich
The value of sufferings in Christ By Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, O.C.D. May we never boast of anything but the Cross. O Jesus Crucified, teach me the science of the Cross. 1. The Passion of Jesus teaches us in a concrete way that in the Christian life we must be able to accept… Read More Personal knowledge of the Cross
“Human Dignity” and The Alternative World Order of John Paul II and Benedict XVI and Why Leftists Both Outside and Inside the Church Opposed Them. After the horrors of World War II, it is little wonder that Pope John Paul II during his long pontificate placed such great emphasis on the “dignity of the human… Read More John Paul II, Benedict XVI and a New World Order
To be a Roman Catholic one must believe in miracles. This in itself has been a stumbling block to many. And yet the believer knows that one need only find the earth beneath one’s feet and all other genuine miracles become mere footnotes. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, originally a student of the intractable rationalist, Bertrand… Read More Wittgenstein and Existence.
Sam shackleton, also known by his gaelic moniker, sorley the bard, is a scottish singer-songwriter and folk artist. his music is greatly inspired by the rich inter-connected musical oral traditions of Scotland, Ireland, and the United States. strongly influenced by the 1960’s folk revival, his unique sound is a mix of country, old time, traditional,… Read More Sam Shackleton: Celtic Bard & Balladeer
“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.
Note: Mary Daly died in January 2010. It is good to be tolerant, even of incoherent things, we are told today. The devil himself ought to be given a seat at the table. So the courts have ruled. But that can’t stop us from noticing that Mary Daly represents the meltdown of the dissident transgressive… Read More Consider Mary Daly: The Witch of Boston College
2 Timothy 3:1-5. “But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal,not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying… Read More Thomist Josef Pieper on the Pseudo-Order and World Dominion of the AntiChrist.
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
Or, where the Left would take us. by Roger Kimball.The New Criterion. On The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. Michel Foucault’s personal perversions involved him in private tragedy. The celebration of his intellectual perversions by academics continues to be a public scandal. The career of this “representative man” of the twentieth century really represents one of… Read More Consider Michel Foucault
by Charlotte Allen, 2001 | WICCA, sometimes known as the Goddess movement, Goddess spirituality, or the Craft, appears to be the fastest-growing religion in America. Thirty years ago only a handful of Wiccans existed. One scholar has estimated that there are now more than 200,000 adherents of Wicca and related “neopagan” faiths in the United… Read More The Scholars and the Goddess
From Trojan Horse in the City of God,by Dietrich von Hildebrand. Note: what follows by Dietrich Von Hildebrand is lengthy but well worth a print-out and read — SH I MET TEILHARD DE CHARDIN in 1949 at a dinner arranged by Father Robert Gannon, S.J., then president of Fordham University. Previously, the noted scholars Father… Read More Consider Teilhard de Chardin
“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
