Saturday, February 25, 2012

America

"Catholics need to wake up from the illusion that the America we now live in – not the America of our nostalgia or imagination or best ideals, but the real America we live in here and now – is somehow friendly to our faith". Abp Chaput

Votes

America has gone from “one propertied man, one vote; to one man, one vote; to one person, one vote; trending to one dollar, one vote.”

Liturgists

Christopher Derrick's definition of a liturgist:

A man sent by God so that in times when there is no direct persecution, the people of God may not be denied the opportunity of suffering for their faith.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Msgr. Knox

“When suave politeness, tempering bigot zeal, corrected ‘I believe’ to ‘one does feel.’”

Monday, February 13, 2012

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Hitler on the Vichy clergy

Hitler on Vichy Catholics:

“Do you really believe the masses will ever be Christian again? Nonsense. The tale is finished but we can hasten matters. The parsons will be made to dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable little jobs and incomes.”

Saturday, February 4, 2012

U.S. Bishops

"For generations, many Bishops of the U.S. have been partners, cheerleaders, and enablers of the soft tyranny of big government now turned hard".

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Dancing with wolves

The U.S. Catholic bishops have finally awakened to the fact that their "cotillion" with President Obama...