It would seem that a new heresy is being created before our very eyes. What is this new heresy? If Arianism was named after the priest and theologian Arius, who championed the denial of Christ’s divinity, it seems fitting to call our present corruption of Catholic belief, “Kasperism” – inasmuch as it has been promoted most vigorously by…
[NB: To understand why I refer to the synod as a “language event”, please refer to this post of mine from a couple days ago, which presents remarks made by Abp. Mark Coleridge in a press conference at the synod.] Ultimately it was hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving the higher…
…comes to us from Bishop Fellay of the SSPX. You know, those guys. The ones who sit aloof in the corner while the cool kids at the dance dish fantastic gossip about. “Did you hear that they’re, like, in schism? Whatever that means!” “They had a really bad breakup with the pope in the 1970s. Totes not even…
We were terrified beyond all else by the disastrous state of human society today. For who can fail to see that society is at the present time, more than in any past age, suffering from a terrible and deeprooted malady which, developing every day and eating into its inmost being, is dragging it to destruction?…
OK, not really. But we did all participate in a panel discussion on the Synod which aired on public radio today. I was a guest on the Public Radio Internation program, To The Point. Host Warren Olney led us through a number of questions about the just-concluded Ordinary Synod of the Family in Rome. As you might…
The impact of Origen, as a catechist and biblical commentator, rocked the Church for at least three centuries, causing strife over a host of doctrinal and pastoral issues. Many of his views were condemned by the Church at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553. Much of the problem was that, because Origen had written so much,…
This morning I was invited to be a guest on HuffPo Live, to do some Synod analysis. Here’s the relevant segment: (Original Source: HuffPo Live.) This afternoon, I’ll also be a panelist on the Public Radio International program, To the Point. Other guests will be Fr. James Martin, publisher of America Magazine; Fr. Thomas Rausch from Loyola…
Munkácsy Mihály: “Ecce Homo!” (1896) “[W]hen asked how he would like to be remembered, Francis simply responded: ‘As a good guy. … I hope they say: “He was a good guy who tried to do good.” I have no other aspirations.’” — Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. (Breitbart.com, May 25, 2015) “‘I do not like the word…
“When the Divine founder decreed that the Church should be one in faith, in government, and in communion, He chose Peter and his successors as the principle and centre, as it were, of this unity.” — Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum §15 (1896) “[I]t is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity by…
Education, from the Latin ex-ducere, means “to lead out”—so the logical question is, lead out from what? From ignorance, error, and sin, into knowledge, truth, and holiness. It is a reflection of the journey of Israel, led from slavery in Egypt to freedom in Canaan. True education presupposes the Christian revelation of man’s fallen plight and…
