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November 2010

November 12, 2010

Courage and Fortitude

The three saints this week are like Three Musketeers--swashbuckling, manly saints who stepped out with...

November 12, 2010

Levity and Gravity

C.S.Lewis once quipped, "You can always tell the pillars of the church because their faces...

November 11, 2010

10 Reasons Why Modernist Christianity Will Die

Modernist Christianity must eventually die or cease to be Christian. At this time modernism still...

November 10, 2010

Pope St Leo the Great

(click to enlarge)Pope St Leo the Great Meets Attilla the Hun

November 10, 2010

Pope Meets Mantilla the Hon

Ok. Listen hon. You make a mistake. It was Pope Leo the Great who go...

November 09, 2010

Certainty and Mystery

The modernist likes to blame the Catholic--especially the Catholic convert--for 'needing' certainty. It is assumed...

November 06, 2010

Crime and Punishment

C.S.Lewis has an excellent essay somewhere about the real basis of our penal system. It...

November 06, 2010

Catholic Teaching on the Death Penalty

Here's the church's teaching on the death penalty. It's clear. While the death penalty is...

November 06, 2010

Death Penalty and Abortion

It is clear from the whole teaching of the Catholic Church that if we are...

November 02, 2010

Elgar and Newman

Blessed John Henry Newman's poem Dream of Gerontius is a narrative poem relating the deathbed...

November 02, 2010

The Angel Pilot

The angel pilot appears at the opening of Dante's Purgatorio:So that the white and the...

November 02, 2010

Purgatory

I just use Google image search to find the pictures for this blog. When I...

October 2010

October 29, 2010

Turning to the Lord

"Do you think that Jesus turned His back to His apostles when at the Last...

October 28, 2010

Ad Orientem

Since moving on from St Mary's, where all the Masses are celebrated ad orientem I...

October 28, 2010

St Simon and St Jude

What is interesting about St Simon is that he was a Zealot. The Zealots were...

October 27, 2010

Christianity Without Dogma…

...is like playing tennis without a net.It results in a certain formlessness, the reduction of...

October 25, 2010

English Martyrs

Today is the feast day of the English Martyrs. My favorites are Cuthbert Mayne--an Anglican...

October 25, 2010

ABC wants to help Anglicans Swim Tiber

The Daily Telegraph reports here that the Archbishop wants to set up a joint Anglican-Catholic...

October 25, 2010

Where’s my Gun?

After the last post Vic asked if I have a pocket in my chasuble for...

October 24, 2010

Daily Telegraph on Bibles and Guns

Britain's Daily Telegraph is much the best read for comment on American politics. I guess...

October 22, 2010

Mrs Brady Catholic Old Lady

How nice to see you dear! What a lovely surprise! I was just going out...

October 21, 2010

Must Christianity be Dogmatic?

One of the major objections to Christianity in the modern world is that it is...

October 20, 2010

The Bottom Line

From time to time I receive an email from a Protestant Christian who is trying...

October 19, 2010

St John deBrebeuf and Isaac Joques and Companions

Go here if you don't know about them.

October 18, 2010

St Luke

October 18, 2010

Ex Catholics and Protestants

Larry at Acts of the Apostasy blogs here about the curious fact that Catholics who...

October 17, 2010

Perspectives on Pentecost

Is it 'me and Jesus' or 'me and the Church'? This is the question of...

October 16, 2010

Evo Criticizes Evos

Evangelicalism's fads and fixtures. Go here

October 15, 2010

The Vicar on Society of St Wilfrid and St Hilda

You know Simon, I'm inclined to agree with you for once. I read in the...

October 15, 2010

Repentance, Perfectionism and Mary Poppins

Along with all the other modern heresies I wonder if we oughtn't to recognize a...

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