Not afraid to call a spade a spade, and deeply grounded in the Scriptures and the fathers of the Church, the scrappy and erudite Cardinal Giacomo Biffi has done it again. When his last book was published, we wrote Cardinal Biffi’s Bombshell. With his recent publication of Pecore e Pastori (Sheep and Shepherds), the good Cardinal has proven that there is more shock and awe left in his arsenal, and he’s delivered the ordinance right on target.
Perhaps the oldest devotion to Our Lady in Europe is the devotion to Our Lady of the Pillar. In Spain, Pilar is a popular girl’s name, as is Mercedes for Our Lady of Mercy. (In fact, General Franco named one of his daughters Pilar, just as one of the Carmelite Martyrs written of in this [...]
When the Apostles divided the earth and drew lots for their portions, Spain fell to Saint James the Greater. The seeds he sowed grew well, and the roots of the Faith in Spain go deep. Upon his return to Jerusalem in AD 42, Herod Agrippa I had him beheaded. His body was taken back to [...]
This is a very interesting article, not only because it authenticates Antonio Gramsci’s conversion, but because it highlights his strategy for Communizing all Europe. In order to do that, Gramsci insisted that the Church, the new order’s main enemy, would have to be infiltrated and destroyed from within.
Madrid, Dec 2, 2008 / 08:11 pm [...]
We received news yesterday on the death of Brother Dominic Maria, O.S.C.O. Brother was an early member of Saint Benedict Center and a convert of Father Feeney’s from Protestantism. He was a Harvard student and the scion of the famous Morgan family (J.P. was a grand-uncle). Our own Brother Francis (Dr. Fakhri Maluf) was his [...]
An offense is measured, not by the one who gives it, but by the one who receives it. While it certainly would be wrong for anyone to strike a neighbor, it would be a much greater wrong to strike the Pope, the President, or some other prominent individual.
When Adam and Eve sinned, they offended God. [...]
I had heard of Stevenson’s defense of Father Damien many years ago, but only recently came across the actual letter that he wrote to the Rev. Dr. Hyde, the Blessed’s unworthy calumniator. Pope John Paul II beatified Father Damien de Veuster in 1995. His feast day, May 10, is a state holiday in Hawaii. [...]
To all our readers: Happy Thanksgiving! And lest you think that heathens and heretics dining on maize and turkey is the historical “first Thanksgiving” in America, we present a myth-shattering article by Adam Miller, who truly tells the story of “The First Thanksgiving.” (Hint: It was Catholic!)
Today is also the feast of the Miraculous Medal. [...]
Of all the words, exclamations, and clichés that grew out of anti-catholic bigotry, it is the word “dunce” that is the most ridiculous misnomer. It is derived from the name of one of the greatest scholastic thinkers of the Middles Ages, Duns Scotus, a Franciscan theologian, philosopher, and logician. He taught at Oxford [...]
Everyone knows that Protestants do not venerate saints. Nevertheless, sometimes they canonize their own by naming places after some local denizen that they feel deserves the title. At least five cities in the U.S.A. testify to the rather strange anomaly: St. Paul, Texas, is named after W.H. Paul; St. James, Missouri, is named after Thomas [...]
Brian Kelly has written on this site about Our Lady of America and her apparitions to the holy religious in Ohio, Sister Mary Ephrem (Mildred Neuzil). These apparitions are approved by the Church, as the recent canonical study of the case by Archbishop Burke testifies. While there are many supposed apparitions which claim our attention, [...]
Catholic World News (CWN) reports: “US Catholics tilt left, Pew survey finds.” The recent Pew Forum study under discussion “shows that many self-described American Catholics ignore Church teachings on both theological and social issues.”
Says CWN:
In its follow-up report, comparing the beliefs and practices of America’s major religious groups, the Pew Forum found that 48% of Catholic respondents favor legal abortion (16% in all cases, 32% in most cases), while only 18% agree that abortion should always be illegal. A substantial majority of the Catholics polled — 58% — said that society should accept homosexuality.
On theological issues, only 16% of American Catholics believe that the Church is the one true means of salvation , the Pew Forum found. (By comparison, 36% of the Evangelical respondents chose that answer.) An overwhelming 79% of the Catholics said that many different faiths could lead to eternal life.
Reading that should alarm us. No matter how one slices and dices Church teaching, even the most tendentious reading of “no salvation outside the Church” cannot make it mean that “many different faiths could lead to eternal life” or that “the Church is [not] the one true means of salvation.” In other words, honesty, logic, and Faith forbid anyone to take the “no” out of “no salvation outside the Church.” Yet that is what 84% of “American Catholics” do .
Which leaves 16% who have not bowed their knees to the Baal of indifferentism. I am well familiar with the old quip about statistics — “There are lies, [darned] lies, and statistics” — and many polls seem carefully crafted to tell people what to think rather than to discover what they actually think. However, does the common experience of anybody really allow us to question these statistics, unless it be to challenge their optimism ?
As a friend commented, “It’s just another bit of evidence showing why the Saint Benedict [Center] Crusade is more important than ever.” It certainly makes us feel that we have our work cut out for us. Ultimately though, it will be the Holy See, specifically the Holy Father, who champions the cause. His work is cut out for him, and now he needs our prayers and support perhaps more than ever.
“I don’t know how it happened, but I saw the Holy Father in a very big house, kneeling by a table, with his head buried in his hands, and he was weeping. Outside the house, there were many people. Some of them were throwing stones, others were cursing him and using bad language. Poor Holy Father, we must pray very much for him. ” — Blessed Jacinta of Fatima
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