Monthly Archives: October 2017

Moments of Moral Clarity REGIS NICOLL Crisis Magazine 26 October 17   Probably each of us has had an experience that awakened our conscience, one that changed the way we looked at the world and ourselves, a moment of moral … Continue reading →

Pope Francis Refuses to Answer the Dubia – What Happens Next? OnePeterFive October 25, 2017 [ Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum ]Written by  John F. Salza, Esq. Part One of a Two-Part Series Now that it has … Continue reading →

OCTOBER 25, 2017 Talk to Your Father CRISIS MAGAZINE ANTHONY ESOLEN [ Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum } In a recent article for Crisis, I took to task Fr. James Martin, S.J., for calling it a cause for celebration, … Continue reading →

In the Light of the Law A Canon Lawyer’s Blog Sententia communis? Just ‘sententia communis’? October 25, 2017 My friend and colleague Dr. Robert Fastiggi recently replied to Dr. Edward Feser regarding Feser’s defense of capital punishment in capital cases. … Continue reading →

In the Light of the Law A Canon Lawyer’s Blog A note on Madison’s (not James) funeral policy October 25, 2017 One might be willing to have an informed and dispassionate discussion (that pretty much rules out the internet) about whether … Continue reading →

  If you are like me you probably have no difficulty accepting the supernatural character of the apparitions and other phenomena associated with the events of Fatima of 1917 since they have received the ‘nihil obstat’ and the approval of the Holy See.   Also, like … Continue reading →

 Is that the smoke of Satan we see illuminated by the sun’s rays coming through the window of the Sala Clementina, the popes’ audience hall? THE WAR AGAINST CARDINAL SARAH by Marco Tosatti FIRST THINGS 10 . 23 . 17 … Continue reading →

Altar with chalice and Missal in the Basilica of St Nicholas in Rome (t0m15/us.fotolia.com) Liturgy, Authority, and Postmodernity As our self-consciously modern liturgical rites approach their fiftieth birthdays we would do well not to cling to them uncritically. Nor can … Continue reading →

Billy Graham is now 96 years-old with Parkinson’s disease. In January, 2000 civic leaders in Charlotte, North Carolina, invited their favorite son, Billy Graham, to a luncheon in his honor. Billy initially hesitated to accept the invitation because he struggles with … Continue reading →

In the Light of the Law by Edward A. Peters, JCD A Canon Lawyer’s Blog [ Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum ] Boudway vs. Murray is not even close October 25, 2017 The nonchalance with which some non-canonists … Continue reading →