One (despite the “politically correct” thought police so prevalent today) is entitled to have an opinion in a scenario where thousands of people are dying, and a good number (many hundreds) take drug X, and in fact, get well (often, dramatically and quickly so). It doesn’t take a science or medical degree (or any degree) to conclude that drug X may indeed be adequate to the purpose: anymore than it takes such knowledge to know and understand that water helps... Read more
In the course of vigorous discussions over my defense of the Pauline Mass (aka Novus Ordo or “New Mass”), my traditionalist friend David Palm (blue font) made the following statements / arguments (each paragraph stands on its own) in my combox in June 2008 (all bolded emphases are my own): * * * * * The heart of the effective traditionalist argument isn’t that the various aspects reintroduced into the Pauline rite are intrinsically wrong–there is acknowledgement that they did at one time exist in... Read more
The following comments were taken from a Facebook thread; further below, I collect a large number of related Bible verses. * * * * * That, in the early Church, the faithful stood when receiving into their hands the consecrated particle can hardly be questioned. . . . St. Dionysius of Alexandria, writing to one of the popes of his time, speaks emphatically of “one who has stood by the table and has extended his hand to receive the Holy Food”... Read more
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
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