Pope Leo XIII and Saint Michael the Archangel
(I originally posted this in 2010. I post it on each September 29, the feast of the Archangels.) In 1947 Father Domenico Pechenino related what he had witnessed over six decades before. “I do not...
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No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Savior, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. Christopher Columbus The official observance of Columbus Day...
View ArticlePope Leo XIII and Saint Michael the Archangel
(I originally posted this in 2010. I post it on each September 29, the feast of the Archangels. It seemed like a good idea, in light of the request by Archbishop Vigano, to post it again.) In 1947...
View ArticlePopeWatch: Universal Basic Income
The Pope will not be picking up the tab: Amid the COVID-19 pandemic Pope Francis says it might be time for some sort of universal basic income. “This may be the time to consider a universal basic wage”...
View ArticleOur Oldest Adversary
Even in his old age the should-be-Blessed Sheen still had an acute mind and rare spiritual insight. His talk above on the Devil is chillingly relevant to our time. Man is always quite competent at...
View ArticleLeo XIII on Film
This footage of Pope Leo XIII was recorded in 1896. Leo XIII was born in 1810, making him the furthest person in history to have been captured on film. pic.twitter.com/VC4ADDYZPT — Catholic Arena...
View ArticleChristians Are Born For Combat
Amid such reckless and widespread folly of opinion, it is, as We have said, the office of the Church to undertake the defense of truth and uproot errors from the mind, and this charge has to be at all...
View ArticleThe Welfare State, Saint Paul and Pope Leo XIII
Charles Sykes, of the Wisconsin Policy Institute, has a superb article on the Entitlement Mentality which is sinking the country: The cultural shift has become so pronounced today that even some...
View ArticleObama’s Ideological Brinkmanship
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View ArticleThe Game is Ever Afoot
Time to refresh my creds as Chief Geek of the blog. Season 2 of the series Sherlock is debuting in America on Mystery tonight on most PBS channels at 8:00 PM Central Time. The series is a grand...
View ArticleFortnight For Freedom Day Eight: Catholics and the Father of our Country
Beginning for two weeks, up to Independence Day, the Bishops are having a Fortnight For Freedom: On April 12, the Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops...
View ArticleNOBama 2012: A Catholic Case for Romney
Fellow Catholics, We are approaching the most important U.S. Presidential election for us – by “us” I mean theologically orthodox, politically conservative Catholics – possibly since 1960, when the...
View ArticleThe Conquest of Poverty
The words “Ryan” and “poverty” are almost never more than a few words apart these days. Here at TAC, and elsewhere in the politosphere, Paul Ryan’s views on government spending and poverty are just...
View ArticleCardinal Gibbons and the Knights of Labor
This Labor Day I recall an episode in both the history of labor in the United States and in the history of the Catholic Church in America. The last half of the nineteenth century was a time of...
View ArticlePope Leo XIII on Christ the King
From Annum Sacrum: 3. This world-wide and solemn testimony of allegiance and piety is especially appropriate to Jesus Christ, who is the Head and Supreme Lord of the race. His empire extends not only...
View ArticleQuotes Suitable for Framing: Pope Leo XIII
Christians are born for combat. Pope Leo XIII To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth, is the part of a man either devoid of...
View ArticleCorpus Christi: Mirae Caritatis
Nothing is more fitting for the feast of Corpus Christi than the great encyclical by Pope Leo XIII on the Eucharist, Mirae Caritatis. My bride and I taught our kids to say to themselves at the times...
View ArticleMary and Us
It has always been the habit of Catholics in danger and in troublous times to fly for refuge to Mary. Pope Leo XIII Pope Francis at noon CST today will be consecrating the world today to the...
View ArticleReligious Liberty: Necessity or Virtue?
Hello again TAC! It has been nearly a year since I posted here, and it is good to be back. I have a long one for you this time, but I think you will find it interesting and my hope is that it will...
View ArticleTouching Up The Ol’ Hermeneutic: A Reply To Gabriel Sanchez
Gabriel Sanchez, a Catholic author I know and respect, has written a critique of my – as he calls it – selective “hermeneutic” of libertarian Catholicism at Ethika Politica. Specifically he is...
View ArticleFortnight For Freedom: Catholics in the American Revolution
Nor, perchance did the fact which We now recall take place without some design of divine Providence. Precisely at the epoch when the American colonies, having, with Catholic aid, achieved liberty...
View ArticleQuotes Suitable For Framing: Pope Leo XIII
Those who rule the commonwealths should avail themselves of the laws and institutions of the country; masters and wealthy owners must be mindful of their duty; the working class, whose interests are...
View ArticleQuotes Suitable for Framing: Leo XIII
The unshrinking defence of the Holy Scripture, however, does not require that we should equally uphold all the opinions which each of the Fathers or the more recent interpreters have put forth in...
View ArticleQuotes Suitable for Framing: Leo XIII
There is no doubt that in the sphere of politics ample matter may exist for legitimate difference of opinion, and that, the single reserve being made of the rights of justice and truth, all may...
View ArticleBreve Neminem Fugit
When God in his mercy determined to accomplish the work of man’s renewal, which same had so many long ages awaited, he appointed and ordained this work on such wise that its very beginning might shew...
View ArticlePotty War: Let’s Pretend
David Solway at PJ Media gets to the heart of not only Potty War but what ails the West in general: a pernicious, wholly political, game of let’s pretend: It is as if the Soviet pseudo-scientist...
View ArticlePope Leo and Saint Michael the Archangel
(I originally posted this in 2010. I think I will begin posting it on each September 29, the feast of the Archangels.) In 1947 Father Domenico Pechenino related what he had witnessed over six...
View ArticleQuotes Suitable for Framing: Pope Leo XIII
18. In like manner, the other pains and hardships of life will have no end or cessation on earth; for the consequences of sin are bitter and hard to bear, and they must accompany man so long as life...
View ArticleThe Pope and the Archangel
In 1947 Father Domenico Pechenino related what he had witnessed over six decades before. “I do not remember the exact year. One morning the great Pope Leo XIII had celebrated a Mass and, as...
View ArticlePope Leo XIII and Christopher Columbus
No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. Christopher Columbus Another Columbus Day is upon us, and...
View ArticleThe Saint Michael Prayer
Well this is a good idea: A Connecticut bishop has directed all his priests to recite the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel after every Mass in response to the sex abuse crisis now roiling the...
View ArticleFeast of the Archangels
May prayer strengthen us for the spiritual battle we are told about in the Letter to the Ephesians, “Draw strength from the Lord and from his mighty power” (Eph 6 10). The Book of Revelation refers...
View ArticleNotre Dame Declares War on Columbus
I expect nothing from Notre Dame, yet I am constantly disappointed in that expectation: The University of Notre Dame is set to cover a series of historic Christopher Columbus murals prominently...
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