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Friday, December 28, 2018
Get Out Now: The Compelling Case Against Public Schools - Crisis Magazine
Get Out Now: The Compelling Case Against Public Schools - Crisis Magazine: So many of us have heard indirectly and anecdotally that our public school system is a nationwide wasteland that does harm to children and has wrought havoc upon our culture, values, and sense of history. But has anyone really taken the time and energy to examine this catastrophe at its root? Perhaps not until now. …
Monday, December 10, 2018
Saturday, November 17, 2018
Ethiopia: Islamists bribing Christians to convert | ICN
Ethiopia: Islamists bribing Christians to convert | ICN: Young Christians in Ethiopia are being lured to convert to Islam by promises of jobs, education, help to buy houses and other aid, according to a Christian leader.Christians, desperate to escape poverty, are being bribed to join the Muslim religion, Aid to the Church in Need was ...
Monday, November 12, 2018
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018
St Januarius | ICN
St Januarius | ICN: Martyr. Patron of Naples. This early saint was Bishop of Benevento when the Emperor Diocletian turned his fury on Christians. One day St Januarius visited some deacons and lay people who had been thrown into a dungeon for their faith. The jailers informed the authorities and he was arre...
Monday, September 10, 2018
Monday, September 3, 2018
Friday, August 31, 2018
St Aidan | ICN
St Aidan | ICN: Monk of Iona, first bishop and abbot of Lindisfarne. Born in Ireland, St Aidan came to England in the 7th century when King Oswald was living in exile with the monks at Iona, during the Mercian invasion. The King became Christian and when he regained his throne he gave Aidan the island...
Thursday, August 23, 2018
St Rose of Lima | ICN
St Rose of Lima | ICN: The first saint of the New World, Saint Rose is the patron of South America and the Philippines.She was born into a moderately wealthy Spanish family in Lima, Peru in 1586. The family lost everything everything when their business failed. Rose worked in the garden all day a...
Cardinal Nichols expresses sorrow and shame about abuse in the Church | ICN
Cardinal Nichols expresses sorrow and shame about abuse in the Church | ICN: Cardinal Vincent Nichols has written to clergy of Westminster diocese in response to the letter from Pope Francis on the abuse of children in the Church.In the letter, the Cardinal expresses sorrow and shame, saying:'I am so sorry for the hurt that has been caused, primari...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
St Symphorian | ICN
St Symphorian | ICN: Martyr. This third or fourth century saint was one of the most revered martyrs of Roman Gaul. According to tradition, Symphorian was a young nobleman who was converted by Benignus at Autun. When he was accused of showing contempt for the goddess Cybele during a festival in her honour...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Austin Ruse - Former Methodist - The Coming Home Network
Austin Ruse - Former Methodist - The Coming Home Network: Austin Ruse came from a nominally Methodist background, with a few flashes of grace along the way. However, when he was in college and heard a professor attack religion, it...
St Pius X | ICN
St Pius X | ICN: Pope. Born in 1835, he was the son of a shoemaker and postman who lived near Treviso in Italy.He went to the local village school before joining the seminary near Padua. He spent the next 17 years in parish work before being appointed chancellor of the diocese in Treviso. Ni...
Monday, August 13, 2018
Peru: Jesuit priest killed | ICN
Peru: Jesuit priest killed | ICN: A Spanish Jesuit missionary priest working amng the indigenous people in Peru's Amazonia regions has been killed. The body of Father Carlos Riudavets Montes was found on Friday morning with his hands tied and several stab wounds lying in the kitchen of the ValentÃn Salegui school he ra...
Pope Francis: 'It is evil not to do good!' | ICN
Pope Francis: 'It is evil not to do good!' | ICN: In his address to pilgrims gathered in St Peter's Square for the Angelus on Sunday, Pope Francis said being a good Christian is more than merely not doing evil - A good Christian does good and actively opposes evil.'The Pope was reflecting on the day's Second Reading, in which S...
Thursday, August 9, 2018
The Liberal Catholic Legacy: From Strict Separation to 'Social Justice' - Crisis Magazine
The Liberal Catholic Legacy: From Strict Separation to 'Social Justice' - Crisis Magazine: John F. Kennedy delivered a memorable speech in the presidential campaign of 1960, proclaiming the absolute separation of church and state. His words still reverberate among American Catholics, as we saw during the primary season of 2012 when Senator Rick Santorum said Kennedy’s speech made him “throw up.” Naturally, this got our attention and made …
Sunday, July 22, 2018
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The battle is between the Church and the anti-Church the Church of God and anti-God the Church of Christ and anti-Chris
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the battle is between the Church and the anti-Church the Church of God and anti-God the Church of Christ and anti-Christ.
There is a battle on between the retention of Catholic morals, tradition, and authority on the one side, and the active effort to destroy them on the other. The attack will not tolerate us. It will attempt to destroy us. Nor can we tolerate it. We must attempt to destroy it as being the fully equipped and ardent enemy of the Truth by which men live. The duel is to the death.
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There is a battle on between the retention of Catholic morals, tradition, and authority on the one side, and the active effort to destroy them on the other. The attack will not tolerate us. It will attempt to destroy us. Nor can we tolerate it. We must attempt to destroy it as being the fully equipped and ardent enemy of the Truth by which men live. The duel is to the death.
p146-148
The new advance against the Church, what may prove to be the final advance against the Church, what is at any rate the only modern enemy of consequence--is fundamentally materialist. It is materialist in its reading of history, and above all in its proposals for social reform.
Being Atheist, it is characteristic of the advancing wave that repudiates the human reason..
The great Modern Attack (which is more than a heresy) is indifferent to self-contradiction. It merely affirms. It advances like an animal, (spirt of an animal? ed note) counting on strength alone. Indeed, it may be remarked in passing that this may well be the cause of its final defeat; for hitherto reason has always overcome its opponents, and man is the master of the beast through reason.
The Modern Attack in its main character, materialist and atheist and being atheist it is necessarily indifferent to truth. For God is Truth.
Therefore with the advance of this new and terrible enemy against the Faith and the civilization which the Faith produces, there is coming (already here ed note) not only a contempt for beauty but a hatred of it; and immediately upon the heels of this there appears a contempt and hatred for virtue.
The less vicious converts of the enemy, talk vaguely of "a readjustment, a new world, a new order; but they do not begin telling us, as in common reason they should, upon, what principles this new order is to be raised. They do not define the end they have in view.
This Modern Attack professes to be directed towards a certain good, to wit, the abolition of poverty. But it does not tell you why this should be good; it does not admit that its scheme is also to destroy other things which are also by the common consent of mankind good; the family, property (which is the guarantee of individual freedom and individual dignity) humor, mercy, and every form of what we consider right living.
Well, give it what name you like, call it as I do here, "The Modern Attack" or as I think men will soon have to call it "Anti-Christ".
It is not the revolt of the oppressed; it is not the rising of the proletariat against capital injustice and cruelty; it is something from without, some evil spirit
taking advantage of men's distress and at their anger at unjust conditions.
taking advantage of men's distress and at their anger at unjust conditions.
Now that thing is at out gates. Ultimately, of course, it is the fruit of the original break-up of Christendom at the Reformation.
It began with the denial of central authority, it has ended by telling man he is sufficient to himself. and it has set up everywhere great idols to be worshipped as Gods.
It is not only on the communist side (or the progressive left ed note) it appears also in the organizations opposed to them; in the races and nations where mere force has been set up in place of God. These also set up idols to which hideous human sacrifice is paid. By these also justice and the right order are denied.
Friday, May 18, 2018
Irish Pro-lifers Campaign to Keep Abortion Illegal - Crisis Magazine
Irish Pro-lifers Campaign to Keep Abortion Illegal - Crisis Magazine: Ireland may well become the first country to introduce abortion by popular vote. This would follow a thirty-five year campaign by abortion advocates to overcome a 1983 amendment protecting the life of the unborn. The Irish Constitution can be amended by the electorate in a referendum. A referendum put to the people is proposed by …
Monday, May 7, 2018
Sunday, May 6, 2018
Friday, May 4, 2018
The Pope Video: May 2018 - Mission of the Laity | ICN
The Pope Video: May 2018 - Mission of the Laity | ICN: That the lay faithful may fulfil their specific mission, by responding with creativity to the challenges that face the world today....
Monday, April 30, 2018
Monday, April 23, 2018
Being Nice Isn't Good Enough - Crisis Magazine
Being Nice Isn't Good Enough - Crisis Magazine: We often hear that religion is a very private matter. It’s a nice sentiment. It’s inclusive and non-judgmental. And nice non-religious people are really quite pleasant to be around. Catholics can be nice people too. We drive to work to nice offices—I walk to work from a nice rectory—and we return to our households with …
Friday, April 20, 2018
Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Saturday, April 14, 2018
Converted by the Cross - Fr. Jurgen Liias - The Coming Home Network
Converted by the Cross - Fr. Jurgen Liias - The Coming Home Network: As a refugee of post-war Germany, Fr. Jurgen came to America with his family in 1952 and was given shelter by an Episcopal priest in Massachusetts. Fr. Liias went on...
Friday, April 13, 2018
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Pope hopes for fairer distribution of wealth | ICN
Pope hopes for fairer distribution of wealth | ICN: In a preface to a new book out on 12 April, entitled 'Power and Money: Social Justice according to Bergoglio' by Michele Zanzucchi, Pope Francis o...
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
New film tells story of Irish Presentation Nun - Sister India | ICN
New film tells story of Irish Presentation Nun - Sister India | ICN: An Irish Presentation Sister, Sr Loreto Houlihan, is the subject of a documentary - Sister India - produced by Irish film-maker, Myles O'Reilly. Sr...
Pope Francis tells Missionaries of Mercy: We experience God's mercy before we share it | ICN
Pope Francis tells Missionaries of Mercy: We experience God's mercy before we share it | ICN: During an audience on Tuesday with around 550 Missionaries of Mercy, Pope Francis encouraged them saying they provide a much needed service to the ...
Monday, April 9, 2018
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Saturday, March 24, 2018
'Christ was my Lord, and I had to follow him wherever he led me.' - Peter Kreeft - The Coming Home Network
'Christ was my Lord, and I had to follow him wherever he led me.' - Peter Kreeft - The Coming Home Network: In our latest Signposts video short, philosopher and popular Christian author Dr. Peter Kreeft shares a portion of his journey from Reformed Calvinism to the Catholic Church. Raised in the...
US Bishops disappointed by failure of Congress to enact Conscience Protection Act | ICN
US Bishops disappointed by failure of Congress to enact Conscience Protection Act | ICN: Cardinal Timothy M Dolan of New York, chair of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops' (USCCB) Committee on Pro-Life Activities, and Archbishop Jose...
Friday, March 23, 2018
St Toribio of Lima | ICN
St Toribio of Lima | ICN: Reforming bishop. A patron of missionaries and South America.Toribio Alfonso de Mogrobejo was born in Mayorga, in Spain, in 1538. A law pro...
Obama's 'Right to Worship' Ushers in New State Religion - Crisis Magazine
Obama's 'Right to Worship' Ushers in New State Religion - Crisis Magazine: The constitutions or laws of many nations provide for what is called “religious liberty.” In practice, this liberty is under severe restrictions in numerous countries, if it exists at all. The fact is that no one can really talk about religious freedom without examining what the “religion” holds. Grace builds on nature but does not …
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc on Two Philosophers: Descartes and Pascal
Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Belloc on Two Philosophers: Descartes and Pascal: Tomorrow, Anna Mitchell and I will conduct our penultimate discussion of Hilaire Belloc's Characters of the Reformation on the Son Ri...
Why Are You Catholic? - Crisis Magazine
Why Are You Catholic? - Crisis Magazine: Some people call me a street preacher. I’m not a street preacher. The label does roll off the tongue, but it also carries a fairly negative connotation. I could be more accurately described as a street questioner. I spend about a dozen Saturday mornings each year, standing on a street corner adjacent to the Farmer’s …
Monday, March 12, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Thursday, January 4, 2018
The Age of the Android: More Machine Than Man - Crisis Magazine
The Age of the Android: More Machine Than Man - Crisis Magazine: I am not a techy-type and I never thought I would do it, but I did—I took the infernal trouble of customizing my cellular telephone’s ringtone. With tongue in cheek, but not without symbolic intent, I programmed my phone to emit the sound of Darth Vader’s ominous breathing for every incoming call. Though people start …
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