Category: Catholic Corner
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Catholics Must Support Trump
It is astonishing that there are Catholics who vote Democrat, when the Dems are the abortion party, and lately and increasingly a threat to religious liberty to boot. How then could any practicing Catholic vote for Hillary or support Hillary by voting for neither Hillary nor Trump? So here's my final appeal on Election Day.…
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Anthony Esolen Under Fire at Providence College
More proof of the collapse of American universities and Catholic universities in particular. As a result of the abdication of authority on the part of administrators, 'Catholic' universities have become anti-Catholic leftist seminaries, hotbeds of cultural Marxism. Am I exaggerating? Read Rod Dreher's interview with Professor Esolen and see for yourself. Here is the message…
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Pope Francis and Climate Change
The man is a fool who disgraces the papacy. Add this piece of stupidity to the growing list. What is the role of George Soros in this? I'm just asking.
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Pope Francis and Islam
Which of the following is true? Francis outright lies about Islam; he is naive about Islam; he is an appeaser and defeatist who thinks that by not telling the truth about Islam he prevents further radicalization of Muslims. See The Church and Islam: The Next Cover-up Scandal Related articles The Danger of Appeasing the Intolerant…
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The Catholic Case for Donald Trump
The following is by Chris Jackson. I found it at The Remnant and I reproduce the whole of it here. It receives the coveted MavPhil nihil obstat. ……………………………. This is the most critical presidential election in the history of the United States. Hillary Clinton, a corrupt, radical pro-abortion, anti-Christian, career politician threatens to change the face of…
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Could a Catholic Support Trump?
Via Burgess-Jackson, I came to this piece by Robert P. George and George Weigel, An Appeal to Our Fellow Catholics (7 March 2016). Appended to it is a list of distinguished signatories. Excerpt: Donald Trump is manifestly unfit to be president of the United States. His campaign has already driven our politics down to…
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The Ever-Increasing Frenzy, Tension, and Explosiveness of This Country
Try to guess when the following was written, and by whom. Answer below the fold: Ever increasing frenzy, tension, explosiveness of this country. You feel it in the monastery with people like Raymond. In the priesthood with so many upset, one way or another, and so many leaving. So many just cracking up, falling apart.…
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Two Senses of ‘Mystery’ and McGinn’s Mysterianism
Joel Hunter writes, In the context of an exchange between a Catholic and a Protestant, I came across a quote of Gerard Manley Hopkins that reminded me of your posts on mysterianism. You do not mean by mystery what a Catholic does. You mean an interesting uncertainty: the uncertainty ceasing, interest ceases also. This happens…
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On Vatican II
My attitude has softened a bit since the following was written two and half years ago. But I'll leave it at full strength. Trenchancy of expression and all that. ……………………………….. There was something profoundly stupid about the Vatican II 'reforms' even if we view matters from a purely immanent 'sociological' point of view. Suppose Roman Catholicism…
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Prospects for Catholic-Muslim ‘Dialogue’ and the Foolishness of the Catholic Bishops
Robert Reilly is too politic to refer to the Catholic bishops as fools, so I'll do it for him. Not all of them are fools, of course, but many if not most, and not just on the topic of Islam, but on other topics as well, such as capital punishment. Reilly's recent Catholic Thing piece…
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Joe Biden, Exemplary Catholic
From The Catholic Thing: . . . the University of Notre Dame ha[s] awarded its prestigious 2016 Laetare Medal to Vice President Joe Biden – a man who is both a Catholic and at the same time one of the nation’s most conspicuous defenders of abortion rights and same-sex marriage. Disgusting. The solution? Revolt of the…
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What Sort of Prayer is Needed by the Desiccated Intellectual?
Which sort of prayer is appropriate for the proud intellectual? Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, The Three Ages of the Interior Life, vol. I (Catholic Way Publishing, 2013), p. 535: Some souls absolutely need prayer, intimate and profound prayer; another form of prayer will not suffice for them. There are very intelligent people whose character is difficult, intellectuals who…
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James V. Schall on the “True” Islam
Here. Excerpts: Lumen Gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Vatican II, states that the Mohammedans “profess their faith as the faith of Abraham, and with us they worship the one, merciful God who will judge men on the last day” (par 16). At first sight, that statement appears friendly and matter-of-fact; the “faith”…
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Mona Charen on the Left-Leaning Pope Francis
Here (emphasis added): According to "The Black Book of Communism," between 1959 and the late 1990s, more than 100,000 (out of about 10 million) Cubans spent time in the island's gulag. Between 15,000 and 19,000 were shot. One of the first was a young boy in Che Guevara's unit who had stolen a little food.…