See book and purchase information. *** It’s because they are desperate for [one they wrongly believe to be] “one of them” to subvert and control the despised Catholic Church. They played this game with Pope St. John XXIII (who to this day is pretended to be a liberal) and (initially) Pope St. John Paul the Great also. Extreme wishful thinking and a twisting of the facts into their own agendas. . . I have pointed out that my “hero” St.... Read more
In the latest of a relentless, ever-more-extreme series of unhinged, reality-denying slanders of the Holy Father, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, in an interview on 29 March 2020 with the rabidly reactionary Remnant (it should have been three days later on April Fools’ Day), stated: We must realize that when the new regime helps the poor, it does so with absolutely no reference whatever to the supernatural. All we are seeing is works of corporal mercy, whereas works of spiritual mercy have been utterly... Read more
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been saying all along that models regarding coronavirus and epidemics in general are only as good as the starting assumptions they begin with. Nevertheless, he has been following the prominent ones (especially the Imperial College / Neil Ferguson model) and they formed the basis for his statements of estimated total casualties. The Imperial College model predicted (on whatever basis it established) 2.2 million deaths in the US, and 500,000 in the UK. Ferguson later downgraded the... Read more
Social Distancing Was Used in the 1918 Flu Pandemic and Has Been Shown Again and Again to be Highly Effective Chris Ferrara writes for the radical Catholic reactionary site, The Remnant. Predictable as the sunrise, the current coronavirus crisis has immediately brought out the incipient wacko conspiratorialist paranoia that this group of quasi-schismatics has been specializing in for over fifty years. Writing on 4-6-20, Ferrara pulls out all the stops in characterizing the crisis and the prescribed societal treatment as... Read more
With Catholic Theologian Dr. Robert Fastiggi and Apologist Karl Keating On 3 April 2020, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò: Pope Francis’ biggest critic among the bishops, issued a statement called “You Have Said So.” Here is the bulk of it (my bolding added): On March 25, the 2020 Pontifical Yearbook was published with a real novelty. It may seem like a typographical trifle, in the part dedicated to the reigning pontiff, but this is not the case. Until last year, in fact,... Read more
[edited with my introduction in 1991; later published in The Coming Home Newsletter, Jan/ / Feb. 1997] ***** Englishman Ronald Knox (1888-1957) converted to Catholicism from Anglicanism in 1917, and was the chaplain at Oxford from 1926 to 1939. In the 1940s, he translated the Bible, based on the Latin Vulgate, a work, according to a scholarly Protestant source, “generally agreed to be a remarkable achievement and among the best of modern renderings” (1). His many important books include Enthusiasm,... Read more
These replies, amounting eventually to a general and multi-faceted defense, started when I read a Facebook post from one of my Canadian cousins who is very dear to me (I am half-Canadian; my father was born there) . . . expressing Canadian anger over Trump ordering a company (3M) to stop selling N95 masks to Canada. ***** I will temporarily suspend my resolution to not talk politics during Lent. :-) Only for you . . . I’d really like to... Read more
“Radical Catholic Reactionary” is an objective, sociological-type term that I coined myself after much interaction on these issues and much thought and reflection. The initial impulse and main intention was to differentiate more extreme views from what I call “legitimate traditionalism.” Such clear and definite differences do exist, and they are important enough to justify a term being used to describe the worldview. The previous terms were usually “radtrad” or “ultra-traditionalist.” Traditionalists consistently (and with some justification) complained that these terms... Read more
[edited in 1991: mostly his own words, with just brief comments of my own; published by The Coming Home Newsletter, March / April 1997] *** Malcolm Muggeridge’s spiritual evolution is fascinating (as is all that he writes). As early as 1925, Muggeridge wrote to his father: “I want God to play tunes through me. He plays, but I, the reed, am out of tune.” (1) In 1958 he wrote in his diary: Christianity, to me, is like a hopeless love affair.... Read more
Is There an Essential Difference? Original cover of my book, from which this is drawn (3rd edition: 2015). See book and purchase information. ***** I have maintained that the apostolic deposit is not necessarily confined to one philosophical framework and one only, and that different philosophical approaches can be applied to it (as facilitators of increased understanding) without this necessarily involving any “corruption.” Catholics hold that the “original categorical framework” is the apostolic deposit itself, as understood in light of... Read more
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