Baffled
It is baffling-considering the fact that the justifications for the war currently raging in Iraq have proven to be fraudulent and that 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed-to know that…
Blessed Are the Meek, for They Shall Inherit the Land
Homilies in the Papal Household, 2nd Lenten Sermon, March 16, 2007, in the presence Pope Benedict XVI, Posted 04/07/07 P. Raniero Cantalamessa, OFMCap (Pontifical Household Preacher) The beatitudes are a…
Christian Just War Theory or Christian Just War Fantasy
How much time needs to pass before a theory-that says the sun will rise in the West-ceases to be regarded as a theory or even as an hypothesis, and becomes…
“Corruptio Optimi Pessima”
“Corruptio optimi pessima.” This is what Constantinian Christianity represents, is, has been for its 1600 years, and always will be so long as the Churches cling to it as their…
Dead Right & Dead Wrong: Notre Dame, Obama, D’Arcy | PARTS I-IV
I wish there were a sound-bite way of presenting this material, but there isn’t. A large part of the reason that this is the case is that fixed opinions have…
Eulogy for Edward J. McDonough, C.Ss.R.
The Eulogy was given at the Mass of the Resurrection for Edward J. McDonough, C.Ss.R., at the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Boston, Massachusetts, February 16, 2008. Fr….
Fr. George Zabelka: A Military Chaplain Repents
In August of 1945 Rev. George B. Zabelka, a Catholic chaplain with the U.S. Army Air Force, was stationed on Tinian Island in the South Pacific. He was assigned to…
Franz Jägerstätter: The Man Who Chose to See
Franz Jäggerstäter, an Austrian martyr, is among the new Blessed announced by the Vatican. The life of Blessed Franz Jägerstätter was a simple life. An Austrian peasant from the village…
General George Patton and the Christian Churches
This reflection is a request for those Christians, who see that the Jesus of the Gospel is Nonviolent and teaches by word and deed a Way of Nonviolent Love of…