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Is it because praying the sacred Liturgy is an intrinsic good?
Christ is risen!
There are such things as intrinsic evils. Directly killing the innocent — like the pre-born, the elderly, the infirm; or suicide; also, blasphemy, sodomy, and the like.
Are there intrinsic goods? Is the sacred Liturgy one of them? (more…)
Does His Eminence misinform His Holiness?
The Vatican Press Office tells yesterday that Pope Francis has sent a letter to Cardinal Cupich of Chicago, and that he is praying for nonviolence.
http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-sends-letter-to-cardinal-cupich-prays
Very evidently His Holiness is misinformed about the violence for which Chicago has become infamous in recent years. (more…)
“On the Formal Correction of Pope Francis”
The article (linked below) by John R. T. Lamont, DPhill, deftly treats of the process by which a pope may be corrected, and of true & false notions of obedience to ecclesial authority.
http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/02/article-on-formal-correction-of-pope.html
May the Holy Ghost ever-guide Mother Church — not least her higher (and lower) clerics — in these turbulent times!
“Our dedication to Tradition must be total, we cannot settle for anything less.”
The above-named essay, bearing the subtitle, “Mysticism and Human Calculations”, appeared in the June 2015 newsletter of the Catholic community of Vocogno, in the Diocese of Novara, Italy.
We republish the same essay here, below, in English, thanks to (more…)
America the beautiful, besmirched by violence & lies
Now that the U.S. government’s Supreme Court has issued a decree coercing (more…)
“Freedom for everything and for all except for evil and evil-doers.”
The above political motto of the great martyr and regenerator of Ecuador, President Gabriel Garcia Moreno, rings today truer & needier than ever.
It is a motto also that encapsulates Moreno’s personal rule, that men who aspire to be saints can make their own, editing it in order to rule their own state in life and spiritual temperament.
(Click here to edit this document for oneself.)
It is practically unthinkable that Pope Francis (more…)
“Je suis Charlie … Martel!”
Hammer away!
Christ Crucified: Scandal to the Muslims, Foolishness to the Secularists
by Roberto de Mattei – Rorate Caeli (January 14, 2015)
NCCL takes the liberty (more…)
Reform of the Reformer 