Christopher West’s appearance on Nightline, during which he praised Hugh Hefner and asserted that John Paul II advanced the sexual revolution “in the right direction,” is but the latest in a long series of scandals arising from West’s promotion of “John Paul II’s Theology of the Body” (TOB).  [Caveat: I am forced to quote some of that scandalous material here—not for the sake of multiplying scandal, but rather to demonstrate its existence as a warning to Catholics to keep themselves and their children away from this man’s morally offensive presentations, and those of his fellow “experts” in TOB.]

Based on his rendering of John Paul’s 129 deeply obscure audience addresses filled with the Pope’s clearly personal “reflections”  and “meditations” as a private doctor, West has turned TOB into a veritable branded product, complete with a Christopher West logo, which he markets in every conceivable venue with all the fervor and conviction of the late TV pitchman for OxiClean.  And the marketing pays off big: a million books and three million audios sold.  Yet another success story in Neo-Catholic Land.

TOB, West  exclaims, “has already begun a ‘sexual counter-revolution’ that’s changing lives around the world. The ‘fire’ is spreading and in due time we can expect global repercussions.”  Not impressed? Wait, there’s more!: “Brace yourself! If we take in what the Holy Father is saying in his Theology of the Body, we will never view ourselves, view others, view the Church, the Sacraments, grace, God, heaven, marriage, the celibate vocation...we will never view the world the same way again.”

Oh come off it, will you?...More>>>

Reformation Revisited

The last week in May 2009 saw the last Mass celebrated in the last seminary in Scotland. Scotus College, home to a mere nine candidates for the priesthood, closed its doors for good bringing the curtain down on almost 300 years of official seminary life in a country once so Catholic that the Popes accorded it the special title of “dearest daughter of the Church.”

If these Popes were alive today I think it quite likely that the word “dearest” would be replaced with ‘dysfunctional’ in keeping with a complete loss of the sense of the sacred in the Scottish hierarchy.

While it is truly lamentable that a 16-year-old seminary should be fated to call time on a glorious history, one look at the chapel in that horrendous building does provide some comfort in the knowledge that at least one thoroughly liberal hell hole has gone down the drain sooner rather than later.

I have never seen such a dreadful excuse for a Catholic chapel, as that in Scotus. Frankly, I would have hesitated to walk my dog near the place let alone send young men there to be malformed as priests....More>>>

The Selective Anathema

Thirteen priests ordained, eight more on the way

Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, Chairman of the

German Catholic Bishops Conference

Achtung! The German bishops are taking a stand. After four decades of a more or less “anything goes” approach to heterodoxy and dissent in the Church in Germany, the German Bishops Conference has finally found something to anathematize. Several bishops, including Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, Chairman of the German Catholic Bishops Conference, have let it be known that tolerance of dissent from ecclesial authority in Germany is not completely without limits.

In a June 1 Vatican Radio interview, Bishop Gerhard Muller of Regensburg warned officials at the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Zaitzkofen that going ahead with priestly ordinations this month would constitute a violation of canon law and create a “dangerous situation.” So dangerous, in fact, that the bishop’s only recourse would be to excommunicate the SSPX bishop and ordinands should the ordinations take place.

Excommunication?  Didn’t that go out with chapel veils and mortal sin? Pretty intolerant stuff. I mean, women priests in Germany—maybe,  homosexual priests—sure, heretical priests—duh,  but the SSPX?  Evidently, a final solution is needed for that sort...More>>>

The international controversy over the ordination of twenty-one priests for the

Society of Saint Pius X prompts consideration of forty years of governance by “the Vatican”

as opposed to the Vicar of Christ.

Today, June 19, 2009, Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais ordained thirteen priests at the seminary of the Society of Saint Pius X in Winona, MN.  On June 27, 2009, Bishop Alfonso de Galaretta will ordain three priests at the Society’s seminary in Zaitzkofen, Germany, and on the same date five more priests will be ordained at the Society’s headquarters in Ecône, Switzerland.     

The Society has been ordaining priests since the 1970s, but these twenty-one ordinations are perceived differently because the international media have been in a state of high alert over the growing threat of recrudescent Roman Catholicism since the publication of Summorum Pontificum and the remission of the excommunications of the Society’s four bishops in January of this year—actions widely denounced by the media because they were undertaken without a consensus of the Pope’s advisors in “the Vatican.”

“The Vatican” and the Society’s Ordinations 

Hence the media responded to the coming ordinations with a spate of tendentious headlines suggesting what they would like us to believe: that “the Vatican”—not the Pope, mind you—has forbidden the ordinations.  Herewith a sampling:...More>>>

At a scientific convention in Chicago in 1980, over 150 of the world’s leading evolution experts faced the facts of the fossil record and virtually pronounced the death of Darwinism.

They admitted that after 120 years of digging, the fossil record showed that there are no fossil links between one species and another, i.e., there are no transitional fossils. Thus, it was acknowledged that there is indeed a genetic barrier between species which renders impossible the theory that mankind evolved from apes.

These findings should have buried evolutionism forever as a serious scientific concept. Yet, the opposite has happened. Staggering numbers worldwide have continued to embrace evolution’s false doctrines in preference to scriptural and other evidence relating to man’s true origin...More>>>

Fatima and Akita

A Fateful Concurrence

From May 2-6, 2009 I was privileged to be in Akita, Japan as a guest speaker for the Society of Saint Pius X.  The occasion was the annual pilgrimage to the site of the apparitions of Our Lady of Akita by Japanese traditionalist faithful under the Society’s care. The invitation came from Father Daniel Couture, the District Superior of SSPX’s District of Asia, which ministers not only to Japan, but also Korea, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, New Caledonia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam and even (occasionally) Dubai....More>>>

1984: The Sequel

(A Real World in Virtual Catacombs)

Big Brother is Watching...

and Speaking

If you still live here in America these days you’ll soon be visited by one of the 140,000 workers recently hired by the federal government to collect global positioning satellite (GPS) coordinates on your home. Over the next year or so every home in America will reportedly have its GPS coordinates logged in with Uncle Sam, right down to the front door. In other words, Big Brother will be watching you—literally. ....More>>>

The Wintertime of Vatican II

I write these words on May 17, 2009—a day that will surely go down in infamy in the annals of the once mighty Catholic Church in America. The springtime of Vatican II has obviously given way to darkest winter when Our Lady’s University in South Bend, Indiana, selects an ardently pro-abortion, pro stem-cell research, pro homosexual unions socialist for its commencement speaker. But this whole, sorry incident is indicative of a much greater catastrophe at the very heart of the Catholic Church....More>>>

Rep. Ferrar, Another 'Catholic'

Politician Gone Wrong

Opponents of legal abortion have always said it was a slippery slope. Legalize abortion, and euthanasia would follow. This, of course, is exactly what has happened, for instance, in Oregon. Barely a day passes when we don’t read a newspaper story about the merits of fetal stem cell research or cloning. And now a Catholic legislator in Texas, with a 100 percent rating from the National Abortion Rights Action League, wants to make infanticide a mere jail offense....More>>>

“It seems to me that his [West's] presentation, his vocabulary, the vulgarity of things that he uses are things that simply indicate that even though he might have good intentions he has derailed and is doing a lot of harm.”

- Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, seen here with Pope Benedict XVI

Renowned Catholic thinker Dr. Alice von Hildebrand has criticized Theology of the Body speaker Christopher West, saying his approach has become too self-assured. She criticized his presentations as irreverent and insensitive to the “tremendous dangers” of concupiscence. Also cautious of West’s remarks on his recent interview with ABC television were Mary Shivanandan and Fr. José Granados, both Catholic authors and theologians....More>>>

Obsessed with Sex

Catholic Universities of America

For more than a generation in the fourth century, the dogmatic teaching of the Council of Nicea on the divinity of Christ was misinterpreted and perverted so that the majority of Catholic bishops tolerated or taught a false Christology.  Something similar is happening in our time in regard to the Magisterial teaching on creation...More>>>

Christianity & the Blair Witch Hunt

The Rise of the Ultimate Neo-Catholics

At the September 1999 Labour Party Conference in Brighton, England, Donald Dewar, the first leader of an independent Scottish Parliament for 300 years, stood before his peers and declared to rapturous upstanding applause: “Section 28 is no more!”....More>>>

Lettin' Freedom Ring!

"Today we are nothing but cowards in America. We can’t even say the truth because we are so afraid of what our colleagues will think."
- Abortion Survivor Gianna Jessen

Introduction

This commentary will take a critical look at what I call the Tea Party circuit and its celebrity opponents of the Obama regime, including Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Ron Paul, and Catholics such as Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and certain lesser lights of the “Catholic libertarian” persuasion who call themselves traditionalists. I will argue that this political coalition, which willingly confines itself to the morally relativistic framework of post-Enlightenment liberalism, is unable to address the civilizational crisis of radical evil with the necessary radical defense of the good, which is really only possible on the basis of the law of the Gospel and what the Magisterium of the Catholic Church calls the Social Kingship of Christ....More>>>

In an effort to “reduce the church's political influence, Argentine atheists and feminists are spearheading a drive to get people who were baptized Roman Catholic but disagree with the church's politics to formally renounce their faith,” reports Reuters (Mar. 4, 2009)....More>>>

On March 4 this year, Catholic pensioner Ted Atkinson was imprisoned for 12 weeks for the ‘crime’ of sending pro-life material to pro-abortionists....More>>>

Lefebvre Still Speaking

After Eighteen Years in the Grave

Eighteen years ago this month Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre went to his eternal reward. Given the mettle of the man it’s not surprising he continues to make front-page news nearly two decades after his passing. In life his defense of the Catholic Faith altered the course of the Barque of Peter. In death his legacy is threatening to change the course of history. No wonder the anti-Lefebvre propaganda machine remains well oiled to this day....More>>>

Last Catholic Monarchy  Euthanized

Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg Silenced!

Franciscans, Dominicans and Lefebvrists

The work of the restoration of the Church carried out with wisdom and strength by the Holy Father has faced thousands of hindrances by the ignorant progressivists and the modernists proud of their pseudo-science. These men, who are enemies of all good, have done everything to prevent the canonical regularization of the Priestly Fraternity St. Pius X. For instance, the anarchist heretic Hans Küng not only criticized the Pope for approaching the traditionalists, but also incited the Austrian clergy and laypeople against the appointment of a certain auxiliary Bishop for a diocese in that country.....More>>>

A Word from the Institute of the Good Shepherd

Father Philippe Laguérie Interviewed by The Remnant

Introduction

There’s no sense fooling ourselves: all indicators in the Church and in the state point to the rise of a new economic, political and social order that promises to be supremely hostile to all things Christian. That’s the reality, and there’s only one thing we can do to slow the “progress” upon which that reality depends: devote ourselves entirely to the restoration of Catholic social order. This begins, of course, with the universal restoration of the Traditional Mass—the touchstone of the Faith....More>>>