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August 2019

August 31, 2019

This could either be good or dreadful

Drama is about conflict and so my fear is that the screenwriter will invent a...

July 2017

July 19, 2017

Benedict’s Personal Secretary Is Not Happy

with the "Benedict Attacks Evil Pope Francis, Capsizer of the Church" narrative that is being...

July 17, 2017

What Pope Benedict XVI Actually Said

A word of greeting from Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus, on the occasion of the funeral...

June 2017

June 29, 2017

PREACH!

What we truly need in this moment of history are men who, through an illuminated...

September 2016

September 19, 2016

Caritas in Veritate 7

Just a bit of Pope Benedict XVI for a Monday morning palate cleanser: "Another important...

September 14, 2016

Benedict Hearts Francis

Yep. Love both these guys. In Benedict XVI’s own words, he sees “no breach anywhere”...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

All of Media History Re: the Church since 2005

With Benedict, the Right believed fantasies about him as the Great Rottweiler and the Left...

November 2015

November 06, 2015

Benedict on Creation

Christopher Dodson of the North Dakota Catholic Conference writes: After reading some of the attacks...

November 25, 2014

Benedict XVI on the Council

He is his typical insightful self: “There was the Council of the Fathers — the...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

More Proof of What a Liberal Disaster Pope Francis is

Here he is writing with naked approval of socialism: "Socialism took two main paths —...

May 2014

May 15, 2014

Pope Benedict and the Logic of Gratuity

Here's a nice little discussion of Pope Benedict's thinking from Fr. Barron: This touches, in...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Tod Worner Nails It

Loving Francis, Missing Benedict sums it up perfectly. I do not get the sort of...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Benedict Defends Francis on Markets and Ethics…

...because they are basically saying the same thing. Ethika Politika is a great journal. Bookmark...

January 2014

January 31, 2014

Is Francis…

...building Benedict's Church? They certainly seem to be on the same page a lot.

January 14, 2014

More Utopian Marxist Crap from the Pope

On the other hand, we can no longer regard so naively the liberal-capitalistic system (even...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

Ratzinger on the New Evangelization

...sounds a lot like Francis on the New Evangelization.

October 11, 2013

Heretic Pope Betrays Church!

Pope Francis on not proselytizing: "The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she grows...

October 11, 2013

As Francis Continues to Neglect the Liturgy in Favor of All That Care for the Poor Crap….

...let's cast our minds back to what a really good Pope had to say: "Love...

October 07, 2013

Don’t be a sucker for the manufactured Benedict/Francis Feud Narrative

One of the narratives you will find being manufactured by the Andrew Sullivans and HuffPo...

September 2013

September 27, 2013

JP II, Benedict and Francis: On the Same Page

In case it's not clear, this: This man [Note: JPII is speaking of each and...

August 2013

August 10, 2013

As is well known, I am a liberal who hates Traditionalism and the Extraordinary Form

That's why I am so thankful we have finally come out of the Dark Ages...

July 2013

July 15, 2013

Fr. Dwight Longenecker Ponders Pope Francis

Is he a Reformer or a Revolutionary? Dude. All I know is that Sir Elton...

May 2013

May 03, 2013

Always Take Off 50 IQ Points When the MSM Reports on the Church

CBS tries to divine the sinister curtain-gliding nefarious purposes as Benedict moves back to the...

April 2013

April 10, 2013

Prayers for Pope Emeritus Benedict

He is not well. God bless this great and good man.

April 03, 2013

Yep

A reader writes: Wow! Pope Francis is encouraging his priests to ‘Open the doors of...

March 2013

March 25, 2013

The Illustrious Erin Manning writes

Mark, I'm asking you to do me a favor if you can. Deirdre Mundy, a...

March 23, 2013

Why are you reading me and not Amy Welborn?

Here she is, offering her customary sanity on the pontificates of Benedict and Francis: The...

February 2013

February 28, 2013

On this, his last day as Pope

I offer this wholly inadequate encomium to Pope Benedict XVI, Born Teacher. Thank you, Papa...

February 12, 2013

You Can Send a Word of Thanks to Pope Benedict

at Lovely idea.

February 12, 2013

Benedict and Gregory the Great

Michael Barber notes the rather clear and obvious influence Gregory has had on Benedict's thinking...

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