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08/08/2009
Where too many people split religion from today’s reality, “Letters from the Rector” are recommended for attempting to fit them together again.
Where too many people split religion from today’s reality, “Letters from the Rector” are recommended for attempting to fit them together again.
As all structures of Western civilization crumble around us, we wonder if the next step is a super-9/11, or 9/11 squared – 81/121.
What is a family father to do today? Envisage ensuring the basics of survival, and prepare for a new Age of Martyrs.
If anybody does not foresee trouble in 2009, let him wake up. If anybody foreseeing it trembles, let him trust in Providence.
The natural order of religion, politics, economics and finance has today been reversed, yet the financiers are not, after all, in command.
In Psalm 81 God castigates the rich for oppressing the poor. The Psalm could have been written today. Watch out, banksters!
To counter the all-powerful influence of films on young people’s minds, the literature tapes of Dr David White are warmly recommended.
Right-wingers in politics are merely better disguised apostates than left-wingers. Both are, as the peoples wish, sliding away from God.
Modern politicians constantly praise change, because modern man is permanently unsatisfied with his war on a nature that does not change.
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.