Louie Archive
If no one power can enforce order, our world will suffer from a global order deficit… As the present state of affairs makes plain, truer words were never spoken. With nearly the entire world fixated on the dangers of COVID-19, real or imagined, …
Have you ever wondered why the Nicene Creed contains a very specific reference to Pontius Pilate? It is a rather curious thing when one considers that the only others named therein, in addition to the Persons of the Blessed Trinity, are Jesus Christ …
On January 24, 2020, the Committees on Health and Foreign Relations held a closed-door meeting with Senators (no staffers allowed) to update them on the “novel coronavirus.” This was three days after the only person in the US at the time had been …
Catholic social media has been all abuzz in recent days over a NJ parish, Church of the Precious Blood in Monmouth Beach, that had issued the following announcement on its website over the weekend: Confessions Are Now Available for Those Who Are Vaccinated …
On March 6, the “God of Surprises” (aka Jorge Bergoglio) addressed an interreligious meeting with Muslims and Jews in Iraq. To no one’s surprise, he began by twisting Sacred Scripture in order to lend an air of credibility to the false claims he …
As I write, Bergoglian Rome is being applauded in certain conservative and quasi-traditional circles for its recently published Responsum of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to a dubium regarding the blessing of the unions of persons of the same sex. …
This morning, the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera published an article, which, according to its headline, is an “Interview with Ratzinger.” In this day and age of rampant fakery, it has never been more obvious that “news” items are more often scripted and …
In his 1947 Encyclical on the Sacred Liturgy, Mediator Dei, Pope Pius XII attempted to set the record straight – and prophetically so, as we shall see – concerning the true relationship between the sacred liturgy and sound doctrine. He described the issue …
I recently received a copy of Opera Omnia of St. Robert Bellarmine vol. 2: On the Church, from Mediatrix Press, translated from the Latin by Ryan Grant. It includes On Councils, On the Church Militant, and On the Marks of the Church. (See …
Lent begins tomorrow. How timely. If ever this world was in need of prayer and penance, and an outpouring of grace, it is now. It is our nature as Catholics, I suppose, to enter this season hopeful that Easter Sunday will inaugurate a …
