To fight a war, I need good weapons, and
My enemy I need to understand.
Who can imagine all Amazonia’s trees
Clapping their hands? Just watch God do it, with ease!
Moderns will often get the darkness right,
But if they miss Christ, still they have no light.
God gives us freedom, faculty of free-will,
But not the right to choose ‘twixt good and ill.
So truth is henceforth out-of-date, forsooth? –
Man has no greater loss than that of truth!
Catholics! Cut the electronics out!
All real reality they put to rout.
God cannot leave a soul to swim
That has not first abandoned Him.
”Where there’s a will to Heaven, there’s a way.”
And Benedict says to Christians, “Work and pray.”
A man who only wants eternal life
Can always rise with God above the strife.
Beware of anything flying overhead.
New Worlders now take aim – to zap you dead!
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.
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