Yearly Archives: 2016

Here are some words of wisdom Chesterton might have said if he were alive today !!! It appears the October surprise has arrived, both in Rome and in the USA.  The forces of evil are visibly loosed.  The media jihad … Continue reading →

NEWMAN ON THE LAITY Rev. Michael Sharkey   (This article has already appeared in GREGORIANUM 68, 1-2 [1987], pages 339-346). “What is the province of the laity? To hunt, to shoot, to entertain,” (1) wrote Monsignor George Talbot in protest … Continue reading →

TRUMP AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE LOCKER ROOM: [  Emphasis and {commentary} by Abyssum  ] Ever since I saw the Donald Trump video from 2005, I’ve had two thoughts running through my head about it. The first is surprise at … Continue reading →

The Orthodoxy of the Body of the Faithful during the Supremacy of Arianism By Blessed John Henry Newman [ Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum ] THE episcopate, whose action was so prompt and concordant at Nicæa on … Continue reading →

   Conscience IT seems that there are extreme cases in which Conscience may come into collision with the word of a Pope, and is to be followed in spite of that word. Now I wish to place this proposition on … Continue reading →

The Worst Pope Ever Michelle Arnold November 12, 2014 http://www.catholic.com/blog/michelle-arnold/the-worst-pope-ever Jeremy Irons, as Alexander VI, “The Borgias” . . Not long after John Paul II died, I received an apologetics question from someone who was corresponding with a hard-core Traditionalist—”probably … Continue reading →

by Ross Douthat http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/05/will-pope-francis-break-the-church/389516/ In 1979, almost a year into the papacy of John Paul II, a novel called The Vicar of Christ spent 13 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list. The work of a Princeton legal scholar, … Continue reading →

http://www.catholicworldreport.com/item/4408/the_offthecuff_and_outoffocus_papacy.aspx “We assume that the bishops are well-versed in the writings and thought of John Paul II, and thus know his teachings about marriage and family. But most are not. And many of them have very little grounding in such … Continue reading →

    The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine — but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would … Continue reading →