Archbishop Dolan on Anti-Catholicism

Of course, the New York Times declined to publish his letter. Anyone surprised?
It is not hyperbole to call prejudice against the Catholic Church a national pastime. Scholars such as Arthur Schlesinger Sr. referred to it as “the deepest bias in the history of the American people,” while John Higham described it as “the most luxuriant, [...]

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“The Pope of Christian Unity” has a nice sound to it

From Father Z:
I want to invite all you readers into a project.
My idea is that we should start to refer to Pope Benedict XVI as …
… the Pope of Christian Unity.
An excellent idea.

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A wonderful pastoral letter

From His Excellency Bishop Nickless of the Diocese of Sioux City, Iowa.
Ecclesia Semper Reformanda
Lastly, the Holy Father, going into greater detail later in the address, explains that the “spirit of Vatican II” must be found only in the letter of the documents themselves. The so-called “spirit” of the Council has no authoritative interpretation. It is [...]

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An interesting point

and one that seems eminently reasonable
Hayek’s basic critique of the idea of social justice is not based on a moral argument — it is based on the limits of human knowledge. Human beings simply do not possess the kinds of information necessary to allow for a just and equitable distribution of resources necessary to ensure [...]

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Mr. de Prada makes a good point

Juan Manuel de Prada is a Spanish writer who converted to the Catholic faith around 2005. From the introduction of his book, de Prada describes his conversion to the “ancient liberty” of the Catholic faith:
The progressive Matrix has thus become a sort of Messianic faith; it has instituted a new order, it has imposed unassailable [...]

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Archbishop Chaput on Obama and Notre Dame

His Excellency responds to an earlier article by Cardinal Georges Cottier. The English title of the article is “Politics, morality and a president: an american view“:
First, resistance to President Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame had nothing to do with whether he is a good or bad man. He is obviously a gifted man. [...]

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Baptism imparts grace, not knowledge

John Zmirak has a good article at InsideCatholic.com on, “Catholics who grandstand about ‘distributive justice’ and offer Rube Goldberg schemes for re-engineering our country’s economy, without knowing or caring how wealth is produced in the first place.”
Baptism Is Not an Economics Degree
What’s missing from these people’s happy, totalitarian picture is something fundamental to the West, [...]

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Réquiem ætérnam dona ei Dómine…

The late Senator Ted Kennedy’s funeral was, unfortunately, a cause of scandal. Phil Lawler does an excellent job of discussing the problems here:
A week after the death of Ted Kennedy, the relevant question is not whether the Massachusetts Senator deserved a Catholic funeral, but whether he deserved a ceremony of public acclamation so grand and [...]

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Good add

The American Life League ran the following add in the Washington Times yesterday:

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I’m all for it

Mass celebrated ad orientem, increased use of Latin, receipt of communion on the tongue as the norm, and less crazy improvisation by priests.
As far as I’m concerned, the changes can’t come soon enough.1
The “Reform of the Reform” is in motion
via Per Christum via A conservative blog for peace and
1 Other than celebrating ad orientem, [...]

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