Monthly Archives: September 2019

Newman teaches that, of the two modes of assent, real is assent is the more properly personal assent. For in notional assent I take myself as merely the instance of a type, and as only one among many, whereas in real assent I take myself as this person and no other. And in notional assent I exercise only an abstract cognition, which does not engage me deeply as person. Whereas in real assent, the waters of my personal existence are deeply stirred.

Posted on September 14, 2019 by abyssum

The Personalism of John Henry Newman John F. Crosby THE CATHOLIC THING SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2019 Note: This is the fourth column in our series about Cardinal Newman, who will be canonized on October 13. The previous columns on this … Continue reading →

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The Amazon Synod’s instrumentum laboris, includes a rhapsodic elegy to Stone Age culture beyond the reveries of Rousseau, while neglecting to mention the local practices of child sacrifice, cannibalism, and chronic intertribal belligerence: “They live in communion with the soil, water, trees, animals, and with day and night. Wise elders… promote the harmony of people among themselves and with the cosmos.”

Posted on September 13, 2019 by abyssum

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 Pontifical Chic FR. GEORGE W. RUTLER CRISIS MAGAZINE In 2013, Pope Francis sonorously and rightly enjoined the bishops of the world: “Avoid the scandal of being ‘airport bishops’!”  An almost obsessive compulsion of some prelates to travel beyond … Continue reading →

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In Christ, God became man, and therefore shares all our passions which are not subject to sin and ignorance. We will never again be alone in our physical weaknesses, pain, suffering, and tears. Yet it is also true that in the depth of His human “abandonment” – “God, God, why hast thou forsaken me” – the human nature of Christ made the same act of love which we must all make: the fundamental choice of God, independent of all passion and consolation, and despite any doubts and confusion which may assail us. This is the way of true love. It is the way of Mary at the Foot of the Cross

Posted on September 12, 2019 by abyssum

Sunday, September 08, 2019 THE CATHOLIC MONITOR Thomism is the Remedy for the Mad Francisenstein Amazon Synod Attempt to Create the Monster: “Man’s ‘Deification” “Since Vatican Council II, it has been the overwhelmingly prevalent view, especially among the Catholic hierarchy, … Continue reading →

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LIBERATION THEOLOGY, THE POISONOUS SNAKE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, WAS WOUNDED BY POPES John Paul II AND THE HEAD OF THE CONGREGATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH, CARDINAL RATZINGER, BUT NOT KILLED AND NOW UNDER FRANCIS THE MERCIFUL IT HAS REVIVED AND IS ABOUT TO STRIKE THE BODY OF CHRIST (THE CHURCH) AGAIN, MARY WE PLEAD WITH YOU CRUSH THE HEAD OF THIS SERPENT

Posted on September 11, 2019 by abyssum

MAIKE HICKSON https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/81-year-old-liberation-theologian-is-an-architect-of-the-amazon-synod BLOGSCATHOLIC CHURCH Mon Sep 9, 2019 – 9:04 pm EST 81-year-old liberation theologian is an architect of the Amazon Synod   Amazon Synod, Catholic, Paulo Suess, Pope Francis September 9, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In recent weeks, there has been much discussion among … Continue reading →

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FATHER GEORGE RUTLER, WHO WAS THERE WHEN THE TWIN TOWERS FELL, REFLECTS ON THAT TRAGIC DAY

Posted on September 11, 2019 by abyssum

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 Infandum: 18 Years On FR. GEORGE W. RUTLER Editor’s note: this article originally appeared in the November 2001 print edition of Crisis. In 1789 George Washington prayed in St. Paul’s Church, on what we now call lower Broadway, on the day … Continue reading →

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THE MYSTERY OF POPE BENEDICT’S ACTIONS IN RESIGNING ONLY PART OF THE OFFICE OF POPE BEGINS TO BECOME MORE UNDERSTANDABLE AS THE CHURCH APPROACHES THE CLIMAX OF BERGOLIAN REVOLUTION

Posted on September 11, 2019 by abyssum

From Rome An International Venue for Catholic Thought How Benedict has defeated “Francis” Sep11 by The Editor by Br. Alexis Bugnolo Pope Benedict XVI, who has been lauded by many as a brilliant theologian, is in my opinion, a more brilliant … Continue reading →

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A CURRICULUM VITAE ONLY SATAN COULD LIKE

Posted on September 10, 2019 by abyssum

FOR PETE’S SAKE It’s all good. September 10, 2019   CHURCH MILITANT Normally, we don’t pay a lot of attention to the giant field of Democratic Party candidates for U.S. president. But there is one fellow in particular who is a … Continue reading →

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“The Church’s sole purpose has been care and responsibility for man. . . .the only creature on earth which God willed for its own sake. . . .We are not dealing here with man in the ‘abstract,’ but with the real, ‘concrete,’ ‘historical’ man. We are dealing with each individual, since each one is included in the mystery of Redemption. . . .This man is the primary route that the Church must travel in fulfilling her mission.” It is “the way that leads invariably through the mystery of the Incarnation and the Redemption.”

Posted on September 10, 2019 by abyssum

The Church and Socialism: The Fallacy that Will Not Go Away Hadley Arkes THE CATHOLIC THING TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2019 Another report in the unfolding story of this pontificate:  The redoubtable Daniel Mahoney, who reads and sees everything, brought me … Continue reading →

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National Review’s founder William F. Buckley, Jr. vowed that his magazine would “stand athwart history yelling Stop.” Today, liberal conservatives have resigned themselves to jogging alongside history, wheezing, “For the love of God, please slow down.”

Posted on September 9, 2019 by abyssum

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 We Are All Ahmarists Now, Part I MICHAEL WARREN DAVIS CRISIS MAGAZINE There’s something precarious in writing an article about a debate. One runs the risk of demonstrating why one wasn’t invited to take the stage. Still, Thursday’s exchange between … Continue reading →

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VARIOUS VATICAN OFFICIALS HAVE NOW TACITLY ACCEPTED THAT Pope Benedict XVI IS THE ONLY POPE AND THAT FRANCIS THE MERCIFUL IS IN FACT AN ANTIPOPE

Posted on September 9, 2019 by abyssum

The Vatican has now accepted that Bergoglio is an AntiPope Sep9by The Editor FROM ROME by Br. Alexis Bugnolo Rome: September 9, 2019 A. D.:  The Vatican has conceded that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is an AntiPope. The concession came tacitly as of … Continue reading →

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