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PRINCIPLES & DISTINCTIONS -  FR GREGORY HESSE

This is an extract from one of the many audiotapes of the late Fr Gregory Hesse S.T.D., S.J.D.  more

GENERATION OF NATURAL THINGS

A passing comment of St Thomas in his Summa Contra Gentiles seems to confirm a view expressed in the booksize paper How the Universe Operates on our website.  more

BETWEEN TWO INTELLECTS

For our edification St Thomas exposed in his writings just how dependent we are on God at every moment of our earthly existence. more

TWENTY YEAR REPORT

Today marks the 120th anniversary of the death of Pope Leo XIII and the twentieth anniversary of this website.  It is appropriate for us to provide a report on those years of operation. Regrettably things have not got better but worse not only for the Catholic faithful but for society generally.  Despite the chaos that marks the current governance of God's Holy Church as a result of the abdication of Catholic in favour of Modernist principle on the part of Pope and bishops, the Holy Spirit is still running the show.  We take the opportunity to renew our faith in Him and His providence confident that His permission of the evils will result in the much greater good that He will elicit from them when the time is appropriate.  more

THE THING

G K Chesterton wrote a book of essays back in 1929 whose title he coined from an expression in a celebrated letter of Hilaire Belloc to The Evening Standard.  more

SOME THOUGHTS ON 'HEAVEN'

The meaning of 'heaven' is hidden in our English translation of its usage in the original texts which are rendered in Latin by St Jerome.  It seems to have two different meanings.  more

TEN CONDEMNATIONS OF PIUS VI APPLICABLE TO THE VATICAN SYNOD 1962 - 1965

In August, 1794, in his bull Auctorem Fidei, Pope Pius VI condemned 84 propositions of the pseudo-synod of Pistoia.  Much of what he had to say there is applicable to the determinations of the bishops of Vatican II. Here we consider ten of them.  more

WHAT IS IT THAT WE KNOW WHEN WE KNOW?   CHESTERTON'S SUMMARY OF ST THOMAS

The central question of all philosophy, the adequation of our knowledge with being, is addressed by G K Chesterton in his short biography of St Thomas.  Here is an extract.  more

DENIGRATION OF THE LIMBUS PUERORUM

The Limbo of children, the place of children who die unbaptised, has been part of the Church's theological tradition since before the time of St Augustine, the severity of whose views, and those of other theologians on the topic, was ameliorated somewhat by Pope Innocent III in 1206.  This teaching had been maintained in the Church for some 750 years until theologians who had fallen under the influence of Vatican II sought to amend it.  There is no reason why it should be altered, no reason why conjecture over what Almighty God may do in His absolute power should be given theological authority.  more

LENT & THE SEXUALLY PERVERTED

Lent in the year of Our Lord 2023 is especially important as Catholic mark the slide from the natural, and Catholic, principle thas has occurred over the last seventy years.  more

THE PROBLEM WITH CANONISATIONS SINCE VATICAN II

A matter of grave concern to orthodox Catholics is the cavalier manner in which candidates have been promoted to the ranks of the blessed or of the saints since the reign of Pope John Paul II.  In fact the problem first arose during the reign of his predecessor, Paul VI, and its fons et origo is the ersatz Council that Pope endorsed, Vatican II.  Here we explore the inevitable consequences of the adoption by popes and bishops of false philosophy, then labouring to accommodate the Church's teaching to that philosophy.  more

PAUL VI OF MOST INFELICITOUS MEMORY...

Giovanni-Batista Montini, who became Pope Paul VI, had a history of turpitude of behaviour which ought, if Catholic principle had ruled the business of canonisation after 1983, have precluded any prospect of him ever being raised to the Church's altars.  more

THE STATUS OF THE NOVUS ORDO MISSAE - PART II

This article revisits the condemnation of the novus ordo set forth in a paper published on this website in February 2021.  more

THE DARKNESS OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT

The thinkers who followed, some 50 to 100 years after the event, the revolt of German and English Catholics against God and His Holy Church, sought to defend its inchoate atheism.  Today we are suffering the appalling effects of the irrationality in which they engaged.  That those effects are worse than they might have been we owe to the systematic abrogation of their responsibilities by the bishops of the Catholic Church.  more

ABBÉ LEMAÎTRE, THE BIG BANG, AND SO ON

Did the priest responsible for the 'big bang' thesis reflect the teachings of God's Holy Church when he offered his suggestion on the beginnings of the universe?  more

THE CONDEMNATION OF GALILEO

We publish here a further extract from historian Henry Sire’s Phoenix from the Ashes (Kettering OH, Angelico Press, 2015, pp. 93-100) to aid the Catholic faithful in their defence of the faith against the Protestant and atheistic impositions.

Galileo was a man whom, in today’s argot, we would describe as possessed of attitude, i.e., truculence or pig-headedness.    He was a good scientist but had a higher opinion of himself and his views than reality allowed.   He was also dishonest.  Had it not been discovered, long after the events that saw him marginalised by the Catholic Church, that his opinion was close to the truth uncovered by Sir Isaac Newton 55 years later, and that his condemnation could conveniently be used as a stick with which to beat the Church, his intemperateness might have attracted the obloquy it deserved.   Sire identifies the issues in this way:  “A clash between impudent folly and pompous autocracy has… been misrepresented as a conflict between science and religion”.   more

Review of Phoenix from the Ashes

Phoenix from the Ashes - The Making, Unmaking, and Restoration of Catholic Tradition by H J A Sire [Kettering, Ohio, Angelico Press http://angelicopress.com/sire-phoenix-from-the-ashes , 2015] is as admirable as it is timely. Here is a review of this important book.  more

CONSEQUENCES OF AUSTRALIA'S EMBRACE OF ATHEISM

It might be said that Australia has lapsed into atheism rather than deliberately chosen it.  But the price of liberty is eternal vigilance and the country's general attitude of laissez-faire will not cut it.  more


HOW THE UNIVERSE OPERATES

This is an ebook in pdf format which encapsulates the content of various papers on this website.  It takes the facts about the universe and its operations exposed by modern science and analyses them in accordance with a metaphysical, rather than materialistic, view of the universe; that is, one grounded in Aristotle’s doctrine of causality and his division of being into substance and accidents.
 
We are all of us affected by the current philosophical errors—materialism and subjectivism—and tend to view the universe through the eyes of modern science in conformity with those errors.  The view propounded here is radically different from modern science’s view.  In particular, it addresses the nonsense of a self-existent ‘nothing’—a scientific view grounded in the imagination rather than in reality; the remarkable fact that the heavenly bodies operate in a fashion which is the reverse of the way bodies operate under gravity’s influence; that gravity is NOT caused by a species of attraction but by a force of repulsion; and that, consistent with this view, the phenomenon of the tides is readily explained by the barycentripetal force of the Earth-Moon coupling.  Its most radical assertion is that c, ‘the speed of light’, is not the speed of light at all, but the speed according to which light’s proper substance, Aristotle’s ‘heavenly body’ or aether, dictates that light (and all other electromagnetic forces) shall operate.  more

WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE NOVUS ORDO—PART III

We reproduce here a paper published in Holy Week 2019.  more

LICITNESS OF THE NOVUS ORDO: TWO CONTRASTING APPROACHES

Canadian theologian, John Lamont, has published a paper which agrees in its conclusions with the views expressed some 20 years ago by the late theologian and canon lawyer, Fr Gregory Hesse.  Here we consider their differing approaches.  more


THE PROBLEM WITH VATICAN II

This is a book length pdf file comprised of various papers published on superflumina on the vexed topic of the Second Vatican Council.  The reader can download it freely.  He can navigate via the Index to any of its chapters.  He can have his computer read the text aloud while he labours at some task in the house, or as he drives the car.  It is hoped to produce it in several additional ebook formats in due course.This is a revised and shortened version of the original publication.  more




 THE POMPOUS ATHEIST

This ebook addresses the endemic modern problem of atheism—belief in no-God.  Atheists assert that they are above superstition, the ‘superstition’ of religious belief, but it is not true.  Not only are they believers, they are believers without the slightest evidence of that in which they believe.  They are the real exponents of ‘religious liberty’ for they insist on the freedom to believe there is no God.  Their every action involves acceptance of causation.  But, obsessed with an idea, they choose to deny causations’s reality when it comes to their own essence and existence.  In this series of essays we have endeavoured to make it plain just how stupid is the atheistic thesis.
 
It is reasonable to believe in God, no matter how confused one’s belief may be.  The fundamental issues are these: 1. I did not bring myself into existence; 2.  I do not keep myself in existence; 3.  in this world of reality I am one of the privileged beings for not only do I know singular things, like brute animals, but I know their very natures;  4. nothing exists without an adequate cause—and that includes me!  Moreover, 5. the one who caused me must be living and intellectual, as I am living and intellectual—but an immensely greater being.
 
It is hoped that the presentation of these essays will assist the reader in resisting the temptation to embrace the atheistic virus.  more


PROFESSOR SOLOMON'S LESSONS IN PHILOSOPHY

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