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This splendid piece ought to be read by those who labor under the illusion the Pope is the Church and the Church is the Pope, and that anyone who believes otherwise is, as this writer was recently informed in a scathing message on social media, not a true Catholic.  Not at all, according to EricContinue reading “The Pope as Emperor.”

From the Catholic News Agency. Pope Francis on Friday had an audience with Cardinal Raymond Burke, the Vatican said, several weeks after a flurry of reported controversy involving the pontiff and the 75-year-old U.S.-born prelate . . . The meeting comes weeks after reports that Pope Francis had stripped Burke of his Vatican housing andContinue reading “Well I’ll be . . .”

From the New York Sun. The head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has drawn the ire of the world’s most prominent rabbis, signaling a level of tension with the Jewish community that has not been seen since the days of Pope Pius XII and the aftermath of the Holocaust. At issue is a reportedContinue reading “It Just Never Ends.”

Persuasive evidence of the Star of Bethlehem. Eric Hedin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Taylor University and Ball State University in Indiana, as well Biola University in Southern California, is also a science writer. In a recent book review for Evolution News, he writes, A few years ago, while I was living inContinue reading “Following Yonder Star.”

Is schism already happening in the Holy Catholic Church? Catholic blogger Shane Shaetzel thinks so and has drawn up a map (above), showing where the fractures are occurring. Bishops in those areas in red are strongly resisting Pope Francis’s constant stream of innovations since being elected; not only Fiducia supplicans, but a slew of others rammedContinue reading “Has it Begun?”

In Rorate Coeli read in detail, if you can stomach it, how Pope Francis has, one by one, eviscerated the heroic efforts of John Paul II to save the Holy Catholic Church from innovation, moral relativism, socialism and a host of other evils, and is back on the road to destruction. Rather than reiterating theContinue reading “Methodically Destroying a Legacy . . . and the Church.”

From Campus Reform. Following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of Israelis, Franciscan University of Steubenville has opened its campus to welcome new Jewish students who have been subjected to bigotry around the U.S. ‘But with too many universities preaching tolerance but practicing prejudice, we feel compelled to do more,’ Franciscan president Father Dave Pivonka said inContinue reading “Showing the Colleges How.”

– – – UPDATE: Or, to put the above less succinctly, h/t Instapundit.

Or, more accurately, what was wrong with this picture until recently? The answer is found in the top left-hand corner of the image, the peacock logo and all-cap letters, “NBC.” Until lately we would never have seen them and a negative headline concerning Joe Biden juxtaposed. To NBC and other news media it would have beenContinue reading “What is Wrong with this Picture?”

This lovely album dates from 1964, at perhaps the peak of the Episcopal Church in this country. It is not likely any of the troops involved in the recording could foresee the drastic decline the institution would undergo only a few decades later, with the Cathedral’s future Bishop, the Rt Rev’d Paul Moore, Jr, tenureContinue reading “Sunken Cathedral.”