Oct
31
Happy Halloween
October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Today is the Vigil of All Saints, known in the Anglophone world as Halloween. Rather than go on mightily against the custom of dressing in devil’s costumes and going door to door begging for candy, there are plenty of more qualified persons who have warned of the Diabolic influence and anti-Catholic bias of that, I [...]
Oct
29
Health care reform: necessities versus rights
October 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
Health care is not a “right”, it is a necessity like clean water, food, clothing and shelter. Rights include such things as the right to be paid for one’s work, yet there are those who presume to be Catholic, such as the late Senator Ted Kennedy, that believe health care should be given freely as [...]
Oct
28
Quadraginta Annis: A meaningless liturgical calendar, a “novus ordo”
October 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Dom Prosper Gueranger wrote as if to somehow foreshadow the conditions of our own infelicitous age when he penned his entry for the Feast of Christ The King:
Today we sadly behold “a world undone,” largely paganized in principles and outlook, and sometimes even glorying in the name “pagan.” At the best, governments mostly ignore God; [...]
Oct
20
Quadraginta Annis: “The Spirit of Vatican II”
October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment
“When there is an imminent danger for the Faith, Prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.”
St. Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” II, II, q. 33, a. 4
In a previous post I wrote:
Being born of a happier time and catechised before the catastrophic takeover of the Church by the malign “Spirit of Vatican II”, [...]
Oct
7
Quadraginta annis: bad catechesis
October 7, 2009 | 1 Comment
I attended along with my wife a first meeting of the new “Why Catholic?” program in our parish, one which we attend by default because it is the only parish in our rural area of the USA. We were of course appalled by the content – actually lack thereof- contained in the initial book as [...]
Oct
3
Quadraginta annis – 40 years
October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Quadraginta annis taeduit me generationis illius
et dixi: Populus errantium corde sunt isti.
Et ipsi non cognoverunt vias meas;
ideo iuravi in ira mea: Non introibunt in requiem meam
The Psalmist wrote in the 94th Psalm (Vulgate) – 40 years that generation wearied me, I said these are a people who err in their hearts and I judged in my [...]
