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01/03/2009
Overwhelming debt is at the heart of today’s financial crisis. Too many people and governments have been living beyond their means.
Overwhelming debt is at the heart of today’s financial crisis. Too many people and governments have been living beyond their means.
If anybody does not foresee trouble in 2009, let him wake up. If anybody foreseeing it trembles, let him trust in Providence.
Back in 1905 the masters of gold were planning the present economic crisis. By it God is punishing our worship of gold.
The natural order of religion, politics, economics and finance has today been reversed, yet the financiers are not, after all, in command.
The world’s economic and financial crisis rolls on. Get rid of credit cards, and be ready for the global police-state.
To counter the all-powerful influence of films on young people’s minds, the literature tapes of Dr David White are warmly recommended.
Unstable mountains of debt are crushing the world’s interlocked finances. Prepare for material hardship, keep in mind spiritual realities.
The mass of people are living in a fantasy-land. The endless piling up of debt must come to an end before long.
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.