Monthly Archives: February 2020

FOR THE SCIENTIFICALLY INCLINED READERS OF ABYSSUM HERE IS THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THE CORONAVIRUS INFECTION WHICH HAS SPREAD WORLDWIDE IN A SHORT TIME THANKS TO INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL BY AIRLINES

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MoreNew Online Views 287,560  Citations 02111Viewpoint January 23, 2020 Coronavirus Infections—More Than Just the Common Cold Catharine I. Paules, MD1; Hilary D. Marston, MD, MPH2; Anthony S. Fauci, MD2Author AffiliationsArticle Information JAMA (JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION) Published online January 23, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.0757中文 (chinese)Coronavirus Resource Centerrelated articles icon Related Articlesauthor interview icon Interviewsmultimedia icon Multimedia Human coronaviruses (HCoVs) … Continue reading →

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God comes to us often in obscurity, through unexpected events and persons, rather than through celebrities.

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Fr. Rutler’s Weekly Column January 9, 2020 Luke the Evangelist is the patron saint of artists because he paints pictures with words. In describing the scene of old Simeon in the Temple encountering Jesus, Luke wrote that he “took him … Continue reading →

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The institutional Church, meaning its assorted bishops and their conferences, responds to the Bergolian revolution in the Church with silence, passivity, and those time-serving bureaucratic and self-protective habits that led the Church into the present crisis in the first place. The crisis is just that deep.

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NR PLUSMAGAZINE FEBRUARY 24, 2020, ISSUE Pope Francis, Wayward Shepherd By DANIEL J. MAHONEY February 6, 2020 10:18 AM The pontiff’s erroneous path In the first year or two of Pope Francis’s pontificate, conservative-minded Catholics made heroic efforts to place the perplexing … Continue reading →

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IDEOLOGY UNDER THE GUISE OF LAW

Posted on February 8, 2020 by abyssum

ACTION ITEMS, NEWS ORDO IURIS: HELP US PREVENT EU FROM BECOMING AN IDEOLOGICAL GULAG FEBRUARY 8, 2020 FROM ROME EDITOR The following is a google translation of the Circular letter of Ordo Iuris, a legal defense group from Poland composed of … Continue reading →

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Why are Edward Peters & LifeSiteNews Afraid of a Real Debate with Canon Law Expert Br. Alexis Bugnolo?

Posted on February 7, 2020 by abyssum

Catholic Monitor Friday, February 07, 2020 Why are Edward Peters & LifeSiteNews Afraid of a Real Debate with Canon Law Expert Br. Alexis Bugnolo? Below is an exchange between the famous Catholic blog commenter Fr. VF and a commenter with the tag Amateur Brain Surgeon (who … Continue reading →

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Munus and Ministerium: A Textual Study of their Usage in the Code of Canon Law of 1983 by Br. Alexis Bugnolo

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https://fromrome.wordpress.com/2019/10/31/munus-and-ministerium-a-canonical-study/ Munus and Ministerium: A Textual Study of their Usagein the Code of Canon Law of 1983 by Br. Alexis Bugnolo The study of Canon Law is a recondite field for nearly everyone in the Church except Canon Lawyers. And even … Continue reading →

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BY DEFINITION EVERY VOCATION IS A RESPONSE TO A CALL. A CALL MAY COME FROM A GREAT VARIETY OF SOURCES. THE LURE OF ‘FAME’, ‘POPULARITY’, ‘POWER’, ‘RICHES’, ‘PLEASURE’, ETC. CAN SEEM TO ONE SEEKING TO DISCOVER THE MEANING OF HIS/HER LIFE TO BE A GENUINE ‘CALLING’ OR VOCATION. BUT I SUGGEST THAT ONLY A CALLING THAT IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN ITS ORIGIN IN PRAYER TO GOD FOR GUIDANCE CAN BE TRUSTED AS GENUINE. THE PROCESS OF DISCERNMENT OF ALL VOCATIONS OR LIFE CHOICES SHOULD BE SIMILAR TO THE MONASTIC VOCATION AND ALL OTHER GENUINE LIFE CHOICES.

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Am I called to be a monk? It may seem strange, but in ‘apparently’ not doing very much, in seeking the cloistered life, as Benedictine history reveals monks can do a very great deal indeed for the Church and the … Continue reading →

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“INURED”. inure. Verb (used with object), in·ured, in·ur·ing. to accustom to hardship, difficulty, pain, etc.; toughen or harden; habituate (usually followed by to): inured to cold. verb (used without object), in·ured, in·ur·ing. to come into use; take or have effect. to become beneficial or advantageous. WORDS RELATED TO INURE familiarize, season, acclimate, harden, train, habituate, toughen

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Auschwitz and “intrinsic evil” It is striking that a world largely inured to murder on a vast scale still recognizes in Auschwitz an icon of radical evil: a barbaric grotesquerie no sane person would attempt to justify. February 5, 2020 … Continue reading →

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Mitt Romney IS NO HAMLET, YET HIS COMPLEX PERSONA SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN JINXED FROM CHILDHOOD, IN SPITE OF HIS SUCCESSES HE WAS DOOMED TO END HIS CAREER IN THE IGNOMINY OF HIS VOTE TO REMOVE PRESIDENT TRUMP FROM OFFICE

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Elections  Romney’s Discreditable, Dishonest Vote From February 5, 2020, onward, Mitt Romney is a political outcast—a briefly useful idiot for the defeated Democrats and a traitor to the party he once led in a presidential election.  by Conrad Black –  February 5th, … Continue reading →

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WHAT HAPPENS IN VIRGINIA UNFORTUNATELY WILL NOT STAY IN VIRGINIA BUT WILL INSTEAD SPREAD TO ANY OTHER STATE WHERE THE DEMOCRATS GAIN CONTROL OF BOTH HOUSES OF THE LEGISLATURE AND THE GOVERNORSHIP OF THE STATE

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POLITICS What Today’s Insanely Left Democratic Party Is Doing With Virginia Will Scare You Virginia Democrats mistake their legislative control as a mandate for extreme liberal social re-engineering — and it shows where the rest of the party is headed.By Ashley … Continue reading →

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