Tuesday, April 28, 2015

The Public Apostasy of Michael Coren

Mr. Coren with his new minister

I had hoped that this would be rectified before I wrote on the matter, yet sadly Mr. Coren has chosen by his own free will to leave the Catholic faith for the Church of England. 
H/T Tim Haines Twitter feed (Vericast)

You might know Mr. Coren from his literary works like "Why Catholics are Right" and "Heresy".  His reasoning for departure from the sole fold of Christ has to do with secular ideals.

Vox had written about this before HERE

I beg of you to please pray for him and for his wife.  Storm heaven, Please!


Thursday, April 23, 2015

What Pius XII learned from that Armenian Genocide (a look into the Holocaust)

A study on Papal reactions

Paper delivered at the International Conference
"Pius XII and the Second World War: Assumption and New Archival Evidence" at the Universitá degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Rom, 2. Oktober 2014

One key to understand Pius XII reaction on the holocaust – his hesitation to name both, murderers and victims, and his dedication to save as many lives as possible – is the Vatican’s diplomacy during World War I, is Benedict XV (1914-22) unsuccessful attempt to save the Armenians during the genocide of 1915-18 by an open protest.
I came to this conclusion after studying about 2000 pages, entitled “persecuzioni contra gli Armeni”, in both, the Archives of the Apostolic Delegation in Constantinople and the Secretary of State in the Vatican Secret Archives for an upcoming book[1], many of them for the first time.[2]

There is no doubt that Eugenio Pacelli was extremely well informed about this darkest chapter of World War I.Since 1914 he was Secretary of the Department of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs of the Holy See’s Secretariat of State and became Undersecretary of State when Benedict XV. named Cardinal Gasparri as Secretary of State. In this position he had prime access to all information on the Armenian genocide and indeed we find his characteristic handwriting on several documents dealing with it. Being responsible for several Papal relief initiatives during the War, he was rather well-informed about it. In several cases, the Apostolic Delegate in Constantinople, Msgr. Angelo  Dolci, addressed Pacelli directly in his letters and reports to the Holy See.Later, when Pope Benedict XV. appointed Pacelli as Nuncio to Bavaria, Pacelli was involved in a diplomatic intervention to prevent further massacres after the Russian retreat from Northeastern Turkey following the Brest-Litovsk treaty. Indeed, all biographers of Pius XII agree that the wartime diplomacy of Pope Benedict XV served as a model for Pius XII actions during WW2, when the “Pope of Peace”served as his role model, especially in his stress on the Vatican’s “impartiality”.
But what did Pius XII learn from his experience with the Armenian genocide?

Read the whole article HERE

Friday, April 17, 2015

2 Thumbs up for Marvel's Daredevil

Daredevil, the Catholic super hero
I was a little concerned about this new series just because I was not sure of the production quality and the story lines that would be seen within, but my goodness I LOVE this series!

The character stays true to the comics and this Catholic faith is a central point of the series.

It is a little darker than other Marvel films so I would not recommend it for those under 12, but it is a fantastic series!  I would say that the series is closer to "The Dark Knight" films then any Marvel films I can think of.

Another interesting thing is the way they developed the characters within during season one.  Both Matt Murdock and King Pin are intense figures with great depth. I would even say that King Pin is the best Marvel studios villain to date.

It is worth the watch, after prayer of course.

Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Monday, April 13, 2015

MUST READ! The devils agenda: Transhumanism and the #Homoheresy come together to change the world

The following article was published in Psychology Today:

"Nearly all transhumanists support the LGBT cause. After all, a desire to be free to alter, express, and control one's sexual preference and identity sounds distinctly like a transhumanist concept. Advocates of transhumanism aim to alter, express, and control their bodies and preferences too, except they emphasize doing it with science and technology."

The transhumanist h+ symbolRead the rest of the article HERE
The article is a terrifying and prideful witness of what we can expect to come.  It is similar to "After the Ball" in that it openly seeks to spread its evil and depraved thinking into the mainstream.

Some other articles on Transhumanism which the church as also condemned from its inception:





h/t Matthew Olson


The next phase of evil: transhumanism."Nearly all transhumanists support the LGBT cause. After all, a desire to be...
Posted by Matthew Olson on Monday, April 13, 2015

Friday, April 10, 2015

Pray for the persecuted

Source



Those in the Middle East
Those in  Africa
Those in Asia


Those everywhere!

Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and may the perpetual light shine down upon them

+JMJ+

Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Someone wrote me a poem

I appreciate the effort, but it was just more rhetoric without reasoning.  Weak kneed protestantism:


But they are Christians... and so are people that believe Jesus was a Unicorn, but taught the whole of the Catholic Church right?


Tuesday, April 7, 2015

St. Stans Holy Week Photos (2015)

See below the photos from this years Holy Week celebrations (Holy Thursday and the Easter Vigil)
















































Holy Thursday Photos at St. Stanislaus#HolyThursday #MaudyThursday
Posted by St. Stanislaus Catholic Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) on Monday, April 6, 2015



Easter Vigil at St. Stanislaus Pictures!#HolySaturday#EasterVigil#TwinSpires#SouthSideBells
Posted by St. Stanislaus Catholic Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) on Monday, April 6, 2015

Photos care of P. Wesley  

Monday, April 6, 2015

GKC: The Prudery of the Feminists

The following article originally appeared in the New Witness, January 25th, 191. The American Chesterton Society put it in the most recent edition of their Gilbert Magazine. Did I mention you should get a subscription?  DO SO, THUS COMMANDETH ... well you should! HERE!!!


The Prudery of the Feminists

One assumes GK after dealing with the after effects of arguments with feminists
In the ultimate and universal sense I am astonished at the lack of astonishment. Starting from scratch, so to speak, we are all in the position of the first frog, whose pious and compact prayer was "Lord, how you made me jump!" Matthew Arnold told us to see life steadily and see it whole. But the flaw in his whole philosophy is that when we do see life whole we do not see it steadily, in Arnold's sense, but as a staggering prodigy of creation. There is a primeval light in which all stones are precious stones; a primeval darkness against which all flowers are as vivid as fireworks. Nevertheless, there is one kind of surprise that does surprise me, the more, perhaps, because it is not true surprise but a supercilious fuss. There is a kind of man who not only claims that his stone is the only pebble on the beach, but declares it must be the one and only philosopher's stone, because he is the one and only philosopher. He does not discover suddenly the sensational fact that grass is green. He discovers it very slowly, and proves it still more slowly, bringing us one blade of grass at a time. He is made haughty instead of humble by hitting on the obvious. The flowers do not make him open his eyes, but, rather, cover them with spectacles; and this is even more true of the weeds and thorns. Even his bad news is banal. A young man told me he had abandoned his Bible religion and vicarage environment at the withering touch of the one line of Fitzgerald: "The flower that once has blown, for ever dies." I vainly pointed out that the Bible or the English burial service could have told him that man cometh up as a flower and is cut down. If that were self-evidently final, there would never have been any Bibles or any vicarages. I do not see how the flower can be any more dead, when a mower can cut it down, merely because a botanist can cut it up. It should further be remembered that the belief in the soul, right or wrong, arose and flourished among men who knew all there is to know about cutting down, not unfrequently cutting each other down, with considerable vivacity. The physical fact of death, in a hundred horrid shapes, was more naked and less veiled in times of faith or superstition than in times of science or skepticism. Often it was not merely those who had seen a man die, but those who had seen him rot, who were most certain that he was everlastingly alive.

There is another case somewhat analogous to this discovery of the new disease of death. I am puzzled in somewhat the same way when I hear, as we often hear just now, somebody saying that he was formerly opposed to Female Suffrage but was converted to it by the courage and patriotism shown by women in nursing and similar war work. Really, I do not wish to be superior in my turn, when I can only express my wonder in a question. But from what benighted dens can these people have crawled, that they did not know that women are brave? What horrible sort of women have they known all their lives? Where do they come from? Or, what is a still more apposite question, where do they think they come from? Do they think they fell from the moon, or were really found under cabbage-leaves, or brought over the sea by storks? Do they (as seems more likely) believe they were produced chemically, by Mr. Schefer on principles of abiogenesis? Should we any of us be here at all if women were not brave? Are we not all trophies of that war and triumph? Does not every man stand on the earth like a graven statue as the monument of the valour of a woman?

As a matter of fact, it is men much more than women who needed a war to redeem their reputation, and who have redeemed it. There was much more plausibility in the suspicion that the old torture of blood and iron would prove too much for a somewhat drugged and materialistic male population long estranged from it. I have always suspected that this doubt about manhood was the real sting in the strange sex quarrel, and the meaning of the new and nervous tattoo about the unhappiness of women. Man, like the Master Builder, was suspected by the female intelligence of having lost his nerve for climbing that dizzy battle-tower he had built in times gone by. In this the war did certainly straighten out the sex tangle; but it did also make clear on how terrible a thread of tenure we hold our privileges--and even our pleasures. For even bridge parties and champagne suppers take place on the top of that toppling war-tower; an hour can come when even a man who cared for nothing but bridge would have to defend it like Horatius; or when the man who only lives for champagne would have to die for champagne, as certainly as thousands of French soldiers have died for that flat land of vines; when he would have to fight as hard for the wine as Jeanne D'Arc for the oil of Rheims.

Just as civilization is guarded by potential war, so it is guarded by potential revolution. We ought never to indulge in either without extreme provocation; but we ought to be cured for ever of the fancy that extreme provocation is impossible. Against the tyrant within, as against the barbarian without, every voter should be a potential volunteer. "Thou goest with women, forget not thy whip," said the Prussian philosopher; and some such echo probably infected those who wanted a war to make them respect their wives and mothers. But there would really be a symbolic sense in saying, "Thou goest with men, forget not thy sword." Men coming to the council of the tribe should sheathe their swords, but not surrender them. Now I am not going to talk about Female Suffrage at this time of day; but these were the elements upon which a fair and sane opposition to it were founded. These are the risks of real politics; and the woman was not called upon to run such a risk, for the very simple reason that she was already running another risk. It was not laws that fixed her in the family; it was the very nature of the family. If the family was a fact in any very full sense, and if popular rule was also a fact in any very full sense, it was simply physically impossible for the woman to play the same part in such politics as the man. The difficulty was only evaded because the democracy was not a free democracy or the family not a free family. But whether this view was right or wrong, it is at least clear that the only honourable basis for any limitations of womanhood is the same as the basis of the respect for womanhood. It consisted in certain realities, which it may be undesirable to discuss, but is certainly even more undesirable to ignore. And my complaint against the more fussy Feminists (so called from their detestation of everything feminine) is that they do ignore these realities. I do not even propose the alternative of discussing them; on that point I am myself content to be what some call conventional, and others, civilized. I do not in the least demand that anyone should accept my own deduction from them; and I do not care a brass farthing what deduction anybody accepts about such a rag as modern ballot paper. But I do suggest that the peril with which one half of humanity is perpetually at war should be at least present in the minds of those who are perpetually bragging about breaking conventions, rending veils, and violating antiquated taboos. And, in nine cases out of ten, it seems to be quite absent from their minds. The mere fact of using the argument before mentioned, of women's strength vindicated by war work, shows that it is absent from their minds.
If this oddity of the new obscurantism means, rather, that women have shown the moral courage and mental capacity needed for important concerns, I am equally unable to summon up any surprise at the revelation. Nothing can well be more important than our own souls and bodies; and they, at their most delicate and determining period, are almost always and almost entirely confided to women. Those who have been appointed as educational experts in every age are not surely a new order of priestesses? If it means that in a historic crisis all kinds of people must do all kinds of work, and that women are the more to be admired for doing work to which they are unaccustomed, or even unsuited, it is a point which I should quite as easily concede. But if it means that in planning the foundations of a future society we should ignore the one eternal and incurable contrast in humanity; if it means that we may now go ahead gaily as if there were really no difference at all; if it means, as I read in a magazine to-day, and as almost anyone may now read almost anywhere, that if such and such work is bad for women it must be bad for men; if it means that patriotic women in munition factories prove that any women can be happy in any factories; if, in short, it means that the huge and primeval facts of the family no longer block the way to a mere social assimilation and regimentation-- then I say that the prospect is not one of liberty but of perpetuation of the dreariest sort of humbug. It is not emancipation, it is not even anarchy; it is simply prudery in the thoughts. It means that we have Bowdlerized our brains as well as our books. It is every bit as senseless a surrender to a superstitious decorum as it would be to force every

Friday, April 3, 2015

Prayer to Christ Crucified - Pius XII

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Papa Pio XII Sito ufficiale della Causa di Canonizzazione

To Jesus on the cross – Venerable Pio XII

dopo il restauro, il volto del Cristo, Benedetto da Maiano, antecedente il 1497, courtesy Opera di Santa maria del Fiore, foto Antonio Quattrone-3O Jesus crucified,
you have deified human nature,
assuming it for yourself;
after having preached justice, charity, kindness,
and making the rich and the powerful
a force for the poor and the weak,
you gave
 salvation to the world
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with your passion and death;
look down with love on your people,
who bow down at your feet
in a spirit of penance
invoking your forgiveness not
only for themselves,
but also for the many troubled who
would remove your crown and desecrate you
by the pride of their intelligence
and the lust of their passions.
Save us, Lord, we are drowning!
Walk back on the waves of
the troubled seas of our soul;
be our companion in life and in death;
be our judge full of pity.
The thunderbolts of deserved punishment
give way to a generous, new effusion
of your mercy on redeemed humanity.
Extinguish hatred; inflame love;
with the powerful breath
of your Spirit burn off
the thoughts and desires of domination, destruction and war.
Give bread to the little ones,
homes to the homeless,

work to the unemployed, peace to the nations throughout the world,
and the prize of eternal bliss to us all.


Amen