Yesterday evening, Pope Francis, the Supreme Pontiff of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, passed away. He was 88 years old and had been Pope for seventeen years. Pope Francis, who had been Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio, Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina before his elevation to the Throne of Saint Peter, was a …
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Apr 15 2025
A Tragedy
I know mine to be a minority viewpoint in this regard, yet I hold to it nevertheless: Religious indoctrination in youth Is the best predictor For apostasy and atheism in adult life. The evidence for that is little short of conclusive. Saying so shocked a great many of my Catholic readers. I put …
Apr 13 2025
Choosing The Thief
Catholics call today Palm Sunday: the day commemorating Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem. That event had features that suggested that the Redeemer would be hailed, even lionized, by the people of the city. As anyone familiar with the story of the Passion is aware, that turned out not to be the case: [Applause to …
Mar 02 2025
On Approaching The Lenten Season
This coming Wednesday, March 5, is Ash Wednesday for the Year of Our Lord 2025. The Lenten season begins on that day and extends through Good Friday: April 18 of this year. It’s supposed to be a season of penitence and reflection, during which Catholics strive to deepen our appreciation and gratitude for Jesus’s …
Dec 07 2024
“Racism:” A Tirade.
I just caught a Catholic priest denouncing a man he does not know as a racist: Anyone baptized a Catholic is a Catholic: you can’t become uncatholic. That does not mean every Catholic acts in accord with that baptism. Neither you nor Biden are examples of acting in accord with baptism. You are racist; …
Oct 11 2024
When they tell you who they are, believe them
Ann Barnhard has pointed out for some time that one of the big tells from the satanic cabal that currently controls many of the institutions in this world is that they are literally forced in some form or fashion to admit that they’re working for the Enemy, and not for God. Think Jorge Bergoglio holding …
Oct 05 2024
And on more pleasant going-ons
Yesterday I found out that the local TLM Catholic church had planned a Rosary procession around the city park. I’ve been told for years that the Rosary is one of the most powerful weapons that the Catholic Church has. So…. We did all three sets of mysteries. Yes, I know JPII put the Luminous Mysteries …
Aug 24 2024
Gee, I wonder why the Catholic Church is having a hard time keeping people?
I mean, with leaders like this, I would think virtuous Christians would be just breaking down the doors, right? Cardinal Blase Cupich, the progressive Catholic Archbishop of Chicago, offered the invocation for the Democratic National Convention (DNC) Monday without ever mentioning Jesus Christ. The DNC with it’s mobile abortion vans. The DNC with it’s proud …
May 19 2024
Births And Rebirths
Happy Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. On this day two millennia ago, the Apostles were granted the gift of the Holy Spirit, which emboldened and equipped them for the mission with which Christ had charged them: Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. …
May 13 2024
Motherhood
As virtually everyone in the Western Hemisphere knows by now, yesterday was Mothers’ Day, a holiday celebrated by mothers, grandmothers, greeting-card vendors, and Hallmark stockholders throughout the land. Why Mom gets only a single day, while Negroes and sexual deviants get a month each and governments get all of us year after year, I …
Apr 20 2024
Oh, Come On!
It’s all getting to be a bit much: A memo by the F.B.I. warning of possible threats posed by “radical-traditionalist” Catholics violated professional standards but showed “no evidence of malicious intent,” according to an internal Justice Department inquiry made public on Thursday. The assessment by the Justice Department’s watchdog found that agents …
Apr 07 2024
The Essence Of Divine Mercy
Today is Divine Mercy Sunday in the Catholic calendar. It’s also known as Doubting Thomas’s Sunday, for today at Mass we read the portion of the Gospel of John that recounts the Apostle Thomas’s transition from disbelief to belief. Notably, the risen Christ invited Thomas to satisfy himself with physical evidence: the wounds in …
Mar 17 2024
The Meek And The Grand
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day, Gentle Reader! A summary of the great Irish saint’s life and work: St. Patrick (387-493) was born in Kilpatrick, Scotland, to Roman-British parents. He was kidnapped by Irish raiders at the age of sixteen and sold as a slave to a Druid high priest. He worked as a shepherd …
Mar 15 2024
The Easiest Sin
Happy Ides of March, Gentle Reader! If you enjoyed your Pi Day – we did – then perhaps you’ll also enjoy this commemoration of the day, in 44 B.C., when a group of civic-minded patricians decided to take an aspiring dictator “off the ballot” in a rather final and unappealable way. It’s a recipe …
Mar 05 2024
Simple Foolishness Or A Communist Tactical Move?
It has frequently embarrassed me that Jorge Bergoglio, elevated to the Throne of Saint Peter some years back, chose my name for his papal appellation. The man is so demonstrably unfit for his position that the entire College of Cardinals should do severe penance for electing him. And as the successor to Pope Benedict …
Oct 23 2023
Clerical Missteps
The news in religion today focuses on the “Synod on Synodality” currently being held in the Vatican. Many Catholics are seriously concerned about what’s being discussed by the assembled clergy. Longstanding teachings of the Church appear threatened. Of course we won’t know what will come of it all until it’s over and its deliberations …
Oct 13 2023
Events To Commemorate
If you’re not a devotee of unusual holidays, you might not know that today is National M&M Day. The M&M, one of America’s iconic candies, is exceptionally versatile. Not only can you eat them “raw” or bake them into cookies and brownies, you can also play Go with them. The rules differ only slightly …
Jun 11 2023
Corpus Christi Sunday 2023
Many American dioceses celebrate this feast, that of the Body and Blood of Christ, on the Sunday that follows Trinity Sunday, rather than on Thursday as is traditional. So it’s worth a few more words about this celebration, and the specific doctrine that underlies it. Corpus Christi concerns one of the Church’s most …
May 27 2023
When We Need A Miracle…
…God, who always knows what we need, will provide one: The small rural Missouri town of Gower has become an unexpected pilgrimage destination after a nun’s exhumed body showed no visible signs of decomposition — four years after her burial. Hundreds of people have been flocking to the town 40 miles north …
May 07 2023
Human Institutions
They’re imperfect – all of them. Every now and then, a reminder is useful. The Acts of the Apostles contains a pair of segments that make many things plain – indeed, plainer in some ways than the Church would like us to know. The first of them is in Chapter 2: And …
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