Yearly Archives: 2017

WHAT IS DEATH ? Detail from the Burial of the Count of Orgaz by El Greco +++++++++++++ A LEXICON OF WORDS AND PHRASES TO BE USED BY THE MEDICAL AND LEGAL PROFESSIONS IN DEFINING AND DISCUSSING DEATH DEATH is the total permanent … Continue reading →

Dubia on Amoris Laetitia: “We Must go Further” MAY 02, 2017 BY FSSPX.NEWS [Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum] In an editorial published on April 24, 2017, in La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, journalist Riccardo Cascioli gives his straightforward thoughts … Continue reading →

Evangelicals Being A Creative Minority By ROD DREHER • May 3, 2017, 11:38 PM . A reader e-mails the most personally encouraging thing I’ve read in a while. I’ve edited it slightly at her request to protect her privacy: FWIW, the Christ-following Evangelicals in our … Continue reading →

Anthony Esolen (Saint Joseph/Flickr) . Running Towards Something Good By ROD DREHER • May 4, 2017, 10:03 AM . Prof. Anthony Esolen announced this morning that he is leaving Providence College to teach at Thomas More College in New Hampshire.  You may recall that … Continue reading →

May 3, 2017, 9:34 am An excerpt from George Neumayr’s new book, “The Political Pope.” The election of a liberal Jesuit to the papacy thrilled Democrats in the United States, whose unholy alliance with the Catholic left goes back many decades. … Continue reading →

Amoris Laetitia, Life Site News, Schism Watch Rome conference: Amoris Laetitia is Deliberately Ambiguous and Confusing 9 hours ago 0 42 Rome conference: Amoris Laetitia is Deliberately Ambiguous and Confusing We’ve known that all along. ROME, Italy, April 25, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — “Only a … Continue reading →

giulio napolitano / Shutterstock.com.. Jeanne Smits, Paris correspondent NEWSCATHOLIC CHURCH Mon May 1, 2017 – 12:05 pm EST Pope Francis’ teaching on marriage is not ‘in the Spirit of Christ’: scholar  Amoris Laetitia ,  Anna Silvas ,  Confusion In The Church ,  Pope Francis May 1, … Continue reading →

Sully’s Sympathy For Neoreaction By ROD DREHER • May 2, 2017, 10:50 AM Sangoiri/Shutterstock) Andrew Sullivan has really been on fire lately. I think his leaving blogging and returning to long-form essays has been great for him. In his latest piece for New … Continue reading →

In this 2015 file photo, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI meets with seminarians from the Diocese of Faensa-Modigliana, Italy, in the Vatican Gardens. (Diocese of Faenza-Modigliana) . . THE NATIONAL CATHOLIC REGISTER  MAY. 1, 2017 . . Benedict XVI Warns of … Continue reading →

  Settimo Cielodi Sandro Magister  30 apr 17 A “Low-Intensity” Pope, As the Times Demand   The most updated diagnoses of the religious phenomenon in the West converge in defining it as “low-intensity.” Fluid, with no more dogmas, without binding … Continue reading →