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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THE SMOKE OF SATANIt is worth contrasting psalm 95 v. 5 in the Vulgate with the Grail version read in the Novus Ordo. St Jerome was in no doubt that dallying with gods of the heathens was the same as dallying with the devil. The line casts another light on Vatican II's Dignitatis Humanae. more IS VATICAN II UNTOUCHABLEArchbishop Vigano has reached the threshold. Little more is required before he puts the question formally: Was the Second Vatican Council an ecumenical council? moreSCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY & DR WOLFGANG SMITHDr Wolfgang Smith has endeavoured to resolve the dilemmas that follow on quantum theory's elaboration of the behaviour of infinitesimally small particles by an appeal to the philosophy of Aristotle and St Thomas. This is our comment on his attempt. more
THE KOLBE CENTER STRIKES AGAINFr Thomas Crean O.P. has published on rorate-caeli an apology for the Kolbe Center’s latest enterprise, a series of DVDs purporting to defend religious belief against science’s discoveries. Purchasers need to be warned about the perils of the Center’s approach. more
AN EMINENT HISTORIAN, BUT NOT VERY LOGICALProfessor Roberto de Mattei has criticised the logic of Joseph Cardinal Zen in relying on Vatican II to oppose the Ostpolitik of the current regime in the Vatican towards the Church in China. But there is a lacuna in the Professor’s own logic which has to do with the Council itself. more SILENCE ON THE THRESHOLD ISSUEWhy do the best minds in the Catholic Church refuse to follow the demands of logic and challenge the claim that Vatican II was an ecumenical council? more THE QUESTION OF VATICAN II’S LEGITIMACYOur suggestion that a hypothetical future Pope might appoint a committee of theologians to address the issue whether the Second Vatican Council was in fact ecumenical receives support in an opinion piece by Professor Roberto de Mattei. more POPE BENEDICT’S DEFENCE OF VATICAN IIA recent citation of the former Pope’s address to the Vatican Curia in December 2005 in defence of Vatican II provides us with the opportunity to weigh his views in the balance. more TUMULTUOUS TIMESHere is a further contribution to the question of the status of Vatican II prompted by a letter of Archbishop Vigano commenting on his critique of 9th June and a suggestion by Dr Peter Kwasniewski as to how a hypothetical future Pope might move to resolve the problems for which the Council is responsible. more COMMENTARY ON RECENT PAPERS OF BISHOP SCHNEIDER & ARCHBISHOP VIGANOThough neither is prepared to concede the point, the reasonings of two of the Church’s better bishops support the view that Vatican II was not an ecumenical council. more
THE VEILHere we commend a paper written by Dr Peter Kwasniewski last year which explains why the wearing by women of a veil at Mass is appropriate. more THE TRINITY REFLECTED IN MANGod made man in His own image and likeness. Careful consideration shows just how closely we reflect the Divine Being. more WHY CAN’T WE ATTEND MASS AND RECEIVE THE SACRAMENTS?The weak conduct of Australia’s bishops as shepherds of the faithful over the last 40 years has continued with their ineffectual response to the challenge of the Corona virus. more ST JOSEPH & THE VOLUNTARYA thoughtful paper by Dr Peter Kwasniewski has provoked this article on St Joseph. more THE POPE’S EASTER MESSAGE: AN EXERCISE IN INEPTITUDEThe Pope is not the head of some merely secular institution but of the one institution on earth established by Almighty God for man’s salvation. What should he have said in his Easter message? more A PLAGUE TO COUNTER A PLAGUEChrist’s Church specifies for Lent an antiphon to the Office of Matins which reveals Divine foreknowledge of the dilemma that confront us—Promisit Dominus coronam vigilantibus. more ‘IN NO STRANGE LAND’Francis Thompson’s poem enthralls with its imagery; but what is its focus, what is ‘the many-splendoured thing’? more GOD & THE THEORY OF EVERYTHINGThis is a paper by Dr Don Boland, graduate of the Angelicum (Pontifical University of St Thomas), former lecturer at Sydney’s Aquinas Academy and Centre for Thomistic Studies; now lecturer in philosophy at St John Vianney College, the Seminary of the Catholic Diocese of Wagga Wagga in New South Wales. It was written in 2012 and is published on the internet here for the first time. The burden of the paper is encapsulated in Dr Boland’s first paragraph of which the following is an extract. “For Aristotle the endeavour to discover the theory of everything necessarily belongs not to Physics but to Metaphysics. The philosophers of the modern era... have come to reject the notion that Metaphysics, as understood by Aristotle, has any cognitive value. What this has meant is that the explanations of everything... are sought entirely within the world of material reality or what is available to sense observation and verification.” more THE THINGG 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 MIRACLES AT WINGELLOThis is our comment on one of the more amazing consequences of the recent bushfires in Australia. more
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