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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By the rivers of Babylon there
we sat and wept, remembering Zion; |
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PRINCIPLES & DISTINCTIONS - FR GREGORY HESSEThis 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 THINGSA 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 INTELLECTSFor 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 REPORTToday 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 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 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 - 1965In 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 THOMASThe 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 PUERORUMThe 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 PERVERTEDLent 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 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 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
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
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