In a previous post, see here, I noted how Father Leo-Paul LeBlanc, the pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish in Winchendon, Massachusetts, dismissed the very idea that God sends punishments (or chastisements) and that these often take the form of natural disasters or storms. Katrina should not be interpreted as a punishment or chastisement, according to Fr. LeBlanc, because "God doesn't work that way."A couple of ugly comments have been left at this Blog asserting that I am a "religious nut" for believing that storms and other natural...
Friday, March 29, 2013
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Surpreme Court Justice Elena Kagan, responding to Charles Cooper, the lawyer defending Proposition 8, the California "gay marriage" ban, after he insisted that the primary purpose of marriage is procreation, responded sarcastically, "..if the couple - I can assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage." See here.Yes, it's entirely true that people marry for a variety...
Monday, March 25, 2013
Many Catholics today, priests and laity as well as consecrated religious, possess a lust for innovation which they use to assault the stability of sacred rites. Referring to these liturgical terrorists who seek to violently replace divine forms with their own reckless innovations, John Henry Cardinal Newman warned that, "No one can really respect religion and insult its forms. Granted that forms are not immediately from God, still long use has made them divine to us; for the spirit of religion has so penetrated and quickened them, that...
Friday, March 22, 2013
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Miguel Woites, a confidant of Pope Francis while he served as Archbishop of Buenos Aires, is denying that the Holy Father ever endorsed homosexual civil unions as an alternative to same-sex "marriage." Such was the claim of The New York Times. See here.Even those who produce The New York Times should know better than that. But then the newspaper hasn't exactly been a bastion of journalistic integrity. Pope Francis would never have endorsed...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Code of Canon Law states clearly that, "The ordinary minister of Holy Communion is a bishop, a presbyter, or a deacon. The extraordinary minister of Holy Communion is an acolyte or other member of the Christian faithful deputed in accord with Can. 230.3"No lay person who distributes Holy Communion should ever be referred to as a "eucharistic minister." But some within the Church insist upon doing so because they wish to blur the line...
Monday, March 18, 2013
You have to hand it to Charles St. Amand, the editor of the Sentinel & Enterprise, a local newspaper serving the Leominster-Fitchburg area as well as seven other cities and towns. The man is most consistent. When it comes to articles and editorials which touch upon the Catholic Church in particular and Catholicism in general, Mr. St. Amand never troubles himself with getting the facts straight. See here for example.Take yesterday's editorial entitled, "Francis: Whose shoes will he fill?" We read: "With the election...
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Praise be to Jesus, we have a new Pope. And he has chosen the name Francis. Whether he chose this name because of Francis Xavier or after St. Francis of Assisi, the choice is most significant. For the Jesuit Order was founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola and based largely upon the revolutionary spirituality of St. Francis of Assisi.And so, at a time when the Church finds herself in crisis (and she has weathered other storms through...
Monday, March 11, 2013
Partners in charity or partners in sin?"If any one comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into the house or give him any greeting; for he who greets him shares his wicked work." (2 John 10, 11).The Navarre Bible (which I highly recommend) provides some excellent commentary on this scriptural passage: "In the Middle East, hospitality and greetings were not mere marks of courtesy or good manners: they involved a real sense...
Monday, March 4, 2013
On November 5, 1977, in a locution to Father Stefano Gobbi, Our Lady, referring to the purification to come (and which we're beginning to live through now), said, "Do not stop to consider the ever thickening darkness, the sin which has been set up as the norm of human action, the suffering which is mounting to its peak and the chastisement which this humanity is preparing with its own hands."Father Leo-Paul LeBlanc, the pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish in Winchendon, like many of his contemporaries within the Diocese of Worcester and beyond,...
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