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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.
The divorce of Catholic Truth and Authority from one another is something unthinkable, yet the Vatican II churchmen made it a reality.
To deny liberty for the public practice of false religions makes no sense unless one knows which is the one true religion.
Bishop Tissier tells us that the way is being prepared for Rome-SSPX discussions.They must run into an irreconcilable doctrinal difference.
In economics as in religion, compromises that have built up over centuries are finally breaking down. But the Church will survive.
Overwhelming debt is at the heart of today’s financial crisis. Too many people and governments have been living beyond their means.
An American “thinking outside the box” foresees all of us being obliged to do the same. But we must return to God.
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 say that religion has one truth while common sense has another is either a supreme crime, a supreme loss, or both.
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.