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ROME—The
old Mass can now be heard in at least seven of Rome’s places of
worship, five of which offer it on Sundays, including three
where it is said daily. This is besides St Peter’s itself where
it is being said publicly on an increasing number of special
occasions.
Significantly, one Roman church is now dedicated to the entire
Latin liturgy. It was on 23 March 2008 that Cardinal Ruini, at
the behest of Benedict XVI, created this personal parish in the
ancient pilgrims’ church which displays Reni’s magnificent
painting of the Trinity (1625) above the high altar. Starting
there, the seven Mass-centres are as follows:...More>>> |
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CAI |
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Christophobic Artificial Intelligence |
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CYC is a computer "knowledge base" in an artificial
"knowledge-representation language" called CYCL. CYC comes from
the word "enCYClopedia". The original idea of CYC was to encode
a single-volume English desk encyclopedia into a language of
symbolic logic so that the semantic content or meaning could be
more easily manipulated by computers. By "manipulated" I mean to
include things like making logical deductions from premises in a
manner analogous to the third operation of the intellect studied
at least up until the 1960s by every Catholic seminarian in his
foundation in scholastic/Thomistic/Aristotelian logic...More>>> |
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Marriage: It’s Natural |
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Natural Law Arguments in Defense of
Marriage |
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As the
institution of marriage is now under near constant attack, with
several additional states gearing up to redefine it altogether,
it is appropriate to consider the arguments in support of the
divinely ordained nature of this institution. It is imperative
to do so at this time in particular as the organs of power in
our society are bent on denying that marriage is the lifelong
union of one man and one woman for the purpose of begetting,
rearing and educating children.
We have a
president and media Gestapo who propagate the falsehood that
marriage is whatever they declare it to be. Interestingly, in a
public debate in which I participated over California Proposition 8
last November, my challenger began his remarks by stating that he
believed the State had no business defining what constituted a
marriage. He concluded therefore that the law should let anything
be accepted as a marriage that is claimed to be such by individuals,
regardless of its form....More>>> |
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Ave Maria! |
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Tradition Rising in Southwest Florida |
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Consecration of Christ the King
Church
(First diocesan church in Florida to
exclusively offer the Tridentine Mass )
by Michael J. Matt
On the
Feast of the Epiphany, 1996, my wife and I were married at the
Church of St. William in Naples, Florida. The late, great Father
H. Marchosky offered our Traditional Latin Nuptial Mass for the
first time in Naples since Vatican II. In those days it was no
simple matter to obtain the needed permissions to have the
“outlawed” old Mass. In fact, after we’d just barely secured
ours (thanks to the efforts of my wife’s family—faithful
Catholics and residents of Naples for decades), it was rumored
that our Nuptial Mass would be the first and last Traditional
Mass allowed in Naples....More>>> |
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Forty Years of Novus Dis-Ordo |
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(But what about the
Code of Canon Law of 1917?) |
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Anniversaries
are a time for reflection. 2009 Marked the 40th
anniversary of the revolutionary introduction of the Novus Ordo
Missae by the command of Pope Paul VI, an act which has
inflicted much damage, pain, scandal and confusion on the Church.
As a reflection on this anniversary we will consider a topic which,
to my knowledge, has rarely been considered as a contributing factor
to this unprecedented liturgical novelty, the imposition on the
Church of the Codex Juris Canonici of 1917...More>>> |
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Ludwig
von Mises versus Christ,
the
Gospel and the Church |
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(An Open Letter to Tom Woods) |
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Dear Tom:
When we
wrote The Great Façade together back in 2002, I was one of
the most ardent supporters of your work. Indeed, I saw you as a big
part of the future of the “traditionalist” movement in America. But
I did not anticipate your public dissent from the Church’s social
teaching in favor of the radically laissez faire “Austrian
school” of economics, whose pretensions range far beyond economics
to a comprehensive “philosophy of liberty” that cannot be reconciled
with the teaching of the Magisterium on the duties of men and
societies toward Christ and His Church, or even the duties of men
toward each other on the level of natural justice. Nor did I
anticipate that you would become a “scholar in residence” for the
Ludwig von Mises Institute, a radical libertarian cult dedicated to
the thought of von Mises and his “anarcho-capitalist” disciple,
Murray Rothbard, both agnostic liberals who utterly rejected the
role of the Church and the Gospel in the constitution of social
order....More>>> |
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No Lasting Home |
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The Rise of Utopian Slavery |
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A Liberated
Christian
in Another
'Tolerant' Society
Old
Christendom has long since abandoned the City of God in a vain
attempt to build the City of Man, a soulless Potemkin village on
a grand scale. Like all the hubristic, grandiose and
narcissistic extravaganzas beginning with the Tower of Babel, it
was foreordained to failure. We have on this earth no lasting
home, in the mournful lyric of Brahms’s A German Requiem.
The towers
of the modern day City of Man are beginning to show cracks in
their showy but shoddy façades. Their shallow foundations
tremble. Cities show increasing signs of strain, and there are
those who believe they are soon to come apart at the seams. So
it shall always be so long as societies worship themselves...More>>> |
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Church
Arian, Church Evolutionist |
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The Evolution of
Evolution |
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As St.
Jerome put it, “The Church wakened to find itself Arian”. Today
the Church has wakened to find itself Evolutionist. And today’s
heresy — or body of heresies — is a much more radical thing than
the adherence to the single Arian heresy; for the present error,
though it is presented as Theistic Evolution, draws upon the
fundamental atheistic or pantheistic explanation of the
universe: the universe creating itself by its own processes....More>>> |
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A Visit to Konnersreuth |
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Revisiting the Extraordinary Life
of Teresa Neumann |
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When I was a child, a frequent guest in my father’s home was the
late Trappist priest, Father Urban Snyder. One of the original
“men in black”, Fr. Snyder had refused to offer the New Mass
after Vatican II, determining instead to travel the world
offering the old Mass and spreading the traditionalist doctrine.
He was a close friend of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and, for a
time, served as the Archbishop’s confessor....More>>> |
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Ecclesial Schizophrenia |
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From the Pill, to Catholic “Divorce” to the Apocalypse
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Chaos in the Church
Nobody who
wants to see can ignore that the Church is going through moments
of great confusion. The Spirit of Darkness has worked so
adroitly and efficiently that he has succeeded in spreading a
dark cloak over the minds of multitudes of the Faithful.
Consequently, many Christians feel themselves confused about
what they must do. It can be said straightforwardly that they
are divided. On the one hand, we have the clear, categorical,
and still in force norm.
On the other, there is the daily, absolutely contrary
practice:
Shepherds tolerating ways of behavior – sometimes, even advising
them – which are foreign and even totally opposite to the norm.
It is not surprising that many sheep of the Flock of Christ feel
themselves disoriented; worse yet, they have ended up abandoning
the norm and consigning it to oblivion....More>>> |
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Tu Es Sacerdos in Aeternum |
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Father Enrique Tomas Rueda, RIP |
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I hadn’t heard from Fr. Rueda in at least two months when an
email message, forwarded multiple times, showed up in my inbox
last month indicating he’d died. In
time, I would learn there was some rather bizarre news
associated with that of Father’s passing...More>>> |
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From Manhattan to the Vatican: |
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A
Catholic
Declaration Is
Desperately Needed |
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Pope Benedict XV
by Christopher A. Ferrara
Two months
after World War I began, with Christmas approaching, Pope
Benedict XV, in his encyclical Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum
(1914), echoed the judgment of both of his immediate
predecessors on the state of what the French political
philosopher Pierre Manent has rather mordantly described as “the
new world of human liberty.” And Pope Benedict wanted to be
clear that “it was not the present sanguinary strife alone” that
had prompted him to continue in the line of papal pessimism
about political modernity. “There is another evil raging in the
very inmost heart of human society,” he wrote, “a source of
dread to all who really think, inasmuch as it has already
brought, and will bring, many misfortunes upon nations, and may
rightly be considered to be the root cause of the present awful
war.”...More>>> |
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