Blessed Feast of the Ascension, especially for those of you in Boston, Hartford, New York, Newark, Philadelphia and the State of Nebraska where it is still actually celebrated today!
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Pope St. Pius X
1903-1914 "With truly lamentable results, our age, casting aside all restraint in its search for the ultimate causes of things, frequently pursues novelties so ardently that it rejects the legacy of the human race."
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Excellent Online Classes for Catholic Homeschoolers!
Featured posts of 2011
- Christ's Descent into Hell
- Top Ten Careers for Catholics
- Law and Tradition
- What Day Was Jesus Really Born?
- Speeding Up to Slow Down
- Liturgical Minimalism Hurts the Poor
- Is Gandhi in Hell?
- Authority Over Demons in the Early Church
- A Federalist Solution to Abortion
- The Homosexual Compromise
- Reliability of the Fathers
- The Assumption: Not a Question of History
- Books That Won't Imperil the Soul
- The JustFaith Program is NOT Catholic
- St. Augustine did not Invent Original Sin
- "I am of Paul; I am of Apollos"
- Rob Bell: Stressing the Fault Lines of Protestantism
- French Clergy in the Age of Louis XVI
- Program for Parish Renewal
- Priestless Parishes as a fait accompli?
- Last Supper and Liturgy
Featured posts of 2010
- The Benedict Condom Debacle
- Vocation of the Catholic Blogger
- Scriptural defense of our Lady's Perpetual Virginity
- Dogma "ex voce"
- Koran burning stupidity
- Head coverings "because of the angels"
- Signum Crucis in the Mass
- The phrase "works of the law" in the New Testament
- Catechism on Armed Resistance
- Communion straw men
- How to run a successful RCIA program
- Christ's Ascension
- Pius XII, Teilhard and Ratzinger
- Connection between homosexuality and the sex abuse scandal
- True source of political authority (Anselm)
- "Saved through childbearing"
- Why go to Mass?
- Fantasy Magic and the Christian Author
- John Zmirak on converts
- Oprah and the "jealousy" of God
- Sin in the Movies
Pope St. Hilary I (461-468)
Feb. 28
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Featured Posts of 2009
- Courtship and Dating
- Love and Matrimony
- Western Civilization: Catholic & Conservative Approaches
- The Personal Nature of Charitable Giving
- The Infallibility of Canonizations
- The tired old "fruits" argument
- Does the Church need the charismatic renewal?
- Conflicting Passover chronologies?
- Atmosphere of Faith
- A Monarchial Dilemma
- Consequentialism or Providence?
- Why Israel is not Israel
- Papal Masses as Liturgical Paradigms
- Enough about Roman roads!
- Charismatic vs. Institutional? Not that simple...
Featured Posts of 2008
- The semantics of reform
- Vatican II and religious liberty
- Dictation
- Did anything happen in 1054?
- Some more garbage on dismantling historic churches
- Homeschooling and dating
- TLM & NO: Are they really the same?
- Reflection on Tradition
- "We agree on essentials"
- A case study in interreligious dialogue
- Lamentabili Sane & Evolution
- The end of politics
- Prayer is not intrinsically powerful
- Voting is not intrinsically good
- On being good stewards of our resources
- Happy 43rd Anniversary to Dei Verbum!
Chesterton Says
"Americans may go mad when they make laws, but they recover their reason when they disobey them." What I Saw in America
Featured Posts of 2007
- Rome was no accident
- Crossroads of Ecumenism
- The Canonical Principle of Epiky
- The Evangelical Power of the Faith
- Is sin inevitable?
- Avoid the National Catholic Youth Conference
- Catholic fascination with Jewish customs
- "My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken Me?"
- Hermeneutic of Exceptions
- Ecumenical import of the TLM
- Confession behind the screen
- The Old Mass is more Meritorious than the New
- Losing our Liturgical Innocence
- Is liturgy really that big a deal?
- St. Louis IX on Interreligious Dialogue
- Ambiguity in Vatican II Documents
- Democratization and the Church
JPII on Holy Communion
"To touch the Sacred Species with their own hands and to distribute them is a privilege of the Ordained" (Dominicae Cenae, no. 11).
On the Church and the World...
Our Writings
- The Charismatic Experience (Anselm)
- Homosexuality, Slavery and the Holocaust (Boniface)
- Expiation through Blood (Anselm)
- The Dereliction of Christ (Anselm)
- The Glory of the Cross (Anselm)
- "My kingdom is not of this world" (an essay on chiliasm, by Boniface)
- Apostolicae Curae of Leo XIII (Boniface)
- Homosexuality & Media (Boniface)
- The Kennedy Doctrine (Boniface)
- Ratzinger's Soteriology (Anselm)
Pope Pius XI (1922-1939)
"The enemies of the Church, who think that their time has come, will see that their joy was premature, and that they may close the grave they have dug" (Mit Brennender Sorge, 19 [1937]).
My Senior Theses
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet. Ps.119:105
Traditional Answers to Modern Difficulties in Scriptural Exegesis
- Two versions of Saul's death
- If suicide is wrong, why is Samson's suicide glorified?
- Does the Bible insinuate that David and Jonathan were gay?
- Prayer in Public Disallowed by Matt. 6:5?
- Saved through childbearing?
- On seeking and finding
- Marrying a Brother's Wife: Leviticus vs. Deuteronomy
- Conflicting Passover Chronologies
- Reincarnation in the Gospels?
- Reincarnation in the Book of Wisdom?
- Synthesizing the Resurrection Appearances
- Genocide in Joshua (part 1)
- Genocide in Joshua (part 2)
- Genocide in Joshua (part 3)
Where is the real Mt. Sinai?
Is the traditional site associated with St. Catherine's monastery really Mt. Sinai?
Obscure Saints: Reclaiming our Catholic Hagiographical Patrimony
Anselm's Posts on Soteriology
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
"We most humbly beseech Thee Almighty God, to command that these offerings be borne by the hands of Thy holy Angel to Thine altar on high in the sight of Thy Divine Majesty, that as many of us as at this altar shall partake of and receive the most holy Body and Blood of Thy Son, may be filled with every heavenly blessing and grace. Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen." -Supplices te Rogamus, from the Canon of the Mass (1962)
Ratko Peric, Bishop of Mostar-Duvno, Herzegovnia
"It is therefore forbidden to claim or to declare in churches and religious communities that Our Lady has appeared or will yet appear in Medjugorje." Seat of Wisdom, by Bishop Peric, 1995
The Medjugorje Deception
- Non-Catholic receives Holy Communion; lauded as "miraculous"
- Bishop Gemma: Medjugorje "diabolical"
- Bishop Peric's Latest Statement (2004)
- Bishop Zanic: The Truth about Medjugorje (1)
- Bishop Zanic: The Truth about Medjugorje (2)
- Bishop Zanic: The Truth about Medjugorje (3)
- Medjugorje Rumblings (11/09)
- New Directives - Sept. 2009
- Fr. Vlasic Laicized
- Bishop Sartain on 'Unapproved Seers'
- Did John Paul II Approve of Medjugorje?
- The clockwork apparition of Ivan Dragicevic
- The "fruits" argument
- BXVI to make "Directory" to judge apparitions
- CDF condemns Fr. Vlasic
- Vatican to denounce Medjugorje
- Medjugorje promotes indifferentism
- How to Judge Private Revelation
- The Biographies of the "Seers"
- The Absurd Messages of Medjugorje
- Mary says we must believe to be "accepted"?
Where is the Ark of the Covenant?
Boniface's List of Books That Will Not Imperil Your Soul
- "Orthodoxy" by GK Chesterton
- "The End of the Present World" by Fr. Charles Arminjon
- "The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber" by Ralph Wiltgen
- "Conquest of Mexico" by William H. Prescott
- "Week of Salvation: History and Traditions of Holy Week" by James Monti
- "The Heresy of Formlessness" by Martin Mosebach
- "The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas" by Etienne Gilson
- "The Reform of the Roman Liturgy" by Msgr. Klaus Gamber
- "Tradition and the Church" by Msgr. George Agius
- "The Possessed" by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- "The Philosophical Act" by Josef Pieper
- "Heretics" by G.K. Chesterton
- "Mere Christianity" by C.S. Lewis
- "Liturgical Timebombs" by Michael Davies
Magisterial Documents Every Catholic Should Know
- "A Quo Primum" of Benedict XIV (1751)
- "Aeterni Patris" of Pope Leo XIII (1879)
- "Apostolicae Curae" of Pope Leo XIII (1896)
- "Humani Generis" of Pope Pius XII (1950)
- "Lamentabili Sane" of Pope St. Pius X (1907)
- "Litaniae Sanctorum"
- "Longinqua" of Pope Leo XIII (1895) "On Catholicism in the United States"
- "Mortalium Animos" of Pope Pius XI (1928)
- "Oath Against Modernism" of Pope St. Pius X (1910)
- "Pascendi Dominici Gregis" of Pope St. Pius X
- "Pastor Aeternus", Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ, Vatican I (1870)
- "Quicumque Vult"
- "Quo Primum" pf Pope St. Pius V (1570)
- "Replies of the Pontifical Biblical Commission" (1907-1948)
- "Syllabus of Errors" of Pope Piux IX (1864)
- "Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae" of Pope Leo XIII (1899)
- CDF Doctrinal Assessment of the LCWR (2012)
Excellent Catholic Articles
- "Assisi Revisited" by Stephen McInerny
- The Saints on the Reality of Hell
- "Patroness of the Feenyites" by Francisco J. Romero Carrasquillo
- "Modern Theology and Biblical Criticism" by C.S. Lewis
- "Popes and Slavery: Setting the Record Straight: by Fr. Joel S. Panzer
- "The Communion Fast: A Reconsideration" by Ed Peters
- "All Parishes", an interview with Cardinal Hoyos
- "The Merit of a Mass" by Fr. Chad Ripperger, FSSP
- "Why don't they want us to kneel?" by Helen Hull Hitchcock
- "Rethinking Communion in the Hand" by Jude Huntz
- "Ritus Narcissus" by Fr. Paul Scalia
- "Could Limbo be Abolished?" by Fr. Brian W. Harrison
- "Can you be refused Holy Communion if you kneel?" by Cathy Caridi
- "Towards a Christian Understanding of Academic Freedom" by Fr. Paul Quay, SJ
- "Medjugorie After Twenty-One Years" by Michael Davies
- "The Sad State of Liturgical Music" by Thomas G. McFaul
- "The Ottaviani Intervention" by Cardinals Ottaviani & Bacci
- "SSPX in schism? Alright, out with it!" by Ryan Grant
- "Capital Punishment: The Case for Justice" by J. Budziszewski
- "On the Unity of Holy Orders" by Fr. Ripperger
Favorite Saints' Writings (links to complete texts)
- "Cur Deus Homo?" of St. Anselm
- "Cyprian Project", the complete works of Cyprian of Carthage online
- "Ecclesiastical History of the English People" by St. Bede
- "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" of Ven. J. Henry Newman
- "Forty Dreams of St. John Bosco" by St. John Bosco
- "Interior Castle" by St. Teresa of Avila
- "Life of St. Benedict" of Pope St. Gregory the Great
- "Life of St. Louis IX" by the Lord Jean de Joinville
- "On the Incarnation of the Word" by St. Athanasius
- "St. Patrick's Breastplate" of St. Patrick
- "Story of a Soul" by St. Therese of Lisieux
- "Summa Theologica" of St. Thomas Aquinas
- "True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin" of St. Louis Marie de Montfort
Links to Other Great Sites & Blogs
- Rorate Caeli
- The New Theological Movement
- The Grand Inquisitive (decent Orthodox blog)
- Alleluia Audio Books
- Philothea on Phire
- The Virtuous House
- Dymphna's Road
- List of Plenary Indulgences
- Epitaphs of the Catacombs (through the 4th century)
- St. Conleth's Catholic Heritage Association (Ireland)
- Passing Shadow
- Lavare Pedes
- Our Magnum Opus
- Paths of Love
- Merin Essi ar Quentelil (Elvish name lists)
- Headline Bistro (news site run by K of C)
- The blog of St. Josaphat Parish (Detroit)
- Vultus Christi
- Popin'' Ain't Easy
- The Gregorian Rite
- The Catholic Liturgical Library
- Fisheaters
- Cruzamante (for Spanish speaking Trads)
- The Cross Reference
- Rorate Caeli
- The Benedict Blog (formerly Ratzinger Fan Club)
- Whispers in the Loggia
- Ite ad Thomam
- Sancta Missa (Canons Regular of St. John Cantius)
- Los Pequenos de Cristo
- Joy (musings of a music minister)
- Verbum
- American Papist
- Sensus Traditionis
- Adoremus Bulletin
- Fr. Zuhlsdorf
- Coalition Ecclesia Dei
- Denzinger (English)
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1917)
- The New Liturgical Movement
- Jimmy Akin's Blog
Cardinal Ottaviani: "Recent reforms have amply demonstrated that fresh changes in the liturgy could lead to nothing but complete bewilderment on the part of the faithful who are already showing signs of restiveness and of an indubitable lessening of faith...errors against the Faith are not so much insinuated but rather an inevitable consequence of liturgical abuses and aberrations which have been given equal recognition. To abandon a liturgical tradition which for four centuries was both a sign and pledge of unity of worship is, we feel in conscience bound to proclaim, an incalculable error."
Pope Pius XII: "I hear all around me innovators who want to dismantle the Holy Chapel, destroy the universal flame of the Church, throw away her ornaments, give her a remorse of her historical past. Well my dear friend, I have the conviction that the Church of Peter must assume her past or she will dig her own grave."
2 comments:
And in Austria!
I really hate not having the Holy Days celebrated on the real day, just another example of how our religion has been moved to the back burner.
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