https://international.la-croix.com/news/religion/reform-group-says-institutional-church-has-lost-the-trust-of-irish-people/16166 Things are spiralling out of control in matters of moral and socio-cultural urgency on the Emerald Isle! It is a tragic scenario of events unfolding where the faithful are disillusioned with the Church's modus operandi. There is also a looming trend among the laity most particularly, to embrace a secularistic form of Evangelical Protestantism…
“Render unto Caesar….”
Rather funny that I saw an article today in Aleteia that mentioned Dostoevsky's work The Idiot, which I quoted only yesterday in a journal entry! Here is the link to the article: https://aleteia.org/2022/05/16/the-summer-theology-institute-invites-high-school-students-to-camp-to-explore-theology-of-beauty/ This article says: The "Beauty Will Save the World" camp at The University of St. Francis features workshops on prayer, iconography, theology,…
Feast of the Divine Mercy
May the Divine Mercy grant you peace in the world around you, and peace in your own heart! AMEN.
The Forces of Mordor vs The Prince of Peace
The battle is raging....perhaps just when we thought it had dimmed over the decades to a mere flicker of memory of how the ferocity of conflict and strife tore assunder the fragile but persistent piecemeal efforts to sustain a glimmer of social cohesion in the Europe of the interwar years. And we know that with…
My Commentary on Fr James Martin’s Take on the “Unforgivable Sin”
https://www.facebook.com/100044283077147/posts/487489399403825/ Absolutely not what I was expecting from Fr James Martin! He was in my good books insofar as the willingness to stretch the conventional boundaries of how to show compassion goes. Which is why now I am in shatters over this one.... He, unlike Alice von Hildebrand, Fr Benedict Groschel or Fr Ronald Rolheiser,…
Critiquing the Inconsistency of the Sophia Institute Press Preamble about Fulton Sheen’s The Greatest Commandment, A Fulton Sheen Anthology on Love.
https://mailchi.mp/sophiainstitute/the-greatest-commandment?e=61c15f3aed Anything, irrespective of whether it is labelled as "secular humanism", that wills the good of another....is in the catagory of "antithetical" to evil. We hear it proclaimed in the Gloria of Holy Mass as follows: Glory to God in the highest. And on earth peace to people of good will.We praise You. We bless…
On the Latest “Letter from Rome”
https://international.la-croix.com/news/letter-from-rome/the-first-gay-pope/15560?utm_source=NewsLetter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=29Jan22mailjet Firstly, just to clarify, this La Croix article’s title is grossly misleading for one thing as the two states mentioned in the title of this Letter from Rome by Robert Mickens are completely irreconcilable, that of Francis being Pope as well as “gay”. The latter assertion is frankly none other than a sensationalistic catch-cry…
How Quickly Things Change! The Rising Tide of Unexpected Things & Pope Leo XIII’s Vision
We are in the throes of it now! I never thought we would see the results of Pope Leo XIII's vision* of the Great Apostasy come into tangible reality on so many levels so soon. Neither was I expecting our beloved Holy Father, Pope Francis, to turn his back on his own compassionate brilliance in…
‘Pets Instead of Children Diminishes Us’: Pope Francis or Fake News?
My Commentary on a Rumoured Headline from Aleteia: https://u24251644.ct.sendgrid.net/ss/c/0CDP-DnV2hfBml920apdXlpYrOHOCzsbibT_UxpQSTHzXN0X0BmhnV8_9RXv7e5Wkgv1ScOAsegRvupsm_3o9ruiQVNjE75-VsIQlsnkwI32iisWE4cPSbqafe4ofUuQOoiVkp7uBJ2okG759VbpwuFtnYqbdWMty_wIqi_75HJ3T3Qs4AHDEUw72YMamCFd8fRncHV6KdLbnADwmyvZPlTDSc0LgpXU4pcffARWoS164jxltHBipIm1AZ0K-XKtWCE263fAzf-dpUIVSZ9OjA/3ii/lMNGFMyvTcmAiPeuMnmAUQ/h30/VXy74rmv_EAsKBRXY-qQSnty6YFUjDWO_T3n6g0kYR8 To think that Pope Francis, the author of Laudato Si could have even said such a terrible thing is plainly unthinkable! It for one thing contradicts the entire premise of his famous 2015 encyclical that pleads for the heart of humanity to be converted to a…
My Commentary on a Facebook Post that Unfairly Castigated the Official Opening Mass for the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia
https://www.facebook.com/groups/plenaryyouth/permalink/1216069592225845/ We live in an era where we have a great opportunity to learn of and practice the kind of humility and love St Mother Teresa of Calcutta exemplified during her earthly sojourn and actually, like our beloved Pope Francis, she was revolutionary when it came to promoting unity between different camps within the Church…
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