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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PAPERS WRITTEN BY OTHERSI. Separation of Church & StateThe secular doctrine of the separation of Church and State is not part of the Church's teaching. It never has been. It is not now. We commend to readers an excellent article by David Palm demonstrating this at the following link to the Seattle Catholic website -- http://seattlecatholic.com/a050615.html II. Subjectivism & the HistoriansWe offer for your attention an opinion piece by Australian author
Peter Ryan, 'Apologise to Blainey', published in The Australian on
15th December 2005. It damns the subjectivist academics at
Melbourne University who contrived the removal from the University
of Professor Geoffrey Blainey for daring in 1984 to criticise
political correctness in the guise of multiculturalism. His
reasonable views have been proved right by the tumultuous events
in Sydney in the last week. III. Freemasonry & the Church in BrazilWe provide this link to an article on the Seattle Catholic website we commend to our readers entitled: 'The Young Friar and the Emperor', by O. M. Alves. It deals with the conflict between the Catholic bishops and Freemasons in Brazil in the late 19th century --http://www.seattlecatholic.com/a051102.htm IV. The Witness of Pius XIIWe attach a link to this fine paper by American writer George J Marlin published on the 51st anniversary of the death of Pope Pius XII on The Catholic Thing. https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2009/10/07/the-witness-of-pius-xii/ Also here V. The Lost Tools of Learning Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) graduated from Oxford in 1916
with first class honours in modern languages and mediaeval
literature after which she taught briefly. Between 1922 and 1931
she worked as an advertising copy writer. She published a popular
series of detective novels featuring the aristocratic sleuth, Lord
Peter Wimsey, a series of radio plays, a defence of Christianity
and a respected translation of Dante's 'The Divine Comedy'. VI. Genesis & LiteralismThis paper, by Australian theologian, Fr Peter Joseph, was written in 2006 to answer certain of the claims made by an Australian, the late Gerard Keane, and by Hugh Owen of the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation, an American based organisation. Fr Joseph has given permission for its publication on this website. more VII. Prophets of our timeWhen, in the years to come, the Church raises up bishops and popes who recognise the shortcomings of the Second Vatican Council, and acknowledge the great evils which it has produced among the faithful, two men will be recognised for their devotion to the task of its unmasking in the face of overwhelming opposition from the Church’s intelligentia. They are the Italian theologian (and layman), Romano Amerio, and the English layman, Michael Davies, both now deceased. Amerio’s work, Iota Unum, published in Italian in 1985, and translated into many languages since[1] , and Davies’ many books, but especially his The Second Vatican Council and Religious Liberty[2], have been standards for those troubled by the theological problems precipitated by the Council. We are pleased to refer the reader to an article which has just
appeared on the chiesa website, the rather clumsily
expressed The Defenders of Tradition Want the Infallible
Church back, access to which he may obtain via the
following link— http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1344019?eng=y
It may mark a significant step in the growth in disenchantment with the Second Vatican Council and its determinations. Michael Baker [1] See Iota Unum, A Study of Changes in the Catholic Church in the XXth Century, trans. from the Second Italian Edition by Rev. Fr John P Parsons, Kansas City, 1996. [2] Long Prairie, Minnesota (The Neumann Press), 1992. VIII. A Theologian's Questions
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10th April, 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the death of Evelyn Waugh who died on Easter Sunday, 1966. God in His providence has ordained that the anniversary should be marked in singular fashion. An anonymous priest who calls himself Monsieur L'Abbé has written a commentary on the Pope's recent Apostolic Exhortation comparing the principles obtaining at the time of the setting of Waugh's most famous novel, Brideshead Revisited, with those the Pope sees as applicable today. The effect is memorable. The article may be viewed on the Rorate Caeli website at http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2016/04/guest-op-ed-pope-francis-pro-mundum.html#more Alternatively, the reader may view a copy of it here. |
We reproduce for the edification of our readers the content of a post on Fr Z’s Blog more
We reproduce here a copy of an extract from Don Pietro Leone’s The Family Under Attack which lists the causes that have left us with such ineffectual bishops. more
This is a reproduction of part of chapter 2 of H J A Sire’s Phoenix from the Ashes (Kettering Ohio, 2015) where the author nails the lies purveyed by Protestant and agnostic commentators down the centuries about the effects wrought in society under the influence of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages.
The author notes the adoption, under the Church’s influence during that splendid time of all that was best in other civilisations ; of her insistence on the universality of truth across every discipline and the acceptance, and worth, of the need for debate and disputation to arrive at the truth ; of the laying then of the foundations of the science of logic and of modern science ; of the elaboration, in the face of great opposition, of the one true philosophy grounded in reality (to the exclusion of all ideology) ; of the establishment of the roots of democracy ; of the origins of the university, the hospital, and of a dozen other institutions we take for granted in the modern world, institutions over whose provenance we never trouble ourselves such is the arrogance of modern parochialism.
We recommend the entire book. A review of its content may be found here—http://www.superflumina.org/PDF_files/review-phoenix-from-the-ashes.pdf The reproduction of the part of chapter 2 may be found here.
Commentator Don Pietro Leone has performed a singular service for Christ’s Church in publishing, on rorate-caeli, an analysis of the degradation that has befallen the Church’s teaching on marriage and sexuality at the hands of popes and bishops over the last 60 years. There are five sections : the references are as follows :
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-church-and-asmodeus-part-1.html#more
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-church-and-asmodeus-part-2.html#more
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-church-and-asmodeus-part-3-and.html#more
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-evils-of-amoris-laetitia-church-and.html#more
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-church-and-asmodeus-part-5.html#more
There are one or two inaccuracies which do not disturb the trust. The Master General of the Dominican Order referred to at the time of the debating of the issues was not Fr Michael Browne (who was not, in any event, created a Cardinal until 1971), but Fr Aniceto Fernandez. Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae did not precede, but followed, Gaudium et Spes, whose alteration of the Church’s constant teaching on the end of marriage to accommodate the Protestant view he adopted. The reader should note carefully Don Leone’s reference in the text to the critical issue of finality, and the systematic failure of the Council’s bishops, as of the popes and heads of Vatican dicasteries thereafter, to advert to it. This failure, which as Don Leone rightly says, demonstrates aversion to scholastic thinking (read “thinking grounded in the philosophy of St Thomas”) justifies the contention that the Second Vatican Council was not an ecumenical, or general, council of the Catholic Church. Don Leone puts the issue in a nutshell : “The end, or finality, of a thing determines its nature”.
We recommend the paper in all its parts for our readers’ close attention. For those who wish to read it at one sitting, we have reproduced it here.
Here is a further extract from the admirable study by H J A Sire, Phoenix from the Ashes, which we reviewed at http://www.superflumina.org/PDF_files/review-phoenix-from-the-ashes.pdf We commend the book to all visitors to this website.
The author demonstrates the clumsy attempts by the reformers to justify their rejection of God’s authority in selective appeals to Councils of the Catholic Church even as they insisted on the rejection of the authority of His Church and of His popes. Typical of their hypocrisy is the acceptance of the Church’s position on the procession of the Holy Spirit from Father and Son (against the view of the eastern Orthodox). He writes : “The Filioque doctrine, which all the Protestant churches retain in the Creed, is not defined by the first four councils, or indeed the first eight. It derives its dogmatic status from its incorporation into the Creed by papal authority in the eleventh century; in other words it stands or falls by papal infallibility.” The extract is available here.
A suggested diocesan, or archdiocesan, letter from a Catholic bishop, one whose sole focus is on Christ and His Church and is not distracted by the zeitgeist of the age. more
On his blogsite http://liturgicalnotes.blogspot.com.au/ Fr John Hunwicke has reproduced his comments on the above in the course of considering Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s text “They have uncrowned Him”. To balance his offering we repeat our own contribution published back in 2016. more
Robert de Mattei has published an analysis of the effects of recent conduct of Pope Francis which reveal his submission to the demands of Freemasonry. more
Italian Catholic philosopher, Paolo Pasqualucci, has published 26 points of rupture with Catholic tradition found in the documents of Vatican II. It will repay readers to study them closely. more
This 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 following is a link to the authoritative article (cited by Don Pietro Leone) by 86 women around the world opposing any use of vaccines that rely in any way on elements of the bodies of aborted children—https://edwardpentin.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/STATEMENT-The-Voice-of-Women-in-Defense-of-Unborn-Babies-and-in-Opposition-to-Abortion-tainted-Vaccines-WORD-DOC.pdf