From The Book of Lemaitrians, Chapter 1, Verses 1 & 2: In the beginning was the dot, no larger than the end of a human hair. When it exploded, that dot released everything that exists and has ever existed in …
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Jesuit Craters, Jesuits Cratering, and Margaret Sanger on Venus
By William Po In 2013, Francis, the first Jesuit pope, canonized the Jesuit Peter Faber (1506-1546) who, with founder St. Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556), St. Francis Xavier (1506-1552) and four others, vowed poverty, chastity and obedience on Montmartre in 1534 in …
Out of the 1970’s Frying Pan, into the Modern-Age Fire?
In a hole in the ground there lived a Catholic. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with liturgical dancing and felt banners, nor yet a dry, bare, ungodly hole with modern Jesuits and new pathways: it was a Catholic-hole, …
The Xiphoid Polemic: Denying the Devil’s Due
Strength without leverage is nothing. Even Samson at his power’s peak could not have budged a massive object in a vacuum: he’d simply push himself backwards into empty space. Likewise, an intellect ungrounded in history can only bounce aimlessly off …
Vanquishing the “Magisterium of the Mirror”: On Knowing and Doing the Right Thing
“Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” -The Evil Queen in Snow White “Remember the Lord in everything you do, and He will show you the right way” -Proverbs 3:6 Precis: The right …
Clergy, Bishops “Ashamed” of The Church For Refusing to Bless Same-Sex Couples Highlights Church’s Tolerance of Open Schism
On Monday, I shared my concerns that the Pope Francis-approved CDF denial of blessings for same-sex couples would follow the same path as their similar reply to the question on intercommunion. Both times, the CDF said the thing in question …
Vatican Nixes German Plan for Same-Sex Blessings, But All I Feel is Déjà Vu
The CDF has, to the delight of many, smacked down an initiative from the German bishops to bless same-sex unions with a signoff from the pope. As reported today by The Pillar: The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith …
On Those Catholics “Obsessed” with the 1950s
“Honey, have you seen my corduroy blazer?” I ask my wife as we prepare to leave for Mass. “Yes dear. I saw it next to Jimmy’s beanie,” she affectionately replies. She too is preparing for Mass. Her Christian Dior dress …
Vatican Suppresses Private Masses at St. Peter’s Basilica – Priests Respond
This morning, I awoke to a message from an associate in Asia. He writes: “I know you don’t want to write negative stuff anymore, but this is terrible. No more private Masses in St. Peter’s. So many altars will be …
Halfway Through The Tunnel: Catholic Manhood In Middle Age
Memento Mori is an ancient monastic expression that has had a bit of a gothy rebranding and promotion in the Catholic underground. Of course, the nomenclature is timeless and sound–we are all going to die, and we should live as …
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