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12/19/2009
Good news from the economic crisis – families are pulling together instead of apart, and credit cards are being used less.
Good news from the economic crisis – families are pulling together instead of apart, and credit cards are being used less.
The Mass is central to the Church because it embodies Catholic Doctrine. The Mass needed saving first. Now for the Doctrine.
A religious revival reportedly taking place in Russia may suggest that with the Fatima conversion it will help to save the Western Church.
A passage from Maria Valtorta’s admirable “Poem of the Man-God” diagnoses Judas Iscariot’s downfall – he wanted to save himself.
A Catholic man, severely discouraged by today’s wasteland, testifies that praying fifteen Mysteries a day changed his situation completely.
What is Neo-modernism? It is the Conciliar revival of the century-old error seeking to adapt the Church to the modern world.
St. Thomas Aquinas presents all aspects of Christ’s suffering. No amount of suffering of all men who ever lived, could match it.
Beethoven portrays in music a Roman hero whose turning against Rome was overcome only by his mother’s pleading, which saved Rome.
The four SSPX bishops being “re-incommunicated” must help the Church, and any Rome-SSX discussions now starting should also be positive.
If anybody does not foresee trouble in 2009, let him wake up. If anybody foreseeing it trembles, let him trust in Providence.
To a doubting French journalist the author of “Eleison Comments” expresses confidence that the imminent Motu Proprio will do much good.
Indeed, it both declares that the Tridentine Mass was never banned, and permits Latin rite priests to use it, whenever and wherever.
By overloading our eyes and ears, said Kafka, the cinema overwhelms our minds. Minds being overwhelmed means that lies triumph.
In his outstanding Encyclical of 100 years ago, Pius X nailed the deadly error of modern times: minds’ independence from their object.
Despite many Catholics’ reservations as to the content and motivation of the Motu Proprio, one may still believe it will do good.