Another wonderful entry from Secret Harbor, this one on Blessed Columba Marmion and devotion to Our Lady:
By God’s design, Mary and Jesus are inseparable. “Mary in fact belongs to the very essence of the mystery of Christ.” She is the Mother of Him Who is our all in all. Life and Divine grace come to [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Blessed Columba Marmion on Devotion to our Blessed Mother
Posted in Catholicism, Mother of God on 05.30.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Baby Blues: The Day Phonics Kicked In
Posted in Kids, Life on 05.30.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Baby Blues is Carla’s favorite comic strip.
Archbishop Nienstedt
Posted in Catholicism on 05.29.2009 | Leave a Comment »
His Excellency, Archbishop Nienstedt of the diocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, recently responded to a letter from the Rainbow Sash Alliance indicating their intent to receive Holy Communion this coming Sunday (Pentecost) whilst wearing rainbow sashes to indicate that they are LGBT Catholics.
The gist of Archbishop Nienstedt’s response is
With regard to the dialogue you request, it [...]
Supreme Court Judges and “Empathy”
Posted in Government, Reality on 05.29.2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was going to write a post explaining why I think picking justices based on “empathy” is a horrible idea, but Prof. Hasnas has done a better job than I ever could:
One can have compassion for workers who lose their jobs when a plant closes. They can be seen. One cannot have compassion for unknown [...]
Thoughts from James Cardinal Gibbons
Posted in Catholicism on 05.28.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Secret Harbor quotes James Cardinal Gibbons:
Can earthly pleasures make one so happy as to leave nothing to be desired? Assuredly not. They that indulge in sensual gratifications are forced to acknowledge that the deeper they plunge into them, the more they are enslaved and the less they are satiated by them. The keen edge of [...]
Bishop Finn on President Obama: “I am glad that Mr. Obama was so clear.”
Posted in Catholicism, Government on 05.26.2009 | Leave a Comment »
More somewhat dated commentary on Notre Dame’s honoring of President Obama. This is from Most Reverend Robert J. Finn, bishop of of Kansas City – St. Joseph. This is a quote from an interview with The Catholic Key Blog, which is the blog of the staff of the diocesan newspaper.
I think the message of the [...]
Secret Harbor on The Antichristian Revolt
Posted in Catholicism on 05.26.2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Sacrament of the Altar is the manifestation of the Divine Presence; it is the incorporation of the Divine love, sanctity, and power; and against these things the Antichristian revolt hurls itself as the chief object of its hatred.
There is yet another object of this animosity. What I said last leads on immediately to the [...]
Fr. Jenkins and Gaudium et Spes
Posted in Catholicism, Government on 05.26.2009 | Leave a Comment »
When Fr. Jenkins introduced President Obama at Notre Dame’s commencement ceremony, he quoted from the Second Vatican Council document Gaudium et Spes.
One of Fr. Z’s readers points out that Fr. Jenkins conveniently left out the portion of the document immediately preceding the section he quoted.
And there they go….
Posted in Government, Taxes on 05.26.2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an interesting opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about millionaires “disappearing” from the state of Maryland. The gist of it is when Maryland decided to have millionaires their “fair share” of the state’s budget and implemented a progressive tax, the millionaires responded by leaving the state. In one year the number of [...]
Orestes Brownson and his quarterly review
Posted in Catholicism, Government on 05.22.2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just read “Introduction to the Last Series”, which originally appeared in the January, 1878 edition of Brownson’s Quarterly Review. The quote I mentioned earlier came from this article. Brownson had ceased the publication of his quarterly review in 1864, until a several factors caused him to re-start it in 1878. The introduction explains some [...]
