An old departed friend of Saint Benedict Center is happily remembered on the web site of the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest. Father Paul Wickens, who championed the innocence of children by combating compulsory “sex education” in Catholic schools, was the founder of Saint Anthony’s Chapel in West Orange, New Jersey. The chapel [...]
The police department of Houston, Texas, gave the following ten rules for raising delinquent children.
1. Begin with infancy to give the child everything he wants. In this way he will grow up to believe the world owes him a living.
2. When he picks up bad words, laugh at him. This will make him think [...]
[Ten Dates Every Catholic Should Know: The Divine Surprises and Chastisements that Shaped the Church and Changed the World by Diane Moczar, Ph D. Sophia Institute Press, 2005]
Please pardon my enthusiasm, but I loved this book! It was a great read the first time around, and even more exciting and interesting the second. In just [...]
An update on our latest Ad Rem is in order. We have received several inquiries from interested persons, and replies to the commoner questions are now given on the Conference Site. For your convenience, we reproduce the questions below, with links.
We are not yet ready to post an itinerary, but some stops on the tour [...]
Anne Hendershott has an article in the on-line Wall Street Journal about Caroline Kennedy and the Kennedy family politicians’ predilection for abortion. She writes of the 1964 meeting at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport, Mass., the colloquium wherein the Kennedy politicos were coached on the Pharisaical sophistries involved in being pro-abortion as a politician while [...]
“But as many as received him, he gave them power to be made the sons of God, to them that believe in his name.” (John 1:12)
On this Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus, it was my privilege to hear the best sermon on the Holy Name that I’ve ever heard. It included a deep [...]
When Blessed Pope Pius IX summoned the First Vatican Council in 1869 the world was somewhat mystified. There had not been an ecumenical council since Trent (1545-1563). The nineteenth century had brought a new factor into the equation of church/state relations: the media. “What was the Vatican up to?” queried the pundits. “Are all the [...]
The great Catholic priest, convert, and poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., was so affected by the sinking, in 1875, of a German ship, the Deutschland, in a storm off the coast of Bremen, and the heroism of five Franciscan sisters on board who died in the tragedy, that he wrote what he considered his [...]
The Battle of Lepanto commenced between the roughly equal number of men and ships off the coast of Corinth, Greece, after a traditional and formalized ceremony. Both Muslims and Christians had about 30,000 men and slightly over two hundred vessels each. The lines of ships faced one another, one side firing one cannon shot. If [...]
One of the presidents of the American United Steel Workers Union was a very devout Catholic. He was Phillip Murray (1886-1952), an Irishman whose family emigrated from Scotland in 1902 when he was sixteen years old. Murray, who had worked with his father in the coal mines, figured prominently in advocating the rights of workmen, [...]
“Are all the bishops of the world going to Rome for a secret conference?”