Author Archives: abyssum

HOMILY FOR THE EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Cycle A Bishop Rene Henry Gracida No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot … Continue reading →

‘Love’ Wins again! (Ollyy/Shutterstock) Rod Dreher Polygamy: The Next Frontier By ROD DREHER • February 18, 2017, 9:54 PM THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE . . Here’s the jacket copy for a forthcoming book from the University Press of New England: Legalizing Plural Marriage: The … Continue reading →

Settimo Cielodi Sandro Magister  25 feb 17 A Lone Man In Charge, To the Crowd’s Acclaim   [Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum] Popularity and solitude are the two faces of the current pontificate, contradictory only in appearance. {bipolar: … Continue reading →

Pope Francis helps SSPX take over church, complex, in heart of Rome Posted on 24 February 2017 by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf Il Foglio today as a story about how Pope Francis was a decisive factor in handing over a neo-Gothic church in the center of … Continue reading →

What’s Going On in the Vatican? A Timeline February 24, 2017 What’s Going On in the Vatican? A Timeline By Andrew Parrish Pewsitter.com The Vatican appears to be coming to a boil these days: the pace of strange and alarming … Continue reading →

CIRCA 1960 Religion: Thick and Thin David Carlin THE CATHOLIC THING FEBRUARY 24, 2017   I am an old man – old enough to have vivid memories of what American Catholicism was like prior to the end of Vatican II … Continue reading →

JPC-PROD / Shutterstock Why the Kennedy-De Niro Vaccine Challenge Matters A presidential commission led by Robert Kennedy Jr. could raise uncomfortable questions about the incentives driving vaccination recommendations. By PRATIK CHOUGULE • February 15, 2017 THE AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE Robert Kennedy Jr. and … Continue reading →

The Sinkhole of Video Games View  THE SINKHOLE OF VIDEO GAMES: Video games are better than real life. http://vlt.tc/2qh3  “I had bonded with Leon, a graphic designer, musician, and Twitter magnate, over our shared viewership of online broadcasts of the Street … Continue reading →

http://www.virtueonline.org/straight-male-and-texas-bathroom A straight male and the Texas bathroom Common sense was thrown out the window By Mary Ann Mueller VOL Special Correspondent http://www.virtueonline.org February 23, 2017 I live in Texas, and I just returned from a trip a local store. … Continue reading →

Settimo Cielodi Sandro Magister  23 feb 17 Revisitations. Twelve Years Ago Bergoglio Did Not Have the Doubts of Today   [Emphasis and {commentary} in red type by Abyssum]   Of the five “dubia” submitted to Pope Francis and made public … Continue reading →