Here’s a link to the article about the pro life Christian who was shot and killed yesterday by someone who was ‘offended’ by his message. This news story was not carried by any of the major news channels except Fox News for a time, but now it no longer appears. Why is it that the murder of the late term abortion doctor made prime time news and the hunt for his killer was in the news for days, but the... Read more
The Cowper Madonna hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. Sometimes a picture just grabs you. How many times have I seen a Raphael Madonna? Maybe too many, and so you kind of take them for granted. Then one day I was visiting Washington and walked into this gallery and there was the Cowper Madonna and I was transfixed. Suddenly I not only grasped Raphael’s genius and exquisite mastery of his art, but more importantly I saw... Read more
You know hon, when I was studying Ecclesiastical Haberdashery at the University of Salamanca this was not just, you know, “When is the right occasion for a parish priest to wear a ferraiola?” or “Does a Monsignor get to wear purple socks?” or “Should a canon regular be allowed to wear scarlet trim on his pajamas?” No, hon. Listen. We had to write papers on very important subjects you know? Like once I had to write this whole term paper... Read more
Yesterday I did not have time to post on Pope St Gregory the Great. New Liturgical Movement posts the Holy Father’s teaching on St Gregory here. He puts it better than I can. Read more
Anglicans are fond of the term ‘via media’ or ‘the middle way’ to describe their church. The theory is that the Anglican Church steers a middle course between Catholicism and Protestantism. This middle way is inclusive. There is room for everyone, and differences of doctrine and moral principles need to be tolerated so that this broad ‘middle way’ will be able to accommodate everyone. Cardinal Newman observed that the famed ‘via media’ was never more than a theory. In fact... Read more
Guest blogger Caitlin O’Rourke is a member of St Bridget’s, Church, High Dudgeon, New Jersey. Caitlin is eight years old. I went to school yesterday for the first time I mean the first time in third grade because at St Bridget’s we start later than other schools and Fr. Florsheim was there and he’s our new priest and I really like him because he’s younger than the other one who was fat and had lots of hair in his nostrils... Read more
Readers have asked whether Todd has any thoughts about the Kennedy funeral. As it happens, Todd’s piece on the funeral is published here. Read more
Our MSM guest blogger, journalist Todd Unctuous pays tribute to one of the greatest of all Americans. The eyes of a nation weep today for one of the world’s greatest statesmen has passed away. Ted Kennedy was the last of a great family of social reformers. For years he was the spokesman for the poor and the downcast. Coming from a fantastically wealthy and powerful family as he did, it was heartwarming to know that the poor were always on... Read more
Guest blogger, The Rev’d Humphrey Blytherington weighs in on public nudity… Rev’d Blytherington is Vicar of St Hilda’s, Little Snoring with All Saints, Great Snoring. He is a graduate of Plymouth University. He completed his studies for the ministry at Latimer Hall, Durham. He is married to Daphne and enjoys home brewing, model railroading and is an avid member of the Great Snoring Morris Dancers. The other morning I was enjoying my bacon and eggs and baked beans when Daphne... Read more
There are two tricks of the trade that counter each other. Rationalism and fideism. The first exalts human reason over faith and the second exalts faith over human reason. Both are heresies because a heresy is not the teaching of falsehood, but the emphasis of a truth to the exclusion of other truths. The rationalist is in the same crazy bin as the follower of scientism. Scientism teaches that there is no other knowledge than that which can be discovered... Read more
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
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