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12/04/2010
The key to the problem of Gauguin and Maugham is modern society’s making war on God. Modern art cannot be serene.
The key to the problem of Gauguin and Maugham is modern society’s making war on God. Modern art cannot be serene.
If modern city-dwellers cannot flee like Benedict to a mountain cave, they can still build a cave for God within their souls.
The same author thanks all who sent greetings on his 70th birthday. The priest’s life has been and is a happy one.
A religious revival reportedly taking place in Russia may suggest that with the Fatima conversion it will help to save the Western Church.
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.
Today’s world situation, constructed by the banksters, is unstable and precarious. Only in the light of God can it be properly understood.
It looks as though an insane attack on Iran has just been averted. We must trust in God’s goodness to direct events.
Today’s governments are out of touch with their peoples and with reality. It must end in war or police-states.
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.