Category: Catholic Corner
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Thomas Merton on the Destruction of the Liturgy
It was with no excess of charity that I described Merton the other day as "a flabby liberal both politically and theologically." So let me balance that out a bit with a quotation from Volume Five (1963 – 1965) of his Journal. Here is an excerpt from the entry of 13 April 1965, Tuesday in…
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John Henry Newman and the Problem of Private Judgment
Onsi A. Kamel (First Things, October 2019): The issue of ecclesiastical authority was trickier for me. I recognized the absurdity of a twenty-year-old presuming to adjudicate claims about the Scriptures and two thousand years of history. Newman’s arguments against private judgment therefore had a prima facie plausibility for me. In his Apologia, Newman argues that…
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At the San Gabriel Mission
Catacomb Joe and I grew up near the San Gabriel Mission. He sends the following as a visual comment on a couple of recent entries:
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Rod Dreher on Bergoglio’s Latest Termitic Outrage
Decline and fall is the way of the world. It's our turn now as institution after institution is captured by wokeassery and termitry. Sodomy in the Senate and among prelates. The presidency of a 'wokified' but unqualified plagiarist at Harvard. The huge numbers of destructive leftists and their usefully idiotic fellow travellers who support a…
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It Used to be Hard to be a Good Catholic
Substack latest. Another taste of John Fante with a bit of commentary. Tony Flood comments, "A priest is now authorized to bless the fornicating couple who recently befouled a Senate hearing room."
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Why Swim the Tiber?
A philosophy colleague I thought was Protestant has unbeknownst to me swum the Tiber. I asked him why. Here is part of his response, slightly redacted: My story is rather boring, I’d wager. Since my late teen years I was nonplussed with the lack of intellectual vigor in most Protestant denominations (Baptist, Methodist, etc.) I…
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Not the Least of Bergoglio’s Sins
He's destroyed the reply, "Is the Pope Catholic?"
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How to Tell the Impostor RCC from the Real Thing
The Roman Catholic Church with Bergoglio at its head is an impostor church. So William Kilpatrick asks: . . . how can one tell the imposter Church from the Church established by Christ? Although there are several indicators, the main giveaway, I believe, can be found in differing attitudes toward sin. The true Church takes…
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Performative Catholicism
Opening: Performative Catholicism has become the norm today, and the Rosary is the primary tool in the performance. President Joe Biden loves to show off his rosary, such as during a virtual conversation with Mexico’s President Lopez Obrador. Claiming his devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe—despite the fact that President Biden has promoted the most extreme pro-abortion policies…
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Which Side Are You On?
A video to help you decide. So a group of climate protesters decided to block a two-lane road in Nevada, but got a different response than usual from law enforcement. The best part of this X-File from “Climate Defiance” is the number of words that follow “words fail,” not to mention the irony of people…
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How is Such Moral Heroism Possible?
The example of Maximilian Kolbe
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The Destructive Bergoglio
At a time when we need our most venerable institutions to stand as bulwarks against the rising tide of wokery, what we find instead is capitulation. When the head of the ancient Roman church abdicates, we are surely in for it. Corruptio optimi pessima. Cardinal Pell vents his righteous fury at the Vatican's theological direction…
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Why Shouldn’t the Vatican Go ‘Woke’?
The RCC is already a joke with a clown at its head; why then should it not go 'woke'? It has needed defunding for a long time now. It is up to us to make it true that 'go woke, go broke.' Story here: VATICAN CITY — An unprecedented global canvassing of Catholics has called…
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Budweiser and the Roman Catholic Church
They have this much in common: they don't understand their respective clienteles. Who drinks Budweiser? Connoisseurs of the brewer's art? No. Different sorts, but mainly country folk, rednecks, Hillary's deplorables, and Barack Hussein Obama's "clingers" to guns and Bibles. So what were the head honchos thinking when they enlisted Dylan Mulvaney to promote their swill? …