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04/03/2010
Americans today have “little regard for truth, little access to it and little ability to recognize it,” says an American. Example, 9/11.
Americans today have “little regard for truth, little access to it and little ability to recognize it,” says an American. Example, 9/11.
Good news from the economic crisis – families are pulling together instead of apart, and credit cards are being used less.
The Frankfurt School played a large part, before and after World War II, in making Western civilization lurch to the left.
A religious revival reportedly taking place in Russia may suggest that with the Fatima conversion it will help to save the Western Church.
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.
If wild finances and crippled welfare are merely the logical conclusion of free-for-all capitalism, how about trying the Gospel?
An American family doctor describes the parlous state of his patients: infertile, over-fed, under-nourished, and incapable of resisting the anti-culture.
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.
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.