Nov
11
St. Martin of Tours
November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The ancient penitential season begins with fasting and abstinence following today’s feast. Anterior to the keeping of Advent in more recent customs, this 40 days of penance was kept in the ancient Rule of 1221, the original rule of the Third Order of St. Francis at a time when the Franciscan Third Order had standards [...]
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 [...]
Sep
19
Catholic liberalism as cultural imperialism
September 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Too often I read young Catholic authors waxing indignant about “racism” and oppression of the poor: Young intellectuals who themselves are often (not always) neither poor nor of color. These are often theology students who are not in seminary – what ever happened to learning a trade or aspiring to become a “Marine Biologist”? Anyway, [...]
Sep
7
Lobos en vestido como carnero
September 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Pienso que las fuerzas diabolicas estan trabajando sin cesar en unas sillas del poder en la Santa Iglesia, Cardenales que abrazan el pecho de Jesus pero por 30 piezas de plata de los manos poderosos de los politicos ellos olvidare el Evangel de Jesucristo- como en Boston, Los Angeles. Oremos por un Pastor para luchar [...]
Sep
5
Health reform: Kennedy brain cancer, funerals, and change
September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
Senator Ted Kennedy – he died of brain cancer – glioblastoma multiforme – a cancer for which there is no cure, for which the 5 year survival is 3%, with median survival at 15 months even with surgery, chemo and radiation. The treatments are expensive and 50 percent of those treated will be dead within [...]
Aug
31
Academics as makers of bourgeoise suburbanite values
August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Academics have entirely too much influence on the formation of social and cultural values in our society. Often enjoying tenured chars in State funded Universities, these tweedy fellows, now the spawn of 1960s revolutionary Anarchism and Marxism, theorize on things they know little or nothing about- especially health care, poverrty, and labor . In the end academics [...]
