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Everybody knows that Halloween is just the baptized pagan feast of Samhain, right? Everybody’s wrong. Here: have some actual history, courtesy of Yr. Obdt. Svt.: One game some postmodern people never tire of is attempting to shock Catholics with the news that something or other regarding the Faith is really just warmed-over paganism. (Though curiously, one never hears that people who say “Today is Thursday” are worshipers of Thor.) And a favorite claim among such folk is the old chestnut... Read more
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…over at The Catholic Weekly: Here’s the deal: the Evangelists are not tape recorders. They are people telling, as best they can, the true stories of what Jesus said and did. But they are not always and everywhere giving us the exact words of Jesus. We are getting eyewitness testimony (for more on that I strongly recommend Richard Bauckham’s book Jesus and the Eyewitnesses), but it is eyewitness testimony of sayings and events that are being relayed to an audience with... Read more
…faces deportation for the crime of needing hospital care according to the super-duper prolife Trump Administration. The administration is backed by the court prophets of both Crisis and Liesite News who, using the unborn as human shields, reject the Church’s teaching that human life and dignity are to be protected from conception to natural death and instead declare that acceptance of the Church’s whole teaching is, absurdly, a “poison pill” aimed at attacking the unborn. So we live in an... Read more
Matthew Schmitz speaks the truth here. Like Fr. Martin’s Christ, Waugh’s hero learns from a wise woman. He sees that Christianity is not a matter of blood, or of race, or of victory in this world. It requires accepting defeat in this life before promising triumph in the next. A Catholic cannot be certain that his line will continue or his country thrive. He only knows that the gates of hell will not prevail against Christ’s Church. This is why... Read more
in the nerdliest episode of Connecting the Dots EVAR! Read more
Bishop Barron wrote a piece a while back on Grace and Karma: A karmic approach says that, by a cosmic spiritual law, we are punished or rewarded according to our moral activities. If we do bad things, we will suffer, either in this life or a life to come. And if we do good things, we will be rewarded, again either here or in the hereafter. Karma might not be immediate, as is the law of gravity (remember John Lennon’s... Read more
Demonstrating that nothing ever really changes, blogger Laura Spires Freeburn translates a German Reformation era pamphlet that sounds uncannily like any internet argument today between Protestants and Catholics: In honor of the 500th anniversary of Luther’s 95 Theses, here is my heavily redacted version of a Reformation-era dialog by Hans Sachs, namely A dialog on the hypocrisy of the religious and their vows, through which, despising the blood of Christ, they presume to become holy. in which Peter the cobbler... Read more
A reader writes: Hey Mark, my mother is in the hospital for open heart surgery. Can you please ask everyone to pray for her? I don’t know if you remember her or me for that matter but we all met on several occasions along time ago in Washington. Her name is Hope Klaus. Thank you in advance. There is a gofundme for her hospital bills but at minimum I am just asking for prayers. Father, hear our prayer for Hope’s... Read more
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