I watched a great documentary about Jimi Hendrix (the greatest rock guitarist ever) last night, called Voodoo Child. It was taken solely from his own words. He noted that his musical influences were not only the great black musicians like Muddy Waters, Jimmy Reed, and Chuck Berry, but also white musicians like Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Elvis, and Bob Dylan (whom he idolized) and he said (close paraphrase): “I don’t see color; I see people.” Indeed, it was white English... Read more
Catholic apologist and author Karl Keating wrote: Nearly all contemporary Catholic music is dreck. That already was old news when Thomas Day wrote Why Catholics Can’t Sing in 1992. I don’t visit Evangelical churches much, but my impression is that, while they may have (relatively) large music ministries, the music is no better. It is Protestant dreck instead of Catholic dreck. It may sound better because performed by larger ensembles with better instrumentation, but it’s still pop music. I don’t necessarily... Read more
[A person (words in blue) commented on closed communion, in replying to my “Treatise on Transubstantiation in Reply to Protestants”] *** This seems much ado about very little difference. For years I went to both the Lutheran (ELCA) and the Catholic church every weekend, receiving communion at both services. I did my best to think differently, transubstantiation in the Catholic church and consubstantiation in the Lutheran church. But it seemed very much [the] same: communion, bread and wine, with fellow... Read more
Communion in one kind is not automatically a “trivialization” (as a Protestant critic charged). The fact remains that given the assumption of bodily Real Presence, Jesus is fully present under either form (since He can’t be divided). This is a biblical teaching: 1 Corinthians 11:27 (RSV, as throughout) Whoever, therefore, eats the bread or drinks the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of profaning the body and blood of the Lord. Note the all-important “or.”... Read more
The following exchange was with an anti-Catholic Protestant named Douglas Mabry. The original debate had to do with the communion of saints, but the details of that are not my present concern. Rather, it is with the general principle of how misunderstandings are to be ascertained and corrected, and how people rationalize that they understand what they in fact do not understand at all (something that anti-Catholics habitually do when it comes to Catholicism). His words will be in blue.... Read more
This more absolute position against contraception and in favor of large families (known as “Quiverfull”) is one that Protestant friends of ours who have lots of kids have called “divine family planning.” In this thinking, married couples simply have sex, with no need to plan at all. They don’t even need to think about it. They simply “let nature take its course” (which entails God’s Providence in the end, in this matter, as is everything else in some sense). Whatever... Read more
An Anglo-Catholic (words in blue) on the Coming Home Network board asked: Shalom to all and I hope you can answer my question about this topic. I am familiar with the general rule throughout the centuries concerning the Church–by papal pronouncement or via a synod or council–speaking on a matter of faith and morals and making what comes to be accepted as a binding doctrine of faith for all the faithful. The teachings of the first seven councils were to... Read more
[completó el 3-16-18. 199 páginas] [diseño de la cubierta por Dave Armstrong; imagen de fondo de la cubierta de Andrew C. de Bucarest, Rumania] [para informaciones de compras, ir a la parte inferior de la página] *** CONTENIDO I. Biblia / Tradición 1. Tradición no es una palabra indigna 2. Sola Escritura y Juicio privado – Diálogo ficticio con un protestante 3. Biblia y Tradición: “Mantened la Tradición . . .” (de A Biblical Defense of Catholicism) 4. Refutación de Sola... Read more
1. Pope St. John XXIII (1958-1963): despised, because he began Vatican II, which they despise as anti-traditional and “neo-Catholic.” And he talked about ecumenism; said nice stuff about Protestants . . . 2. Blessed [soon to be canonized] Pope Paul VI (1963-1978): despised because he presided over the ending of Vatican II, which they despise, and because he didn’t (with the possible fleeting exception of Humanae Vitae) sufficiently clarify Catholic doctrine over against the liberals who were wreaking havoc... Read more
Folks, I called all this years ago. My first book on the radical Catholic reactionaries, entitled, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries was completed in 2002. It had chapters called, “Post-Vatican II ‘Liberal’ Popes” and “Was Blessed Pope John Paul II a ‘Modernist’?” It’s all the same mentality. This is one of the trademarks of reactionary thought: pope-bashing. And if you bash one pope, you will bash any pope. I wrote about the same thing in my second book about reactionary Catholics:... Read more
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