Catechism on the Real PresenceExhortation to Promote the Cult of the EucharistFr. John A. Hardon, S.J.…104. Against what does Pope Paul VI especially warn the bishops? He warns them to be perfectly loyal to the teaching of Christ on the Real Presence and to promote tirelessly the worship of Jesus Christ who is living among us in the Blessed Sacrament. (MF 75) 105. What is the Holy Father's great hope for the faithful? His hope is that we may come...
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI has stated it clearly: homosexuality is incompatible with the priesthood. But Elizabeth Scalia, a writer/blogger for First Things and The Anchoress on Patheos, disagrees. In a blog post which may be found here, Ms. Scalia cites Joshua Gonnerman, "If Christians have any interest in reaching out to the gay community, if we have any hope to speak a message which can touch their hearts as well, we absolutely must be willing...
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Lord Acton.I do not usually re-post entire articles from other Blogs. But here I make an exception. For two reasons: First, the piece is excellent. Second, it is a subject of critical importance for the American people. Our Founding Fathers understood the weakness of human nature and the tendency of power to corrupt those who wield it. Consequently, they wanted...
Monday, July 9, 2012
In my last post, I compared President Obama's new executive order with the Third Reich's "Decree for the Protection of the German People." Every dictatorship, or every country en route toward dictatorship, justifies its lust for power and control by asserting that such power grabs are for the "good of the people" or "public safety in times of crisis" or for reasons of "national security." But all of the bovine scatology in the world...
Sunday, July 8, 2012
The White HouseOffice of the Press SecretaryFor Immediate Release July 06, 2012 Executive Order -- Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications FunctionsEXECUTIVE ORDERASSIGNMENT OF NATIONAL SECURITY ANDEMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS COMMUNICATIONS FUNCTIONSBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:Section 1. Policy. The Federal...
Saturday, July 7, 2012
In a homily delivered at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception that brought the U.S. bishops' "fortnight for freedom" to a close, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput stressed that defending religious liberty is part of the bigger struggle to "convert our own hearts" and to "live for God completely." See here.This struggle to convert our own hearts and to live for God completely encompasses a battle against Satan...
Friday, July 6, 2012
It was St. Peter Damian, a Doctor of the Church, who explained that the vice of sodomy "surpasses the enormity of all others," because, "Without fail, it brings death to the body and destruction to the soul. It pollutes the flesh, extinguishes the light of the mind, expels the Holy Spirit from the temple of the human heart, and gives entrance to the devil, the stimulator of lust: It leads to error, totally removes truth from the deluded mind . ....
Thursday, July 5, 2012
The German magazine Titanic, founded in 1979 by former contributors and editors of Pardon, a satirical monthly, after they had a series of conflicts with their publisher, is mocking Pope Benedict XVI and holding the Holy Father up to contempt by depicting him as a senile and incontinent person. See here.In our modern, paganistic world, the authority of the Holy Father is often challenged, openly defied and even rejected. The early Christians...
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Professor Massimo Introvigne, Chairman of the newly created Observatory on Religious Liberty, a joint-creation of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the City of Rome, the purpose of which is to monitor religious freedom around the world, has expressed his concern that the United States is on the path to anti-Christian violence.As reported by the Catholic News Agency here, "The inaugural meeting was held at Rome’s Foreign Press Association...
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
We definitely live in dark times. Increasingly, Catholic dogma is coming under attack even within the Church. Just recently, Bill Tammeus, a Presbyterian elder and former columnist for The Kansas City Star, writng for the National Catholic Reporter online, complained that, "Ultimately, truth in Christianity is not a doctrine, not a dogma, not a creed, not a papal bull, not what's said in a sermon, not even the...
Monday, July 2, 2012
It was Father Vincent Miceli who warned that, "Once the liturgy is humanized, Christ the Center and Object of it becomes the humanist par excellence, the liberator, the revolutionary, the Marxist ushering in the millenium; he ceases to be the Divine Redeemer. We must be alerted to those who plan, by convincing us to abandon our sacred forms, at length to seduce us into denying our Christian faith altogether. The Church is attacked by...
Sunday, July 1, 2012
Some years ago, a faithful and dedicated priest decided to leave the Diocese of Worcester and become a Chaplain for the United States Army. During a conversation back in 2000, this priest-friend told me that he had had enough of the nonsense within the diocese. This was after he presided over a graveside service for my father.This same faithful priest has a letter in this week's "Catholic" [when they feel like it] Free Press. As usual, it is an excellent letter. But then, this priest reads the life of Jesus Christ. ...
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