Category: Catholic Corner
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The Montini-Maritain-Alinksy Connection
Strange bedfellows In an interview with Playboy Magazine very shortly before his death from a heart attack in 1972 at the age of 63, which interview is part of a declassified FBI file, the man Maritain asked to pray for him declared that he would unhesitatingly choose hell over heaven: PLAYBOY: Having accepted your own mortality,…
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Why There Probably Won’t Be a Serious Inquiry into Priestly Pederasty
Steven Hayward: Such an inquiry would require journalists to probe into matters that run afoul of liberal orthodoxy today. It is one thing to probe into bad behavior from unpopular and easily demonized cardinals. Blowing open a cover-up is standard Watergate Journalism 101. It’s another thing to open the door to uncomfortable questions about sexual…
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Bergoglio is a Joke
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday called for concrete action to combat the “emergency” of plastics littering seas and oceans, lamenting the lack of effective regulation to protect the world’s waters. And then there is this: VATICAN CITY—In his first public statement on the horrifying, devastating report on sexual abuse within the Catholic…
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Pederasty Primarily, not Pedophilia, and Bergoglio’s Role
Damning: Unfortunately, however, Benedict’s successor was Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina – the man who calls himself Pope Francis. As a Belgian cardinal named Gottfried Daneels – who had been removed as an archbishop because he had covered up pederasty on the part of another Belgian cardinal and had come out in support of contraception,…
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On Loss of Faith in the Roman Catholic Church
Rod Dreher writes, At the risk of oversharing, the most painful thing about covering the scandal from 2002 until I left the Catholic Church in 2006 was losing my Catholic faith, which had been at the center of my life since my conversion in 1993. If I have the story right, Mr. Dreher has moved…
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From McTaggart to Rome
Peter Geach, Truth and Hope, University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, p. 9: Soaking myself in McTaggart, I imbibed a desire for Heaven and eternal life, which of course I had not to abandon on becoming Catholic; and meanwhile I was preserved from giving my heart with total devotion to some less worthy end, as I…
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Publishing Slang: Graf
Paragraph. Example: I know y’all are worn out by all my takes on the Catholic abuse scandal, but if you can stand it, Megan McArdle’s column on it is worth reading. This graf jumped out at me:
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Bishops Without Chests
And the hits keep coming.
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And Still More Corruption
The PA Catholic Sex Abuse Horror There ought to be a moratorium on the admission of homosexuals into the seminaries. Granted, the homosexual propensity is not sinful, only the exercise. But given the current level of corruption in the seminaries and in the Church in general, a moratorium on the admission of homosexuals would be…
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Maximilian Kolbe
Today is the feast of Maximilian Kolbe. Although it is a deep and dangerous illusion of the Left to suppose that man is inherently good and that it is merely such contingent and remediable factors as environment, opportunity, upbringing and the like that prevent the good from manifesting itself, there are a few human beings…
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Corruption in the Roman Church: What is to be Done?
Rod Dreher continues his relentless exposure of the deep corruption in the Roman Catholic Church. In his latest installment, The Cancer of the Cover-Up Mentality, Dreher reports on the unsolved 1969 murder of the young nun, Sister Cathy Cesnik. In his August 11th entry, The Church's Coming Catastrophe, we find in Update 2 good advice…
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The Death of Richard Sipe
Rod Dreher continues his commentary on the deep corruption within the Roman Catholic Church. Here is Sipe's website. And if you can stomach it, Frank Keating on the Catholic Bishops Today. Related: Abortion and the Wages of Concupiscence Unrestrained
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Is the Pope Catholic?
Not any more.
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The Catholic Cave-In to Leftist Claptrap
This is getting boringly predictable, and predictably boring. Here is yet another example, St Mary's College of California. . . . administrators encourage students to equate opinions with personal identity. Disagreement is not just disagreement—it is an attack. Staff in the Mission and Ministry Center, the Intercultural Center, and the New Student and Family Programs encourage…
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Is William Kilpatrick Too Soft on Pope Francis?
Dr. Vito Caiati writes, I read your post on “The Church and Islam: Dangerous Illusions,” and while I share your appreciation of Kilpatrick’s continuing commentary on the real nature of Islam, I am uncomfortable with his statement that “It seems clear to me that the pope and others in the hierarchy are enabling the spread…