Monday, 16 January 2012

APOSTOLICAM ACTUOSITATEM and the dumbing down of lay expectations

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Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity   click here On another blog, there is a discussion on the laity. Fr. Blake has started an importa...

Wow, from Rorate Caeli today--direct quote and see side link

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For the first time in decades, a  cerimoniere pontificio  -  Monsignor Marco Agostini , an official in the State Secretariat who has also be...

An Unusual, Controversial Catholic Subject-Celibacy in Marriage

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Now, I am not married, but I live a celibate life-style. However, I have an increasing number of friends, traditional Catholics, who have op...
Sunday, 15 January 2012

Among new friends in Dublin...

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archived photo of St. Kevin's I spent a lovely morning at the Tridentine Mass at St. Kevin's in Dublin and then had coffee and...
Saturday, 14 January 2012

Narcissism and the Costa Concordia

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Men did not make room for women and children   Click here for eyewitness report. Check this out. Chivalry is dead. Some of us have known t...

Illiteracy and religion, plus one of my favorite books

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I have been doing a mini-study for an article on illiteracy in 2012. I noticed something very interesting...Note the countries with the lowe...

I could not have said it better; thanks Mr. Voris, for the charity and clarity. Pray.

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Do we know longer believe in tough love, that is, love which is real it based on Truth and not on feel-good nicety-nicety? Pray for the bis...
Friday, 13 January 2012

More power to POTUS? I am Spartacus...

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Is Congress going to give Obama more power?    Where is the rebellion? Link above. This is scary. Why give POTUS more power for anything b...

New, not so revolutionary or reactionary, order at Maynooth

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St. Patrick's College, Maynooth has a few new items of order which will help the seminarians have an identity separate from the rest of...

Outgoing Ambassador Makes Statement RE: Ireland's Lack of Presence in Rome

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Ambassador Tim Fischer noted in the press today here in Ireland that the lack of a diplomat in Rome is a problem. Here is part of his statem...

The Hammer of the Heretics

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Today is the Feast of St. Hilary, Doctor of the Church, and Hammer of the Heretics. He was not afraid to excommunicate the Arians, possibly ...
Thursday, 12 January 2012

Homeland Security and You and Me

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Big Brother See the above link to Drudge Report and an article from The Atlantic Wire. Not only is this a waste of taxpayers' ...

Oh No, More Confusion Rippling Out from Chicago-the Fog and Murkiness of Political Correctness

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Ramifications of Cardinal George's Backtracking   Click here. Journals online and newspapers have been following Cardinal George's...
Wednesday, 11 January 2012

Sometimes, I prefer secular humanism...

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We are in the Post-Star Trek Age. Now, we have fallen into the age of superstition. Many of my fellow traddie Catholics are obsessed with pr...

God would not tell the Mayans something outside of Revelation

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Narcissism is destroying Japan

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Japan Narcissism can ruin a country. In Japan, on this link, one sees one of the reasons for the plunging birthrate.  Young people are not...

Two Real Men from Cabrini-Green-on victim thinking

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One of the reasons, and there are many, why I left academia, was this prevalence of victim thinking. Thankfully, if the "cases" in...
Tuesday, 10 January 2012

For Michael Voris, A Little Encouragement--Can You Imagine This Today?

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Or this...

Pope on education and the family...good stuff

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The Pope's message yesterday on education and on children is beautiful and worth reading. As parents are the first educators of their ch...

On subjectivity, relativism, narcissism and victim thinking

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I have been listening to the speech of the person in the street, and in particular groupings, such as church congregations, either at coffee...