under the patronage of St Joseph
and St Dominic
By the rivers of Babylon there
we sat and wept, remembering Zion;
on the poplars that grew there we hung up our harps. . . Ps 136
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under the patronage of St Joseph
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THE PROBLEM WITH CANONISATIONS SINCE VATICAN IIA 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 IIThis 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 ENLIGHTENMENTThe 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 ONDid 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 GALILEOWe 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 AshesPhoenix 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 THE HUBRIS OF ATHEISM'S HIGH PRIESTVictorians ought to be gravely concerned at the prospect of another four years of the Atheistic, er, Labor Party governing them. more ALL TIME BELONGS TO HIMRecent events have seen a pause in the atheistic charge. Will it last? We are betrayed by our leaders at every level, particularly at the religious. Divine Providence has intervened for the moment as if to call us to wake up to ourselves, before time runs out. more LOVE & THE ATHEISTThe atheist lives in contradiction to the gifts he has been given. The great tragedy is that he bequeaths to his children the fruits of his own folly. more OUR ALLEGEDLY CATHOLIC BISHOPSAre Australia's bishops Catholics? Or are they Modernists? more THE 'PLENARY COUNCIL' CIRCUSAustralia's bishops are betraying their oaths of office in attempting to lead the Catholic faithful to embrace the protocols of Modernism. They are not working for Christ and His Church but for a counterfeit entity inspired by the devil. more DON'T MENTION 'THE VACCINE'!The 'vaccines', the chickens, foisted on the public by know-all governments and their instrumentalities are coming home to roost. Some may be comprehended under an acronym which seems entirely appropriate, 'SADS'. more WHY ARE OUR BISHOPS SUCH COWARDS?A dozen issues arise every week where a truly Catholic bishop would offer commentary to prevent the flourishing of error in society. Yet faithful and unfaithful alike hear nothing. Why? more CONSEQUENCES OF AUSTRALIA'S EMBRACE OF ATHEISMIt 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 AUSTRALIA'S CATHOLIC BISHOPS ON THE COMING ELECTIONThe President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has
released an 'Election Statement'. This is our criticism. more
ALPHA & OMEGAChrist is our beginning and our end. When the Jews asked him: 'Who art thou?' He replied: 'The Beginning...' Christ's Church makes His answer plain in her ceremony with the Easter Candle. more WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE NOVUS ORDO—PART IIIWe reproduce here a paper published in Holy Week 2019. more LICITNESS OF THE NOVUS ORDO: TWO CONTRASTING APPROACHESCanadian 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 DRUG OF UNBELIEFActions have consequences. It is remarkable how incapable the populace is of seeing the necessary effects of their embrace of the protocols of atheism. Here is the true opiate of the masses. more GOD & MAN IN HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESSWe know something of God's nature by what He has revealed. We can arrive, too, at some understanding of how it is that man is created in God's image and likeness. more THE SCIENCE, MORALITY & SAFETY OF VACCINESThis book by American Catholic Master of Science, Pamela Acker, ought to be compulsory reading for all in the present pandemic of irrationality over the need to undergo vaccination. more THE SEEDS OF THE CRISISMuch has been written on the state in which Australians find themselves as a result or the incompetence of governments and their bureaucrats in addressing the impact of the Corona virus. Here is an an analysis from a philosophical point of view. more AUSTRALIA'S BISHOPS' CRISIS OF LOYALTY - PART IIThere is another, and more insidious, reason why Australia's bishops moved to suppress the Statement upholding the Church's teachings in faith and morals by some 75 of their priests. (This is a revised version of the paper. It addresses some valid criticisms of its expression.) more AUSTRALIA'S BISHOPS' CRISIS OF LOYALTYMany of Australia's Catholics became aware of an initiative taken by six priests from different dioceses around the country on September 14th, 2021, to publish a statement of Catholic principle respecting the issues confronting the faithful in their care as a result of the current viral crisis. One may gather that they had been driven to the task by the signal failure of Australia's bishops to provide necessary leadership. On the morning of September 22nd, the morning, it will be recalled, when Australia suffered her biggest earthquake since settlement by the British in the 18th Century, the bishops intervened and quashed the priests' initiative. Why? more GOVERNANCE OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AUSTRALIAThis is a criticism of the Response of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference to a 200 page report by a team, consisting mainly of lay people, on ‘the future governance of the Catholic Church in Australia’. It reflects not so much on the Catholic Church as on its counterfeit, ‘the Synodal church of Vatican II’, established after the close of the Council, of which our bishops are functionaries. The inability to distinguish their conduct as bishops from their conduct as functionaries of this counterfeit will lead inevitably to harm to the Church and the Catholic faithful. more
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