Archive for April, 2011
The Beatification of JPII
“On Saturday, 2 April 2005, upon entering the Lord’s Day, the Octave of Easter and Divine Mercy Sunday, the Lord called to Himself, from the Vatican Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father John Paul II. The Servant of God, a Man who lived an intense life of prayer, a tireless Pastor [...]
A Scandalous Relationship
The Newman Society keeps all this in mind, as it points out the good, the bad and the ugly of Catholic higher education in America. Their recent report entitled, A Scandalous Relationship: Catholic Colleges and Planned Parenthood, exposes relationships between numerous Catholic colleges and America’s largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, a group responsible for the death of over 330,000 unborn babies in 2009 alone. Sadly, St. Joseph’s College in Standish made an appearance in this most recent report [...]
Killing Ourselves with Softness
How many people under the age of 60 have heard of the virtue of temperance? How many have been brought up to exercise it? Of the billion or so people of any age who attend church or synagogue or mosque regularly how many even hear a homily on the subject? On the other hand, how many in the younger generations have been reared and educated in the school of instant gratification, where a bit of nagging gets you [...]
Indulgences and Divine Mercy
While acknowledging that the practice of indulgences has at times been improperly used, the Church “teaches and establishes that the use of indulgences must be preserved because it is supremely salutary for the Christian people and authoritatively approved by the sacred councils; and it condemns with anathema those who maintain the uselessness of indulgences or [...]
Cardinal George Suspends Controversial Priest
Francis Cardinal George has suspended Fr. Michael Pfleger from his ministry as pastor of St. Sabina parish in Chicago. The priest’s public suspension comes as a result of comments made in which he indicated he would “have to look outside the Church” if he is reassigned from the parish he has led [...]
Welfare Reform Bills Go Before Legislative Committee
“Those standards from our perspective and that of the Judeo Christian tradition are fundamentally contained within these two questions: Does what is being proposed serve to meet the basic needs of the poor and disadvantaged and offer them the best chance at advancement or does it simply preserve financial resources? Does what is being proposed meet an immediate need of the state at the cost of abandoning our long standing tradition of care and compassion?”
Yes on 1 Chairman Responds
Bill Nemitz of the Portland Press Herald is not a reporter. He’s a pundit. He comes to a story with a certain point of view, selectively chooses bits of information which support his point of view and leaves out bits of information that do not.
His recent column in which he asserts that the Yes on [...]
Pushing Hormonal Steroids on Maine’s Children
Most of the time when you read about steroid use, it’s within the context of some sort of illegal activity. Certainly, no responsible adult would ever promote steroid use amongst young children or teens, especially behind a parent’s [...]
Urbi et Orbi
Easter morning brings us news that is ancient yet ever new: Christ is risen! The echo of this event, which issued forth from Jerusalem twenty centuries ago, continues to resound in the Church, deep in whose heart lives the vibrant faith of Mary, Mother of Jesus, the faith of Mary Magdalene and the other women who first discovered the empty tomb [...]
The Paschal Triduum: Easter Sunday
Easter Sunday, the greatest solemnity in the liturgical year, is often associated with many displays of popular piety: these are all cultic expressions which proclaim the new and glorious condition of the risen Christ, and the divine power released from his triumph over sin and death.
The Risen Christ meets his Mother
Popular piety intuits a constancy [...]
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