09 Thursday Sep 2010
Posted in Articles Published in Other Venues
<Originally Published on: Jan. 10 2009 >
This is an update on the February-March Catholic America Tour. (If you have not read it, please take a look at Ad Rem No. 95 for the announcement of the road trip.)
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.
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02 Thursday Sep 2010
Posted in Apologetics, Articles Published in Other Venues
Originally published on <Jan. 4, 2009>
“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. Continue reading
26 Thursday Aug 2010
Posted in Articles Published in Other Venues, Mariology
Tomorrow, December 18, is a feast of long standing in the Latin Church. Though its Mass and office will not be offered liturgically in most places (owing to its not being a universal feast), the “Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary” has origins going back at least to seventh-century Spain. Continue reading
29 Thursday Jul 2010
(“This is indeed the Saviour of the world.” John 4:42)
Fools miss the sublime truths of Holy Scripture. While the story of Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman is one of the most well known episodes in Holy Scripture, few are they that understand its teachings. Outside the Catholic Church, there are none who understand it properly. Inside the Church, there are precious few that see in it a deep and strong assertion of the truths of the Faith they profess. Still fewer are those who live the lessons disclosed in it. This article, which relies heavily on the commentaries of insightful Catholics – members of the Church Militant or Triumphant — is an attempt to bring those outside the Church in, and those inside to a fuller appreciation of how and to what depth this account is an affirmation of their Faith. Continue reading
15 Thursday Jul 2010
Originally published on <Dec. 9, 2008 >
The marketing department at Planned Parenthood has become positively tasteless. Abortion, the killing of an unborn human, has been made the subject of a gift certificate at Christmas time. “What do you get for the girl who has everything — including something she doesn’t want? Why, an abortion, of course!” Continue reading
01 Thursday Jul 2010
Originally published on <November 25, 2008>
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, we put no credence in those lacking the Church’s approbation. Since this apparition is approved, and since it has a message for the Church in America, we consider it worthy of attention, especially now. Continue reading
17 Thursday Jun 2010
St. Francis de Sales, the Bishop of Geneva, was responsible for the conversion of Lady Stafford, a Protestant noble woman, who had formerly been intransigent in her opposition to the Catholic Faith. After going to one of his Masses, she was moved to consider the Faith in more friendly terms, but she still harbored great feelings of hostility, especially regarding the doctrine of Purgatory. Continue reading