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04/10/2010
Religionless religion makes the painter Van Gogh popular with the crowds today, but to be happy himself he needed the true religion.
Religionless religion makes the painter Van Gogh popular with the crowds today, but to be happy himself he needed the true religion.
For if I intend to drive to London, but am convinced that London is in Scotland, how will I ever reach London?
The Mass is central to the Church because it embodies Catholic Doctrine. The Mass needed saving first. Now for the Doctrine.
Where too many people split religion from today’s reality, “Letters from the Rector” are recommended for attempting to fit them together again.
A Catholic man, severely discouraged by today’s wasteland, testifies that praying fifteen Mysteries a day changed his situation completely.
Back in 1905 the masters of gold were planning the present economic crisis. By it God is punishing our worship of gold.
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.
Right-wingers in politics are merely better disguised apostates than left-wingers. Both are, as the peoples wish, sliding away from God.
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.