An excellent piece in Crisis by Peter Kwasniewski. The obvious problems with the recent opening of the ministries of lector and acolyte to women by Pope Francis has already been the subject of a number of articles, including one that I wrote earlier this week. As I reflect further on the motu proprio Spiritus Domini, I see more and more…
“You will know the truth and the truth will set you free”
Fr Augustine Mary of the Blessed Sacrament Gerard Brady “This is the silent music, because it is knowledge tranquil and calm, without audible voice; and thus the sweetness of music and the repose of silence are enjoyed in it. The soul says that the Beloved is silent music, because this harmony of spiritual music is…
Venerable Matt Talbot – A Patron for the Addicted
“So the faithful servants of the Blessed Virgin may confidently say with St. John Damascene, “If I confide in you , Mother of God, I shall be saved. Under your protection I shall fear Nothing. With your help I shall rout all my enemies. For devotion to you is a weapon of salvation which God…
Fr. William Doyle SJ – Prayer Warrior
William Joseph Gabriel Doyle was born in Dalkey County Dublin on March 3, 1873. He was the youngest of seven children, four boys and three girls. The eldest and youngest of the girls married; the second became a Sister of Mercy. The eldest boy after a short stay in the Jesuit Novitiate entered Holy Cross…
Truth in an Age of Disinformation
I had the following document sent to me via the website http://www.lumenfidei.ie and am grateful to be able to share it. CONSCIENCE & VACCINES Q. Is it true that COVID-19 vaccines are created using organs of aborted infants?A. When we first heard about the experimentation on human embryos and foetuses many years ago, most of us were incredulous….
PASSIO ECCLESIÆ
A Meditation on the Passion and Death of the Lord This is your hour; it is the reign of darkness.Luke 22:53 The texts of the liturgy of the Sacred Triduum strike us, like the lash of a whip, for the crude brutality of the torments to which the Lord was subjected by the will of…
BETWEEN THE LINES of the Report of the Secretariat of State on Theodore McCarrick
The McCarrick Report published by the Secretariat of State on November 10, 2020, has been the object of numerous comments. Some point out its shortcomings, while others praise it as a proof of Bergoglio’s transparency and the groundlessness of my accusations. I would like to focus on some aspects that deserve to be further explored,…
plus ça change
From the second book of Machabees, Chapter 6. For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves of their accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were not lawful. The altar also was filled with unlawful things,…
MARY IMMACULATE VIRGIN MOTHER
Thus says God, the Lord, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread forth the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it… “I am the Lord, that is my name; my glory I have given to no other,…
From Longford to Paris — The story of the Abbé Edgeworth de Firmont
“Henry Essex Edgeworth of Firmont A priest of the Holy Church of God; Vicar General of the Diocese of Paris, &c. Who, Pursuing the Steps of Our Redeemer, Was an Eye to the Blind, A Staff to the Lame, A Father to the Poor, And a Consoler of the Afflicted.” Epitaph The man who would…
The Second Vatican Council: A Story Now Being Written
The following is the full transcript of a speech given by Professor Roberto de Mattei, founder and president of the Lepanto Foundation, in Seville, Spain (Mar. 2, 2019). It first appeared in the print edition of Catholic Family News in two parts (April and May 2019 issues). Professor de Mattei was in Seville to address…
Road to Nowhere.
Protestant Private Judgement Exemplified – A Review of “A Path to Healing a Nation” by Frances Hogan – Columba Press 2014 One of the perils of running a repository for Church is that once in a while you make what you think is an inspired purchase which upon receipt turns out to be unsalable. I…
In Civitate Dei Nostri 