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In his new book, Science at the Doorstep to God, Fr. Robert Spitzer shows that new discoveries in the physical sciences point toward the existence of God. This revolutionary new evidence for God’s existence makes atheism seem sillier than ever. Already effectively disproved through the rational arguments of philosophy and the evidence of history, atheism…
The journey we began even as early as the pre-Lent “Gesima” Sundays, has brought us to this last time of trial and transformation, the four days remaining in Passiontide and the last three, their own set, the Sacred Triduum. Some people will take the road of the least they can do, and perhaps attend Mass…
If there is anything that really marks out our present era, it is pettiness – small-mindedness. One thinks immediately, of course, of the campaign against the Tridentine Mass on the part of many in the Catholic hierarchy. The torture in which so many prelates seem to delight in ranges from closing down long-established Latin Mass…
The very courageous sixty-one-year-old Catholic Bishop Shao of Wenzhou, China, was recently arrested again. His crime? Specific charges are not often forthcoming in China, but the arrest doubtlessly stems from his refusal to join the Patriotic Association, a darkly comedic euphemism for the portion of the Catholic Church in China that is controlled by the…
Joe Biden is a heretic who eats and drinks his own spiritual death every time he unworthily takes Communion, which is all the time. So, it is unsurprising Old Joe hosted another well-known heretic, Fr. James Martin, S.J., at the White House last Sunday for St. Patrick’s Day. St. Patrick chased the snakes out of…
Above: Triduum liturgy organised by the Latin Mass Society at St Mary Moorfields in London in 2023. Photo by Joseph Shaw. At the time of the promulgation of Traditionis Custodes in the Summer of 2021, I wrote that the bishops of England and Wales had seemingly decided to “slow walk” the implementation of the motu…
Above: Engelhartszell ( Upper Austria ). Engelszell monastery church ( 1754-64 ) – Rococo pulpit by Johann Georg Üblhör: Abat-voix with sculpture group showing Saint Bernard of Clairvaux vanquishing the philosopher Peter Abelard. Traditional Perspectives on Philosophy – pt. 1: Voluntarism Imagine it’s a Saturday afternoon, and you’re sitting lazily on a couch in your…
“On the mountain, the Lord will see.” Thus did Abraham, in the book of Genesis, name the mountain where God tested him by ordering him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. The Bible is full of stories where prophets and holy men encounter God “in the wilderness,” in deserted places where no one lives. Moses,…
Tolerance is for persons. It does not apply to principles. When the Supreme Court overturned its infamous decision that invented a right for a woman to procure an elective abortion—one not necessitated by, for example, an emergency hysterectomy to remove a malignant cancer—many people said that it would not result in fewer abortions. I think…
Ideology is not the same thing as religion. Most religions, even though often wrong about many things, seek to better the person practicing it; they have similar moral codes, which typically include kindness to those less fortunate and decency toward others. Ideology, on the other hand, cares little for individual persons and focuses completely on…
