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12/28/2019
The Archbishop said, “Rome is no more in Rome.”
Elsewhere today is Catholics’ spiritual home.
The Archbishop said, “Rome is no more in Rome.”
Elsewhere today is Catholics’ spiritual home.
The world is rotten, boys, round and about,
But God remains, unchanged. Have there no doubt!
The American film-maker, John Ford, comes maybe as close as modern times can to that greatest of popular entertainers, William Shakespeare.
How can a modern artist like T.S.Eliot be praiseworthy? Because while facing modern man’s disorder, he never gives up on God’s order.
The 20th century’s most outstanding poet in English, T.S.Eliot, sets an example of not pretending that modernity is angelic.
To live by borrowing is foolish for borrowers and often today criminal for lenders, but God uses such criminals to scourge apostasy.
Free-will’s inclination to sense delights accounts for the damnation of numberless souls, but also for God’s Paradise being no little reward.
People who claim that Shakespeare belonged to the Lavender Brigade cannot understand what they are reading, notably Sonnet 20.
Beethoven portrays in music a Roman hero whose turning against Rome was overcome only by his mother’s pleading, which saved Rome.
To counter the all-powerful influence of films on young people’s minds, the literature tapes of Dr David White are warmly recommended.
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.