Category: History

What Is Social Justice?
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What Is Social Justice?

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by on Apr 22, 2013 in Agrarianism & Distributism, Catechesis, Featured, History, The Social Order
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When last we met, we looked at Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical which inaugurated modern Catholic social thought. We now continue our magical mystery tour by turning our attention to Pope Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno of 1931. Before we explore the major themes of this incredibly important document, however, it would serve us well [...]

St. Vincent Ferrer – “Apostle of the Apocalypse”
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St. Vincent Ferrer – “Apostle of the Apocalypse”

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by on Apr 05, 2013 in Featured, History
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Today, we Dominicans commemorate the feast day of St. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419). He was an outstanding preacher whose passion and zeal for the salvation of souls knew no bounds. There is much we can learn from him today. His early years – Prior to his birth in Valencia, Spain on January 23, 1350, Vincent’s parents, [...]

A New Pope and A New World: Passing the Torch Below the Equator
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A New Pope and A New World: Passing the Torch Below the Equator

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by on Apr 01, 2013 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, History, International Issues, Those in Need
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A review of the Popes in the twentieth century find them fighting a fierce battle against the forces of secularism, atheism, and malevolance that have consumed Western Civilization. Collectively these forces, referred to as “Modernity,” are merely contemporary expressions of the evils that have collapsed empires and civilizations for thousands of years. The election of [...]

Finally a Francis
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Finally a Francis

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by on Mar 15, 2013 in Featured, History
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Congratulations to the former Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina, who is now Pope Francis. He deserves our best wishes, but even more than that, our prayers. He will have a difficult task in a world that clamors for change, while God’s truth and the gospel never change. I am very happy at the name Cardinal Bergoglio [...]

St. Rita of Cascia
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St. Rita of Cascia

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by on Mar 13, 2013 in Featured, History, Uncategorized
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It is common for a child growing up in a Catholic home to know about Saints.[i] Many Catholic children are asked “to name that Saint”, or the most important question of all “what is your Confirmation name.” These questions take thinking and researching. There are times where researching a Saint can be almost impossible. According [...]

The Conclave-Watcher’s Lexicon: What Do They Mean When They Say That?
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The Conclave-Watcher’s Lexicon: What Do They Mean When They Say That?

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by on Mar 11, 2013 in Featured, History
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The media and pundits, as well as churchmen, use a lot of jargon that many ordinary readers, unaccustomed to romanità, the carefully encoded diplomatic language used by the Vatican and its cadre of experts, will not be familiar with. A lot of the writing leading up to the conclave is about the “priorities” of the new pope. [...]

The Inquisition of the Knights Templar
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The Inquisition of the Knights Templar

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by on Mar 11, 2013 in Featured, History, Learn & Live the Faith, Uncategorized
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Warriors, monks, Christians: the Knights Templar were all these things, but according to the pope they were also heretics. These knights for Christ had once been some of the most respected people in Europe and known as models of Christian virtue. But as the world began changing they incurred the wrath of kings and priests [...]

A Call to Conversion: John the Baptist, Jesus, and Mary
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A Call to Conversion: John the Baptist, Jesus, and Mary

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by on Mar 02, 2013 in Featured, History, Live in Christ, MyChurchParish.com
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St. Asterius of Amasea wrote: “Reflect for a moment on the wealth of [God’s] kindness. Before he came as a man to be among men, he sent John the Baptist to preach repentance and lead men to practice it. John himself was preceded by the prophets, who were to teach the people to repent, to [...]

The Real Vatican II: A 10-part Television Series
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The Real Vatican II: A 10-part Television Series

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by on Mar 02, 2013 in Apologetics, Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, History, On Media
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Recently, Pope Benedict XVI, now Pope Emeritus, criticized the media for it’s continued misrepresenting of Vatican II. In response, NET (New Evangelization Television) debuted a 10-part weekly series called Vatican II: Inside the Vatican Council, on Thursday, February 21 at 8:30 PM ET. CNA/EWTN reported that “Pope Benedict XVI said that many of the misinterpretations of the Second [...]

Concerning the Malachy List
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Concerning the Malachy List

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by on Feb 25, 2013 in Featured, History
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Since the announcement of Pope Benedict XVI to renounce the Papacy at the end of this month, the Internet has been buzzing with the legend of the “List of St. Malachy.”  This list is said to contain the names of all the Popes beginning with Pope Celestine II to the end of time.  The total [...]

Papal Resignation Rates an A+
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Papal Resignation Rates an A+

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by on Feb 22, 2013 in Columnists, Featured, History, Leadership
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For the last several weeks I’ve been teaching an online course about the role of the Catholic laity. We’d just gotten to the subject of personal vocation when the startling news came through: Benedict XVI was stepping down as pope. Posting a question that Monday morning to get my students’ discussion rolling for the week, [...]

Without a Script: The Professor Pope from the Heart on Vat.II and the Church
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Without a Script: The Professor Pope from the Heart on Vat.II and the Church

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by on Feb 14, 2013 in Featured, History, Live in Christ
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“Only a permanent formation of the heart and mind can actually create intelligibility and participation which is more than one external activity, which is an entering of the person, of his or her being into communion with the Church and thus in fellowship with Christ.”—Pope Benedict XVI this morning, in his annual address to the [...]

Benedict’s Unfolding Spiritual Testament
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Benedict’s Unfolding Spiritual Testament

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by on Feb 13, 2013 in Featured, History, Vocations
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“While the Lord continues to raise up examples of radical conversion, like Pavel Florensky, Etty Hillesum and Dorothy Day, he also constantly challenges those who have been raised in the faith to deeper conversion.”—Pope Benedict XVI, at his next-to-last General Audience, this morning in the Paul VI Audience Hall in Vatican City Benedict Reaches Out [...]

POW Admiral Jeremiah Denton Released From Captivity Forty Years Ago Today
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POW Admiral Jeremiah Denton Released From Captivity Forty Years Ago Today

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by on Feb 12, 2013 in Featured, History, Leadership
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Forty years ago today,  Navy Admiral Jeremiah Denton was freed from captivity as a POW by the North Vietnamese in Hanoi.  In May 2007, Admiral Denton agreed to serve as Chairman of the Thomas More Law Center’s Citizens Advisory Board. Admiral Jeremiah Denton served as United States Naval Aviator during the Vietnam War and was the [...]

A Hermeneutic Without History
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A Hermeneutic Without History

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by on Feb 11, 2013 in Catechesis, Columnists, Featured, History
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Last summer, I had a conversation on the topic of religious liberty with a dear priest friend who is a very accomplished moral theologian and seminary professor. He’s one of very few people I know whose rock-solid orthodoxy, knowledge and insight make him a reliable guide in all matters Catholic. That being the case, I [...]

The Teutonic Knights
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The Teutonic Knights

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by on Feb 08, 2013 in Featured, History
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Throughout history, there have been a number of religious military orders.  These orders dwelt in the shadow of the Church, shaping it through their deeds and accomplishments.  One such order was the Teutonic Knights. There were three major religious military orders formed during the Crusades.  The most known were the Templar Knights founded around 1119, [...]

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Les Miserables and the Index

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by on Feb 06, 2013 in Featured, History, On Books, On Media, On Movies
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For the past several weeks, Catholics around the Internet have been talking about a scandal, and, surprisingly, they’re more or less in agreement.  It is a real-life scandal of a bishop who forgave a criminal for robbing from him.  It is a fictional scandal of a criminal who broke parole, became a successful businessman and [...]

U.S.S. Constitution
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Union vs. Constitution: Farewell to Apostate America, Part 4

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by on Feb 06, 2013 in Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice
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In 1961, three months before Barack Obama’s birth, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech to members of the media.  There is, said he, “little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it.”[1]   Does JFK’s assertion bear scrutiny today?  In my judgment it is both pertinent and [...]

Sides of the Same Coin: St. Angela Merici and [Sister] Adele Brise
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Sides of the Same Coin: St. Angela Merici and [Sister] Adele Brise

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by on Jan 27, 2013 in Featured, History, MyChurchParish.com
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This year January 27th falls on the Third Sunday of Ordinary Time. Ordinarily the Catholic Church would celebrate the memorial of St. Angela Merici, an Italian saint on this date. When I first heard the story of St. Angela Merici in the college seminary, I was struck by the similarities St. Angela shared with [Sister] [...]

Family, State, and Union: Pope Leo Was Right
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Family, State, and Union: Pope Leo Was Right

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by on Jan 09, 2013 in Catechesis, Featured, History
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Imagine you are the pope. The previous half-century has seen the rise of many radical political movements and systems of thought hostile to the Church. Major societal upheaval is well underway, disrupting the basic order of civilization that had persisted for centuries. The territory that had for a millennium been politically controlled by your predecessors has [...]

John B Tabb - America's Forgotten Priest-Poet
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John B. Tabb: America’s Forgotten Priest-Poet

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by on Jan 01, 2013 in Featured, History, On Books
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A Very Brief Biography Rev. John Banister Tabb (March 22, 1845 – November 19, 1909) was a Catholic priest and professor of English. Born into one of Virginia’s oldest and wealthiest families, at “The Forest” in Amelia County, Tabb fell in love in his teens, though his marriage proposal to the neighbor girl was declined. He [...]

Tough Religion and Evangelization
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Tough Religion and Evangelization

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by on Dec 14, 2012 in Catechesis, Columnists, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, History, Live in Christ
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Much has been said lately about how to do evangelization. I’ve contributed a bit to that myself. Now I begin to think that, instead of always stressing niceness, it might be good to give tough religion a try. That idea was inspired by a reading of Eric Metaxas’s biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran theologian [...]

How the West was Really Won
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How the West was Really Won

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by on Dec 12, 2012 in Columnists, Featured, History, MyChurchParish.com, On Movies
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On December 9, 1531, a poor and humble man from a remote village, some fourteen miles outside of present-day Mexico City, had a miraculous encounter with a mysterious lady and the Americas would never be the same. That peasant was Juan Diego, and the mysterious lady that he encountered was none other than she whom [...]

Our Lady of Guadalupe, We Need You More Than Ever!
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Our Lady of Guadalupe, We Need You More Than Ever!

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by on Dec 12, 2012 in Contraception & Abortion, Featured, History, MyChurchParish.com
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Hundreds of millions of people around the world today will celebrate Masses to honor an appearance of the Blessed Mother made 481 year ago.   December 12, 1531 Our Lady of Guadalupe put an end to the Mayan culture of death.  Mary was the woman, clothed in the sun, with the moon at her feet, who [...]

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