THE Prime Minister of Canada has made the unprecedented decision to invoke the Emergencies Act on the peaceful convoy protest against vaccine mandates. Justin Trudeau says he is “following the science” to justify his mandates. But his colleagues, provincial premiers, and the science itself have something else to say…Continue reading
THE segregation and discrimination against the “unvaccinated” continues as governments and institutions punish those who have refused to become part of a medical experiment. Some bishops have even begun barring priests and banning the faithful from the Sacraments. But as it turns out, the real super-spreaders aren’t the unvaccinated after all…
THERE was a German Christian man who lived near the railroad tracks at the time of World War II. When the train whistle blew, they knew what would shortly follow: the cries of Jews packed into cattle cars.Continue reading
…the true friends are not those who flatter the Pope,
but those who help him with the truth
and with theological and human competence.
—Cardinal Müller, Corriere della Sera, Nov. 26, 2017;
from the Moynihan Letters, #64, Nov. 27th, 2017
Dear children, the Great Vessel and a Great Shipwreck;
this is the [cause of] suffering for men and women of faith.
—Our Lady to Pedro Regis, October 20th, 2020;
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WITHIN the culture of Catholicism has been an unspoken “rule” that one must never criticize the Pope. Generally speaking, it is wise to refrain from criticizing our spiritual fathers. However, those who turn this into an absolute expose a grossly exaggerated understanding of papal infallibility and come dangerously close to a form of idolatry — papalotry — that elevates a pope to an emperor-like status where everything he utters is infallibly divine. But even a novice historian of Catholicism will know that popes are very human and prone to mistakes — a reality that began with Peter himself:Continue reading