Religion

Is this finally the last straw? Are EWTN and the History Channel really worth risking the slightest exposure of your children to such images as you accidently hit Fox News on the remote? I’m with Mr. Aaron Wolf, who says it is long past time to smash your television http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Wolf/NewsAW083003.html: “There is an invader in [...]

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I keep up occasional correspondence with the prioress of a cloistered Carmelite monastery, and she pointed out to me that our daughter’s baptism (Jan. 2nd) coincided with the birthday of St. Therese of Lisieux. I didn’t know this. Now this is exceedingly cool because I have a devotion to St. Therese, and last year I [...]

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“Almighty God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favour and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and [...]

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Gerard Serafin reminds us on his web log that today is the feast of Blessed Junipero Serra. If California Catholics were not half asleep, today would be one of the biggest days of the year — processions, pilgrimages, festivals, parades, bullfights, mariachi bands, margaritas, the works. I pray to see his canonization in my own [...]

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Traditionalists are often accused of having a “hermeneutic of suspicion”, meaning that they don’t trust the hierarchy enough, that they are too critical of new ways of doing things, that they suspect whatever proceeds from the post-conciliar Church to be somehow an agent of Modernism. In fact, this criticism is fair, although there are as [...]

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The greatly inspiring but now http://www.caelumetterra.com/ defunct Caelum et Terra journal was, for a time, the pre-eminent “crunchy Catholic” magazine in the English language. In a new blog by the same name, a former editor of the journal describes the C & T vision thus: “Let me just free-associate for a moment: our vision was [...]

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Men — especially married men — should refrain from dreaming about a Perfect Wife. The wife God gave you is perfect for you: that should be enough. Nevertheless, if I had to describe the Perfect Wife, her characteristics would look like this … First and foremost, the perfect wife will be a Catholic who is [...]

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This grisly murder http://michellemalkin.com/archives/001248.htm has Islamic terror written all over it. Hossam Armanious, 47, who along with his wife and two daughters was found stabbed to death in his Jersey City home early Friday, would regularly debate religion in a Middle Eastern chat room, one source said. Armanious, an Egyptian Christian, was well known for [...]

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