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11/10/2012
It is not clear that the present need is to rebuild a classic Congregation or Seminary. Both may be somehow out-dated.
It is not clear that the present need is to rebuild a classic Congregation or Seminary. Both may be somehow out-dated.
Cardinal Siri was a fine churchman, but by his lack of reaction to the disaster of Vatican II, arguably not fine enough.
All the beauties of Creation teach the value of time and why no soul at death can plead, “I did not know . . .”
It is not unjust for a soul’s eternal fate to depend on its brief life on earth. God spoke to it constantly.
A remark of Brahms concerning his Violin Concerto shows that even without the Catholic Faith a man can appreciate God’s objective order.
The ugliness of modern art argues for God’s existence. God is not a policeman, but a liberator of the good in man.
In Subiaco, Italy, St Benedict spent three years in a mountain cave, amidst God’s Nature, filling his soul with God’s grace.
Today’s post-Christian pagans are enemies of grace and nature alike. Pre-Christian classics can give special access to the human nature underlying grace.
An ancient Roan poet, not a Christian, expresses many truths of human nature. Grace is friend, not enemy, of this nature.
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.