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. …
By: Randy Engel An Interview With Ex-Opus Dei Numerary Eileen Johnson – Part 2 Engel: Eileen, let me change the subject for a moment to a most unusual virtue – that of “non-giving.” It seems that Opus has twisted the expression “It …
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 …
By: Randy Engel An Interview with Ex-Opus Dei Numerary Eileen Johnson – Part 1 Introduction The following interview with ex-Opus Dei numerary, Eileen Johnson, was conducted over a period of several months in 2020 and 2021. Eileen is a native of Yorkshire, England, …
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 …
By: John Lane “very crisis separates an entity from what is alien to it, and simultaneously preserves the essential character of that entity…” – Romano Amerio Sedevacantism is the opinion that the popes since John XXIII have been illegitimate, not true popes, …
And God created man to his own image: to the image of God he created him: male and female he created them. (Genesis 1:27) “Oh, really?” respond the minions of Satan. “We’ll show you who’s in charge!” In our day, the lines between …
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